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Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook

By : Murray Fife
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Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook

By: Murray Fife

Overview of this book

Dynamics AX is built on a number of foundation products from Microsoft that are used to make it bigger, better, and stronger than the average business system. Taking advantage of these products will make your life easier. Use these tools to maximize the efficiency of your business management, taking advantage of a powerful and centralized tool set. "Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook" will show you how to use tools that you already have to extend out Dynamics AX and discover potential new directions. You will be surprised at what you can do on a shoestring budget. The book will allow you to streamline your work processes, and use the system's powerful and centralised features to the advantage of your organization. "Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook" will show you how to maximize the potential of Dynamics AX with common and popular tools to enhance your business management systems. We will begin by exploring how to extend Dynamics AX out with SharePoint. After this, the book will guide you through important elements in maximizing business management efficiency, focusing on key aspects like reports, dashboards, and workflows. The book will then finish by teaching you how to customize your management systems, achieving a comprehensive coverage of the most important extension processes relevant to you and your business with very little programming. This is a book for those of you that want to make the most out of Dynamics AX by using what you already have, and without breaking the bank.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding login accounts for customers in Active Directory


In order for an external user to log in and access the Dynamics AX self-service portals, they need to have a username and password. This Active Directory account is used to authenticate the user in SharePoint and can be linked to a Dynamics AX user account, so that we are able to configure them as a valid external user.

In this recipe, we will walk you through the steps required to create the Active Directory user account.

Getting ready

Before you start this recipe, you will want to make sure that you have access to the server that manages your Active Directory configuration. If you don't have access, you may want to contact your system administrator to get access, or have them help you with this step.

How to do it...

To add a new login account for a customer in Active Directory, follow these steps:

  1. From within the server that manages your Active Directory accounts, open up the Active Directory Users and Computers administration console from...