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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

Synchronizing Dynamics AX contacts with Outlook


After you have linked Dynamics AX with Outlook and then selected the contacts that you want to synchronize, getting the contacts over to Outlook is as simple as starting the synchronization process. This recipe will show how to start the synchronization task.

How to do it...

To synchronize Dynamics AX contacts with Outlook, follow these steps:

  1. From the Home area page, open up the Synchronize menu item in the Microsoft Outlook synchronization folder of the Periodic group.

  2. In the dialog box for synchronization, you can choose if you want to synchronize the contacts, tasks, and appointments. For this recipe we will synchronize everything:

  3. After clicking on the OK button, Dynamics AX will process the updates and then you will be done.

How it works...

After running the synchronization process, all of your flagged contacts, new appointments, and new tasks will be transferred to your profile in Outlook including name, company, physical addresses, e-mail...