Dear Friends,
Wish you all a Very Happy New Year and Hope you had a rocking start to
2016!
A few
weeks ago, I posted the steps to provision a Dynamics AX 7 Environment on Azure here.
Few days
back, I got a chance to explore the new AX 7 Virtual Machine and thought
to share some interesting findings with you.
AX 7 Virtual Machine Configuration:
It's a pretty powerful machine built on Windows Server 2012 64-bit
having 56GB RAM and running on 8 cores.
Key Tools/Software included in the box:
Visual
Studio 2015 (for AX Development)
SQL
Server 2016
Office
2013
Dynamics AX Server Configuration:
Things
have changed on how the AOS Server Configuration is managed. In previous
versions of AX, AOS Service was managed as a windows service and we had a
Server Configuration Utility under Control Panel to configure and manage AOS
instances.
Now with
AX 7, All AOS Configurations are stored
in IIS
Location of AX 7 packages, source code, and other
AOS configurations:
On a Dynamics ‘AX 7’ VM, you can find most of the Dynamics ‘AX 7’
application configuration by opening the web.config file of the AOS Web
app.
- Open Internet
Information Service (IIS).
- Go to Sites > AOSService.
- Right-click
and select Explore, this will open File explorer.
- Find the web.config file
and open it in Notepad (or another text editor).
Web config Path inside Virtual Machine - I:\AosService\WebRoot\web.config
The following keys are of interest to many developers and administrators:
Aos.MetadataDirectory – This key points to the location of the ‘AX 7’ packages folder that contains ‘AX 7’ platform and application binaries as well as source code (Source code is only available on development environments.)
Path to packages in the VM - I:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory.
Aos.AppRoot – This key points to the root folder of the AOS web application.
DataAccess.Database – This key holds the name of the Dynamics AX 7 database.
Infrastructure.HostURL - This key holds the Host URL for AX 7
Restarting AOS Web App
If you simply want to restart the AOS (without redeploying), run iisreset from an Administrator
command prompt or restart the AosService
Web App from Internet Information Services (IIS).
Thank you a lot for this introduction into the new Dynamics AX 7 Virtual Machine, the explanations you give always are very clear, I like it :) Also the Dynamics AX Server Configuration was very useful for me.
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