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…
For those of you who attended my recent presentation in New York with Computer Futures and Microsoft, you may have remembered me promising that I would write a tutorial or two demonstrating how to hook the powerful GL into all the reporting goodies we talked about. Consider this part 1 of my promise to my…
Sometimes big things happen which get little press or coverage, such as the case with the move to the file based code deployment in our newest version of AX. In this post, we’ll look at some real-world, but currently undocumented ways, to truly utilize the new changes towards efficient best practice, continuous improvement code methodology.…