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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 with Sure Step 2012

By : Keith Dunkinson, Andrew Birch
Book Image

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 with Sure Step 2012

By: Keith Dunkinson, Andrew Birch

Overview of this book

<p>Microsoft Dynamics AX is a comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for midsize and larger organizations that empowers people to work effectively, manage change, and compete globally. Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step is an implementation methodology, a toolset, and an application to help Dynamics partners (AX, CRM, NAV, GP, and SL) successfully implement their Dynamics solutions such as Dynamics AX.</p> <p>"Implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 with Sure Step 2012" will guide you through the Sure Step phases; from installing and setting up Sure Step, to working through the diagnostic and requirement phases, to harnessing the power of standard AX to make the most out of modifications, this book is a must for project managers and team members alike.<br /><br /><br />With detailed discussions of the diagnostic, analysis, design, development, deployment, and operation phases of the Sure Step Methodology, Implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 with Sure Step 2012 enables you to turn methodology into practicality with its real-life examples and helpful hints on applied aspects of AX implementations. It includes details of technical concepts that are important to understand and help you to effectively manage the project, as well as hints and tips based on real world experience that you won’t find in the standard Sure Step Methodology.<br /><br />Implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 with Sure Step 2012 will enhance your understanding of Sure Step Methodology as well as increase your knowledge of AX 2012 that will better equip you to manage and deliver your project.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 with Sure Step 2012
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing other environments


Now that we've created LIVE, it's time to create all our other environments from it. This is best done once the installation checklist has been completed in LIVE and following these basic steps:

Copying the LIVE database

Start by shutting down all the LIVE AOS servers. Some information is held in memory on the AOS servers, and is only written to the database once the AOS is shutdown.

Perform a full backup of the LIVE databases, the transactional and baseline DB (and in 2012 R2, the application DB), then restore it using the Restore File and File Groups option in SQL Management Studio. This will give you the option to specify a new database name and will ensure the files are created correctly. You can restore the same backup multiple times to create your environments.

Remember to stick to the naming convention, for example, CTO_DAX6_PRELIVE, CTO_DAX6_TEST, and CTO_DAX6_DEV.

The same procedure can be used for copying the LIVE database over the other environments on...