Imagine the scene at AXUG last year. The place is flocked with dedicated Dynamics enthusiasts and the hottest question of all is about when will Dynamics Operations be offered on premise. Now, imagine that a Microsoft Representative gets up and explains that there will be no on premise version and to get used to it.…
Like many Senior Dynamics Architects, I spend countless hours testing and refining new architectural patterns before ever touching an assignment. I don’t write about most of the stuff that I create, but I recently made a fully functional Hybrid/On-Premise version of Dynamics Operations. I’m testing it out to see if I will ever be able…
Just finished one of those marathon weekends that every person whose job involves Support dreads.. You know, the one where you cancel all your great weekend plans because something unexpected and bad happened. Such was the case when a client of mine innocently downloaded the new version of the tax engine, tested it, and then…
Disclaimer: This series contains tips and tricks that I will introduce, which are not officially supported by Microsoft and are mine alone. That being said, I’ve had the time to notice some very interesting repeating patterns with Dynamics Operations deployments. To ensure that we understand how to get the most out of our Dynamics Operation…
I believe and preach best practices when it comes to performance tuning… However, sometimes, the fire is hot and we are experiencing some extreme pressure to get performance done quickly. So, we have to get practical fast and do something to help out quickly while buying time to truly fix the implementation. In this series,…
Uh oh.. I was recently contacted with an ‘SOS’ for a severe case of AX 7 blues. In this case, everything was extremely slow. Let’s walk through the issue and how to fix it. Case: A new AX7 implementation reported general slowness all around, not just in one form but multiple forms. Also, the slowness…
Just how fast can you can get reports and dashboards out with Power BI for free? Taking a real-life example from a recent implementation, we walk through a Power BI Case Study for Customer Aging. There are lots of questions from real-life implementations as this is from our fellow AX enthusiasts at the New York AXUG. The…
Let’s look at the most commonly misdiagnosed cause of poor SQL performance from my end. Years of experience and lots of implementations have taught me that the toughest part of being a Technical Architect is speaking up. One of the worst things you have to do as a Senior Technical Architect is warn a happy…
Common notion is that a good MRP run can complete in about 3 and half hours for a big organization. But have you ever wondered about that? Just how fast could Master Planning go if it really got some performance tuning – I mean the nonstandard stuff that isn’t documented? It took years, but I…
I thought I would write something a little different today. The two largest indicators which tell us that Master Planning is in need of some “lovin” and tuning are performance and accuracy problems. I don’t care how big the implementation is. I’ve yet to see a case where a full planning run can’t be finished…