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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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

About the Reviewers

Harish Mohanbabu has over 12 years of consulting experience in a variety of roles including developer, lead developer, design authority, and technical architect in Dynamics AX and Microsoft technologies. He was nominated as a Microsoft MVP in recognition of his contribution to the Dynamics AX community. He is also the technical editor of two books on Dynamics AX, including PacktPub's 'Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Programming: Getting started'. Harish lives in Hertfordshire, England with his wife, Chelvy and their two children, Swetha and Rahul. He can be contacted via his web sites, www.harishm.com, www.harish-m.livejournal.com and you can follow his tweets on www.twitter.com/HarishM.

Mohammed Rasheed is a Solutions Architect at Junction Solutions UK (www.Junctionsolutions.co.uk) where he is responsible for the delivery of integrations and customizations on Dynamics AX. Junction Solutions are the most exciting Microsoft Dynamics AX Partner for retail, with over 40 successful implementations across the world and a retail solution that has been certified by Microsoft for quality. Junction Solutions' innovative multi-channel retail software was built on Dynamics AX to resolve the unique challenges of 21st century retailers, who trade across many channels including stores, web online, mail order, franchise, wholesale, and direct sales. Junction Solutions bring these channels together and provide modern retailers with a holistic view of their business, enabling them to develop new revenue opportunities, drive better customer service, and deliver improved profitability.

Junction Solutions was also named The Microsoft Dynamics Retail Partner of the Year in the 2010 Microsoft Partner Awards. Mohammed has a double masters in Dynamics AX with over 8 certifications on Dynamics AX. Though his strengths are rooted in x++ development, he is a highly regarded Generalist and has solid knowledge of both functional and technical aspects of Dynamics AX. His passion for development is evident in the fact that he takes pleasure from refactoring and optimizing x++ code.

Mohammed lives with his family in Chester(UK)and blogs on his website: www.dynamic-ax.co.uk.

Dick Wenning has studied Computer Science in the Netherlands. After completing his education he has developed software for the medical, local government and telecom industries.

Dick started working in 2001 for Navision Netherlands, where he was giving technical training and managing escalations at partner support. He became a member of the localisation team of Dynamics AX when Navision became part of Microsoft.

His career continued for a short period at Watermark and for the last few years Dick has been working for Crimsonwing Promentum, where he's part of a skilled team responsible for ramping up Partners on Dynamics AX. Dick specialized himself in performance and integration with Dynamics AX and he's frequently asked to consult partners and also Microsoft in Europe.

In his spare time, Dick is running his blog axstart.spaces.live.com and is a frequent speaker at technical seminars in Western Europe; this commitment has been recognized and rewarded by Microsoft with the MVP award. Dick is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) for Dynamics AX development and installation.

Beside these activities on AX, Dick is married with Inge and has two kids, Marleen and Ruben. Dick is also a regular chess and tennis player, and you can challenge him on playchess.com.