Dear Friends,
Greetings and Wish you all Happy New Year!
Hope you had a great start!
In this blog post, I will be sharing my
experience on upgrading CU8 to my existing AX 2012 R3 environments. I had to
upgrade on 6 environments and let me tell you the installation experience of
CU8 is quite different from my previous experiences with AX versions and there’s
a set of things you would need to complete.
Based on the installation guide and other
technet articles I have prepared my own steps which helped me to install in multiple environments, Thought to share with you below:
1.
Backup AX2012 R3 Model and Prod
database
2.
For a test upgrade, you can Restore to
a copy of both model and prod database
3.
After restore, Check permissions to
see if the aos service account is mapped rightly to the restored database
4.
Install new aos pointing to the
restored database
5.
Change system service accounts in AX
6.
Change Server configuration , Batch
Server so that it points to the new AOS
7.
Refresh WCF Config from client
(Generate a new one if prompted to)
8.
Export the newly configured axc file
9.
Go to Lifecycle Services -> Create
a new project for the environment you are planning to upgrade CU8
Tip - Make sure
you enable Active scripting in your IE Settings in-order to work with the new
Lifecycle Services Dashboard
a.
Open
Internet Explorer, click the "Tool" button in the menu bar, select
the "Internet Options" button and then select the
"Security" tab
b.
Select the "Internet" area, select
"Custom Level" and go to the "Security Settings - Internet
Zone" box.
c.
Click
the checkbox to enable "Active Scripting" under the Scripting section
and then click the OK button to apply the settings.
d.
Restart
your browser when finished to apply the settings and enable JavaScript
10. Download the installer package from System
Diagnostic menu in LCS
11. Run the installer on AOS box
12. Create a new certificate via the wizard
13. Upload the certificate in LCS
14. I used the aos service account below here
15.
16. Once installed, Run the LCS Diagnostic tool to
discover the environment which we need to upgrade
17. Run Discover environment wizard to discover the environments
19. Upload the environment to LCS
20. Now go to System diagnostic in LCS -> Click on update button
18.
21.
Use option 1 that is update installer
for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 if you already have AX 2012 R3 installed
22.
Verify that you have appropriate permissions.
To run the Update installer, you must have administrator rights on the local
computer and System Administrator rights in Microsoft Dynamics AX.
23.
To install application hotfixes, you
must have the following additional rights in Microsoft SQL Server:
-
You are a member of the Securityadmin
server role on the SQL Server instance.
-
You are assigned to the db_owner role
in the model database.
24.
Run AXupdate.exe
Tip – Suggest you to save the package
(axupdate.exe) and hence need not go through the download option again and
again.
25. Run Axupdate.exe and update the binary and
application fixes
26. While doing the binary updates, if you
encounter the below CLR error for SQL Server 2012, make sure you download it
from the below website
27. Also you would need to install Report Viewer
Control as it’s one of the pre-requisite for Binary Updates
28. Run Intitialize-AXModelStore \
PS C:\Windows\system32>
Initialize-AXModelStore -Database <DatabaseName> -Se
rver <ServerName>
Model store schema successfully
created.
29. Restart AOS
30. Run the software update checklist from AX
31. Do Full compile via axbuild.exe (Will save you
some time!)
32. Make sure to check the AX Log and fix all compilation errors before you head on to the
next step
33. Do CIL Compile
34. Resolve the compilation errors before running
data upgrade
35. Run through data upgrade checklist
36. Run the axupdate.exe on the report server as
well to update report components
Appendix
Axbuild.exe (syntax below)
C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\Server\AX2012PROD\bin>axbuild.exe xppcompileall
/s=02 /altbin="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\Client\Bin"
If you are getting CIL Compile Errors, that
means go and check the normal Compile App log, and fix all the errors which you
find there and then do a CIL Compile again to make it success
SSRS
Upgrade
To upgrade SSRS components of AX, Run
AXupdate.exe from the SSRS instance box
Client
Upgrade
To upgrade Client components and Office
Add-in, run axupdate.exe from where the client is installed.
For me, the office-add ins were not getting successfully
installed at the first time and hence my client installation was not
successful, and in order to fix it, I had to uninstall the previous R3 client,
reboot the system, make sure the client/bin folder is not there, reinstall R3
client and then run axupdate.exe – this time it was successful
AIF
Upgrade
If AIF and IIS are on different boxes, then
make sure to run axupdate.exe from that box
Install
Visual Studio 2013 Developer tools
In order to install VS 2013, you would need to
first uninstall VS 2010 developer components by running AX2012 R3
Setup/installer and then reboot and install VS 2013 Developer tools. (Before
installing VS 2013 Developer tools, you need to have full VS 2013 Installed –
In my case, I have premium version of VS 2013)
To uninstall VS 2010 Developer tools Run Dynamics
AX 2012 R3 Installer > remove component
