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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Administration

By : Marco Carvalho , Marco Carvalho
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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Administration

By: Marco Carvalho , Marco Carvalho

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 is an advanced Enterprise Resource Planning system, essentially a comprehensive business management solution, designed for midsize and large organizations. Dynamics AX provides a centralized source for business data and enables you to consolidate and standardize your business processes, helping to improve productivity and provide visibility across your organization, for a variety of business needs.This book will enable you to successfully set up and configure Dynamics AX 2009 in your business with clear, practical, step-by-step demonstrations. You will learn how to plan and implement Dynamics AX 2009 efficiently, how to manage the Enterprise Portal, Role Centers, Kerberos Authentication, Workflow, Application Integration Framework (AIF), and much more! Each chapter of the book explores the different aspects of administring and configuring Dynamics AX 2009 to fit any company's needs.The book begins by introducing you to the important process of planning and implementing Dynamics AX 2009, providing the basic components to get you started with your Dynamics AX environment. It then dives deep into the installation of the multi component server of Dynamics AX and how to get it up and running efficiently, specifically the Base Server Components, Enterprise Portal, Role Centers, Kerberos Authentication, Workflow, and the Application Integration Framework (AIF).Other content includes the process of importing data into your Dynamics AX 2009 instance, common user administration functions, and Alerts and Notifications.Finally, the book considers how to enhance your Dynamics AX environment after it has been installed and it is being utilized, from tuning your system to work more efficiently to backing up and maintaining Dynamics AX to make sure you are prepared for worst-case scenarios, enabling you to keep Dynamics AX 2009 functioning at its best.By following the clear and practical steps found in the book, you will successfully master how to administer and configure Dynamics AX 2009 into your company.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Security requirements


Dynamics AX contains server base and extended components, which have unique security prerequisites and requirements. Before installing any of the server bases or extended components, it is necessary to understand the function that each component has to successfully determine the appropriate security settings. Dynamics AX utilizes other Microsoft server technologies such as Internet Information Services (IIS), SharePoint Server, and SQL Server, just to name a few. For more detailed information on setting up the security settings on each Microsoft technology used by Dynamics AX components, consult their individual security documentation. The following tables in this section contain the security requirements for each component.

Security requirements for the base server components

Dynamics AX exists as three base server components, the AOS, database, and application files. In order to properly run and access Dynamics AX, all three must be set up in harmony. For example, not...