Troubleshooting Dynamics AX 2009 SSRS Report Generation Error

None of the SSRS reports were rendering correctly. This was working well before the Xmas break.

Error:

An error has occurred during report processing.
The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040) 

Solution:

As you see from the error above, it's not much helpful and sort of misleading as I thought it could be the SSRS components which got installed in GAC may have got corrupted. After some troubleshooting, found that the Validate button on Administration > Setup > Reporting Services > Reporting Servers was not validating the datasource folder properly. Then, performed the following steps to rectify it.

a. Recreated the reporting data source and folder and now the Validate button started functioning without any issues.

b. Restarted SSRS Service from the Control Panel > Services window (As without restarting I was getting the same dll error) to make it work.

Top ERP Predictions for 2011 - Cloud hosting and Dynamics ERP start making serious waves!

I read with interest this article on the Top ERP Predictions for 2011 put across by industry experts.


Highlighting few of the key interesting points from the above link:

a. The first and most interesting part of the reading which made me excited is put up in the last para which talks about Microsoft Dynamics ERP coming out in full force in 2011.
Some interesting quotes out there:

"Today, every dollar of Dynamics generates from $3 to $9 in additional software sales for Microsoft. Now that's what I call a stack sale."


In addition, the Dynamics channel has a good handle on Microsoft's strategy for Azure, its cloud platform, according to Greenbaum.

"It's clear that the value-add of Azure has to be about driving innovation into the enterprise, and that's not something the average Office or Windows developer really gets. But Dynamics partners live and breath this concept every day," he wrote.

Dynamics itself will help Azure grow and innovate,

Greenbaum contends. "While SQL Server, Sharepoint, Communications Server, Windows Server, and other pieces of the stack will have a big play in Azure, the customer working in that innovative new Azure app will most likely be directly interfacing a piece of AX, or Dynamics CRM. That makes Dynamics essential to Azure, and vice versa."


b. In 2011, more and more customers would be demanding cloud-based ERP solutions. Many vendors already offer specialized forms of cloud hosting such as managed cloud hosting and hybrid cloud hosting. Because of demand, competition amongst vendors in the hosting space is expected to increase with some of them re-engineering their products from the ground up to take full advantage of cloud based computing

c. In 2011, the market will be flooded by social-themed ERP product tweaks, integrations and innovations, like somewhere I read already Dynamics CRM has built an accelerator to intergrate Twitter, I think very soon we will see integrations with Twitter, Facebook, Linked in etc. with Dynamics ERP suite.

d. Mobility which is one of my favorite topic seems to show some very interesting statistics as the number of downloaded mobile applications will leap from 10.9 billion this year to 76.9 billion in 2014, and revenue will experience a greater than 60 percent compound annual growth rate in the next several years, topping $35 billion in 2014. So I believe vendors or companies who provides mobile enablement of key ERP services will have a major share in the market.

Here is the Link to Reference article from PC World http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/214419/top_erp_predictions_for_2011.html

Contd..How to Add multiple Search Criteria using EWS

This is in continuation with the previous posts on integrating Dynamics AX with Exchange Web Services without installing Outlook on your box. If you missed the previous posts, you can browse them from here:

http://daxdilip.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-read-email-and-download.html

http://daxdilip.blogspot.com/2010/12/updated-code-to-read-email-using-ews.html


Had this requirement to add multiple search criterias for filtering emails based on different subjects. For this, I had to use the SearchFilterCollection method to achieve it, below is the code snippet on how to achieve it. The code is pretty self explanatory as the SearchFilterCollection object can handle logical operators like Or, And etc. and you can pass multiple SearchFilters to it as shown here.

If you want to delve more indepth, you can read the MSDN article below: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd633695(EXCHG.80).aspx

AIF Error creating the Web Proxy specified in the 'system.net/defaultProxy' configuration section.

A small tip when you are working on Dynamics AX AIF Services running on VPC

A background - I have a very simple AIF .Net Client App which has been very handy for me to test AIF Services on any environment. This client app consumes the AIF Customer Service to create customer records in AX.

Issue

Recently, when I was trying to generate the proxy for one of the AIF Service which was running on a VPC I ran into this error below (Note the client app project was on my host machine and I was opening the VS project via the shared drive)
"Error creating the Web Proxy specified in the 'system.net/defaultProxy' configuration section."


Solution

Copied the Visual Studio Client App Project into the VPC, Built it and re-generated the proxy for the service and now it works

Link to Dynamics AX Code Samples on MSDN

Dynamics AX Code Samples on MSDN, Just enter the search text "Dynamics AX" to do a search in the code gallery

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/ProjectDirectory.aspx?ProjectSearchText=Dynamics%20AX