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Dynamics AX product-related topics for project-based businesses such as consulting, accounting, advertising, and construction.
Microsoft Exchange Server Integration in AX R3 CU8
One of the features added as a part of Dynamics AX 2012 R3 CU8 is integration with Microsoft...
Date: 12/02/2014
Bare Bones Configuration Guide for Dynamics AX Projects
If you are active in the Dynamics AX community, you probably have run into Murray Fife, a...
Date: 11/06/2014
Integrating Project Server and Project Online with Dynamics AX 2013 R3
Microsoft Project Server and Project Online provide rich project portfolio management (PPM)...
Date: 10/29/2014
Project Adjustment Improvements in AX R3 CU8
We have a few more small improvements for Dynamics AX 2012 project accounting coming in R3 CU8 (due...
Date: 09/22/2014
Straight Line Project Revenue Recognition in AX R3 CU8
In addition to (and compatible with) the new continuous revenue recognition that we are introducing...
Date: 09/10/2014
Continuous Project Revenue Recognition in AX R3 CU8
One of the requests that we have gotten over the last several years in Dynamics AX Project...
Date: 08/25/2014
Dynamics AX Project Online Help Survey
Our Information Experience is conducting a survey of users of the Project management and accounting...
Date: 08/05/2014
Project WBS in AX 2012 R3 White Paper
In addition to the set of R3 white papers that were published a few weeks ago, we have released a...
Date: 07/11/2014
New AX R3 Project E-Learning Courses
As you probably know, we recently released Dynamics AX 2012 R3 with new capabilities for...
Date: 07/08/2014
Business Process Library for Dynamics AX 2012 Professional Services
I am excited to announce the availability of the professional services process model as part of...
Date: 06/06/2014
New AX 2012 R3 Project White Papers
I'm happy to announce the availability of three new white papers covering new capabilities in...
Date: 05/29/2014
Estimate Calculation Methods for Fixed Price Projects
Some of the more observant of you may have noticed the Calculation method field on the fixed price...
Date: 05/19/2014
Independent Sub-project Budgeting in AX 2012 R3
One more feature in the budgeting area coming in Dynamics AX 2012 R3 is the ability to manage the...
Date: 02/14/2014
Project Effort and Cost Tracking Views in AX 2012 R3
In a previous post, I described some of the new features available for editing work break structures...
Date: 02/11/2014
Dynamics AX Workflow Processor Demo Shortcut
If you work with Dynamics AX, you are probably familiar with the Tutorial_WorkflowProcessor form....
Date: 02/11/2014
Intercompany Project Invoicing in AX 2012 R3 (Part 2)
In my last post, I showed you how to set up the new intercompany invoicing for projects feature in...
Date: 01/13/2014
More Project Budget Improvements in R3
As I mentioned before, we made some improvements to project budgeting in AX 2012 R2 CU6 and CU7....
Date: 12/16/2013
Project Contract List Page Improvements
In the upcoming AX 2012 R3 release, we are making a few improvements to the project contract list...
Date: 12/14/2013
AX Technical Conference Post-Event SI Training
Planning on coming to the Dynamics AX Technical Conference in Bellevue, WA on February 3-5, 2014? If...
Date: 11/26/2013
WBS Templates in Dynamics AX 2012 R2 CU7
Over the next few weeks, I'll be reviewing some of the improvements we made to Project management...
Date: 11/15/2013
Convergence EMEA Sessions available on Virtual Convergence
I just got back from Barcelona where I was attending Convergence EMEA. I presented two sessions,...
Date: 11/07/2013
Dynamics AX 2012 Cumulative Update 7 is released!
I'm very excited to announce that we have released Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Cumulative Update 7 (aka CU7)...
Date: 11/01/2013
New AX Companion App Blog
Some of my team members created a new blog to share pertinent information for Dynamics AX companion...
Date: 10/31/2013
Dynamics AX Project Management and Accounting Integration White Paper
We just finished a white paper available that provides an overview of the ways that the Project...
Date: 09/25/2013
Windows 8 Apps for Dynamics AX are live
In my last post, I introduced new Windows 8 applications for Microsoft Dynamics AX. Originally, we...
Date: 09/13/2013
Windows 8 Apps for Dynamics AX
Beautiful. Easy. Fun. When's the last time you used these words to describe your ERP system? For...
Date: 07/01/2013
Tweaks to Project Budget in AX 2012 R2 CU6
In the forthcoming Dynamics AX 2012 R2 CU6 release, we made a few tweaks to the project budgeting...
Date: 06/28/2013
Change to Project Ledger Posting Setup in AX 2012 R2 CU6
In the forthcoming AX 2012 R2 Cumulative Update 6 (which, oddly enough, will be the one after CU1),...
Date: 06/27/2013
PM@MS - Doing the "other stuff"
I've spent the last 17 years at Microsoft, the majority of my adult life. For most of those years,...
Date: 02/14/2013
Changing the Discussion
One of the most impressionable meetings that I have been involved in occurred early in my career at...
Date: 02/13/2013
The Vision Thing
Early in my career at Microsoft, I was part of one of the biggest development disasters at Microsoft...
Date: 02/11/2013
I'm back!
Hard to believe my last post was over 6 years ago. At the time, I was departing the SQL Server...
Date: 01/27/2013
Transmissions from the Satellite Heart (What's up with Report Builder?)
Hopefully, you have gotten a chance to work with the latest CTP of SQL Server 2008 Reporting...
Date: 12/11/2007
Tribal Thunder (SharePoint White Papers Available)
After many months of working on getting them posted, I'm excited to let you know that two...
Date: 12/11/2007
Everybody (Why Leave IIS?)
If you have gotten a chance to try an early build of SQL Server Reporting 2008 Reporting Services,...
Date: 12/04/2007
Younger Than Yesterday (ReportViewer in VS 2008)
As most of you probably know by now, Visual Studio 2008 is now available. What you might not have...
Date: 11/26/2007
Laser Guided Missiles (Report Localization through Parameters)
As localization is not a built-in feature for Reporting Services, people have tried a a variety of...
Date: 07/11/2007
Marquee Moon (Field References in Page Headers and Footers)
One of the questions that I get often is about putting database fields in their SSRS report page...
Date: 06/20/2007
Personal Best (The BI Survey)
Some of you may be familiar with Nigel Pendse’s OLAP Report. This year, the survey is broadening to...
Date: 06/16/2007
When I Was Born for the 7th Time (Thoughts from TechEd)
Last week I attended TechEd in Orlando, Florida. Here are my thoughts on the event. This year was...
Date: 06/16/2007
Perfect Prescription (OneNote is Really Cool)
I think that you might be surprised how long it takes people within Microsoft to adopt new software....
Date: 06/06/2007
Dreamy (Reporting Services at TechEd)
Unlike previous years, I decided not to attend the first day of TechEd. This means that I missed...
Date: 06/04/2007
Tago Mago (New Version of Radius)
I wanted to give some props to my friends at 90 Degree Software (Vancouver, Canada) on the latest...
Date: 06/03/2007
At the End of Paths Taken (Modifying Where Clause when All Parameter Values are Selected)
With the return of “Select All” in Service Pack 2, all multi-value parameters allow the user to pick...
Date: 05/19/2007
Sky Blue Sky (MS BI Conference Notes)
Wow, what a show! I spent this week recovering from the first ever Microsoft Business Intelligence...
Date: 05/19/2007
Watusi (SSRS Management Tools Changes for Katmai)
For Katmai we are considering the removal of namespace management (folders, reports, data sources,...
Date: 04/24/2007