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Extending Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Cookbook

By : Murray Fife
Book Image

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

Introduction


Chances are you are already using Microsoft Outlook for your e-mail and contact management, and hopefully you are also using Lync within the organization for messaging and communication. So why not configure Dynamics AX to use them as well so that you can be even more productive?

Dynamics AX allows you to link your user account with your Outlook client. Once you have done this, you are able to synchronize Dynamics AX contacts, tasks, and appointments with Outlook. This means that all this information will now be available on your desktop, tablet, and also your smartphone for the times that you are disconnected from Dynamics AX. You can then take advantage of tools such as the Outlook Social Connector to see what your Dynamics AX contacts are up to on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Microsoft Live. And if you want to send your contacts an e-mail through Outlook, then you can initiate it directly from the Dynamics AX client.

The Lync integration connects you as well, but this time with...