From CrunchGear moments ago, reports of a new virus are coming out just this morning. The virus seems to imbed a URL redirect to a phishing site.

The site apparently installs Antivirus 2009, which is malware. We’ll pull our most recent YouTube embeds, but be careful because this one appears to have just broken out today. If you find yourself being automatically redirected or experience other weird pop-ups, especially for something called Antivirus 2009, don’t click on anything.

Keep an eye out for more info/patches/etc on this.

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“Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Programming Unleashed”

“Dynamics AX 5.0 is the latest release of Microsoft’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution. Dynamics AX is one of the fastest growing products within the Microsoft product line; Microsoft has publicly predicted that Dynamics will be their next billion dollar a year product suite. Dynamics directly competes with SAP and Oracle and has steadily gained market share, especially in mid-sized accounts. This book offers .NET developers unique insight to leveraging their Microsoft programming skills to extend Microsoft Dynamics AX 5.0. This information is sorely needed by the marketplace. The few books on Dynamics AX cover topics of interest to System Administrators, and have little of any depth of coverage needed by developers. As more and more organizations use Dynamics AX, they will need their developers to customize it, modify it, extend it, integrate it with their legacy apps, etc. There is little information even online about how to do this. John Bourgeois is an accomplished technical instructor at Avanade, and has unsurpassed experience leading implementations of Dynamics AX at major corporations.”

I haven’t gotten my hands on it yet, since it is for the 2009 version, however I have heard great pre-reviews about it.

For the previous version which is still being implemented:

“Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0″ – it looks like you can pick it up for pretty cheap used these days.

“Dive deep in to the architectural details of Microsoft Dynamics AX to make relationships clear and development tasks easier. The first part of the book is aimed at consultants and developers who are new to Microsoft Dynamics AX but have backgrounds in business application development using traditional languages, frameworks, and tools. It describes the architecture and development environment and explains key application frameworks that developers need for their customization, extension, and integration projects. The second part of the book is a reference guide for developers who work with Microsoft Dynamics AX deployments, with information on developing new functionality and supporting users. It covers more complex development concepts such as advanced forms and reports, reflection over the application metadata, performance, upgrades, migration, and setup. This is the first book written by the Microsoft product group architects and the first to take developers deep inside Microsoft Dynamics AX.”

Dilbert - this is a given for the office geek.  Just subscribe to the RSS feed.

XKCD - some are better than others, but as a whole dang good entertainment

Bugbash - Worked as a vendor at Microsoft for a little while, this comic was on the internal MS newsletter, and now also on this guys site.

Abstruse Goose - ok, a bit dry at times though

GraphJam: Pop culture for people in cubicles.

Cross-Posted on Supergeekblog.com

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The community page has been significantly redone. I apparently haven’t checked it out in a while, but it looks pretty snappy. If you haven’t seen it, or are looking for another place to network with DAX folks – check it out!

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PartnerSource Link

 Overview

Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Service Pack 2 includes:

~Support for 15 different document AXDs in the Application Integration Framework.
~Updates and bug fixes to functionality shipped in Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Service Pack 1.  Changes include areas such as Financials, BI & Reporting, Client, Cost Accounting, Customer Relationship Management, Developer & Partner Productivity Tools, Enterprise Portal, Inventory Management, Manufacturing, Master Resource Planning, Product Builder, Project Accounting, Application Object Server, and Shop Floor Control.
~Several fixes focused on stabilizing the Client and Application Object Server.  This was a main focus for SP2.

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***I have found out though that this offer is only open to UK Partners.***

 

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 12:42 PM by jpalmer

HP Laptop Offer

Over the last few months, I’ve been working with my colleagues at HP to get an offer together for partners to purchase the special Microsoft laptop specification that we can obtain internally. The offer is now launched and is available to all Microsoft Certified and Gold Certified Partners. As this is public domain, I can’t disclose the price, but it’s a great offer. Please give the chaps at HP a call to find out more information.

Microsoft and HP have joined to give you all the perfect solution to demonstrate Microsoft products and technologies, including Microsoft Dynamics. This offer is exclusive to Microsoft Certified and Gold Certified Partners.

This solutions will truly show the value of our solution and impress on all levels. This is laptop is used by our Partner Technology Specialists and is ideal for running Virtual PCs.

The model to be used is the “What Laptop Gold Award” nc8430. The specification includes Windows Vista pre-installed, 4GB of RAM and the high performing Intel Core 2 Duo T7400. This model is only available by contacting HP directly see below for the direct contact details. Please make sure that upon contacting HP you mention the Microsoft / HP Dynamic notebook configuration.

So to find out more on the specification and price please contact:

David McEwan (david.mcewan@hp.com) 0141 342 6535

or

Neil Wightman (neil.wightman@hp.com) 0141 342 6333

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It should be interesting having full versions of SQL server coming out as opposed to service pack upgrades.

Here is the link to the article.

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Once again it was one of the products that really caught my eye.  I am sure many are familiar with the Crystal line and this is the newest revision of it.

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Tabax v 0.3

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After the long period of beta stage, the new release of Tabax is out.
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This release introduces several new features which will be very useful for developers and end-users

First of all, it works under version 4 of Dynamics Ax.

Second, it introduces the Tabax Plugin API which allows developers to increase functionality of Tabax sufficiently.

There is a plugin for Tabax (in the tabax archive) to integrate AxPath with your system: so, if you install this plugin, you can click on AxPath links in browsers and email clients and go to specific location in code or specific record in the database (thank to AndyD for this functionality).

Ivan Kashperuk has developed a great plugin named RecentWindows which I use heavily. If you close some window, it allows to reopen it quickly.

Also, Ivan added a very useful feature to Tabax: if You press the ‘Edit current field’ toolbar button, while holding Ctrl and Shift down, Tabax will open a table field or data method related to the currently selected form field.

I have added similar functionality to the ‘cross references’ button – now You can press it while working with form, and you will see cross references for the field related to the active control.

There are also some minor bugfixes and enhancements in this release

640-863 is next to impossible for students attempting to go for 70-293 as well as 70-536 in the same go. However with testking you can prepare in a better way.This holds true for 220-602 as well.

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