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If you’re in an e-commerce business, the
recession is over. Online shopping figures have been consistently rising over
the last decade reaching 8% of all retail sales in America and Asia, Europe is
at 5%.¹ The Internet Retailer Online Retail Index of 25 e-commerce
stocks on NASDAQ from 2009 to 2010 have soared up 91%. 2011 is going to be the
transition for online retail from toddler to teen – the internet is maturing.

And what makes 2011 different? Three things:
frugality, ease of use, and cloud computing are the driving forces will shape
the scenarios for e-commerce this year.

How can Microsoft Dynamics solution providers
play into this trend? What’s relevant in the realm of Dynamics, and ERP in general,
is the opportunity to enhance inte…

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This is in continuation with the previous posts on integrating Dynamics AX with Exchange Web Services without installing Outlook on your box. If you missed the previous posts, you can browse them from here:

http://daxdilip.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-read-email-and-download.html

http://daxdilip.blogspot.com/2010/12/updated-code-to-read-email-using-ews.html

Had this requirement to add multiple search criterias for filtering emails based on different subjects. For this, I had to use the SearchFilterCollection method to achieve it, below is the code snippet on how to achieve it. The code is pretty self explanatory as the SearchFilterCollection object can handle logical operators like Or, And etc. and you can pass multiple SearchFilters to it as shown here.

If you want to delve more indepth, you can read the MSDN article below: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd633695(EXCHG.80).aspx

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A small tip when you are working on Dynamics AX AIF Services running on VPC

A background – I have a very simple AIF .Net Client App which has been very handy for me to test AIF Services on any environment. This client app consumes the AIF Customer Service to create customer records in AX.

Issue

Recently, when I was trying to generate the proxy for one of the AIF Service which was running on a VPC I ran into this error below (Note the client app project was on my host machine and I was opening the VS project via the shared drive)
“Error creating the Web Proxy specified in the ‘system.net/defaultProxy’ configuration section.”

Solution

Copied the Visual Studio Client App Project into the VPC, Built it and re-generated the proxy for the service and now it works

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Dynamics AX Code Samples on MSDN, Just enter the search text “Dynamics AX” to do a search in the code gallery

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/ProjectDirectory.aspx?ProjectSearchText=Dynamics%20AX

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If you are a Microsoft Dynamics customer with an
e-commerce initiative, a visually appealing web site may be the least of your
worries. 

More daunting, often, are the constant demands to update
things like sales strategy, customer service, cloud services usage, XRM capabilities,
and ISV add-on solutions. 

And as many businesses now realize, if you’re doing e-commerce
correctly, then execution should probably be as straight forward as any other
sales channel by taking advantage of the latest capabilities of Microsoft and
its partners to make execution.

[Editor's
note: This piece is the first in an occasional series examining e-commerce strategies
and solutions for Microsoft Dynamics.]

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Bloom Avenue Chooses Ignify eCommerce
and Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP Solutions for its Online Business

Flower
retailer Bloom Avenue has selected Ignify eCommerce and Microsoft Dynamics AX to
power a new online storefront so visitors can order and ship flowers, plants
and gift baskets for any occasion around the country.

Features
of the online storefront include quick image views, pre-ordering for Valentine’s
Day and other holidays, specified delivery dates and order tracking
capabilities, according to the companies.

"We
chose Ignify because of its outstanding track record for improving the
usability experience for shoppers which is critical for repeat…

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Wishing you all my blog readers Merry Xmas and A Very Happy 2011.

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Introduction
QAS is a third party address verification service which gets the full address from a given postcode and street. You can find more details in their website
http://www.qas.co.uk/products/capture-name-and-address-data/pro.htm
We had to do integration for Australian Post Codes and Street Addresses. So, we were given the web service by QAS which we needed to plug in to AX

Integration with Dynamics AX 
a. Consume the QAS Web Service by going through Tools > Development Tools > Application Integration Framework > Add Service Reference
b. Once the Service Reference is added, write a class to instantiate the proxy and pass the zip code and street name
c. Here is a sample code snippet which does the call to QAS and retreives the full address

We are calling this class from different forms like Customers, Sales Orders, CRM wherever we need to validate address with QAS

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Issue

One of our AOS suddenly stopped working and it won’t restart any more. Learned that there was a database refresh the last night.

The error I found in event viewer was  Object Server 01: Internal Error occured executing stored procedure when creating session for the AOS (Screenshot below)

Solution

After some troubleshooting, found that the service account used by AOS somehow lost the db_owner rights on the database and the error above makes sense as the service account no longer can create the server and client sessions and hence it won’t start. After giving back the rights to the account, the service started without any issues. (Screenshot below for giving the service account rights to db_owner permissions via SSMS)

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Tectura UK and
ConsultCRM Form a Strategic Partnership

Tectura UK,
a subsidiary of global business consulting services company, Tectura Corp., has
formed a strategic partnership with ConsultCRM,
a provider of Microsoft Dynamics CRM consulting and systems integration
services.

ConsultCRM’s expertise in implementing Microsoft
Dynamics CRM solutions, combined with Tectura UK’s Microsoft Dynamics business
consulting experience and resources will provide the UK market with a team offering
simple to highly complex solutions and implementation services for Microsoft
Dynamics CRM and Microsoft Dynamics ERP, according to the companies.

"This exciting par…

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