Dynamics AX 2012 Beta available for Download from PartnerSource

Thanks for sharing this link...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukax/archive/2011/04/12/dynamics-ax-2012-beta-download-now-available-on-partnersource.aspx

Contd...Scaling out AIF Services via Virtual IP Load Balancer

As promised, I'm back blogging and I will cover this post on the AIF Load Balancer Issue which I was able to sort just a couple of days before we went LIVE.

Couple of weeks back, I had posted the issue about AIF Load Balancer here - http://daxdilip.blogspot.com/2011/02/question-how-to-scale-out-aif.html



Following are the sequence of steps carried out to make it work:

a.    Had to reinstall Business Connector on the AOS boxes

b.    The AX Client Configuration on all the 6 AOS Servers had to be modified

c.    IIS Authentication for Default Website and Microsoft Dynamics AX AIF Websites had to be Enabled.

d.    Registry on each of the boxes had to be verified to make sure it points to the correct AX Config

e.    Initially for testing the services on each of the box, added business connector setting manually to web.config for Dynamics AX AIF Web Services

f.    Dynamics AX AIF Shares on some of the boxes were not properly configured. Had to correct it

g.    Tested the services from each of the 6 AOS/AIF boxes

Once the services were up and running and tested successfully from each of the 6 AOS boxes, then the Load Balancer automatically worked without any issues. From the whole exercise, I can tell now that the Load Balancer initially was failing because out of the 6 AOS boxes, just one of them was working and 5 of them were having issues. 

Voting has already kicked off for 2011 Top 100 Most Influential People

The Voting stage for 2011 Top 100 Most Influential People in Dynamics World has kicked off couple of weeks ago.

One can navigate here to find the Poll Links http://www.dynamicsworld.co.uk/2011Voting.php. Also, there's a section of the 2011 nominees and past year's list. So, now is the time to vote for the people whom you think have a profound impact on Dynamics Community.

I'm on Poll 3 http://www.micropoll.com/a/mpview/1068215-406003

Project M-AX gone Live!!

Finally, after several super super busy weeks and long hours, we went live successfully. Had some issues with integration and data loads but finally we are a week into production and there are still some challenges ahead but hopefully we should be able to get over it in a short period of time. Watch out for this space for some interesting posts on AIF Loadbalancer, Enterprise Portal tips.