Register for Rapid Start Services in Dynamics AX 2012

Regsiter for Rapid Start Services in Dynamics AX 2012

Extracted from Kevin's blog below:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dynpartnercommunity/archive/2011/11/07/rapidstart-services-for-microsoft-dynamics-ax-2012-partner-web-seminar.aspx

RapidStart Services is a configuration and setup cloud service from Microsoft that allows a fast and easy way to configure and deploy Microsoft Dynamics AX business processes and scenarios. The core benefits for you as our partner would be:

• Fast / easy setup of demos and proof of Concepts
• Repeatable and reusable templates allowing differentiation
• Better collaboration with customers
• Structured approach to implementation process
• Allows Senior Consultants to focus on high-value adds
• Allows Junior Consultants to go further and learn

This training takes place on Tuesday, November 29 at 11:00AM PT. Register today on the Partner Learning Center.

Download WhitePaper on Credit Card Integration in Dynamics AX 2012

Thought to share with you, the latest whitepaper on Credit Card Processing in Dynamics AX 2012. At a high level, it shows how to setup Credit Card for AX 2012 which integrates with Dynamics ERP - Payment Services provider.

This whitepaper would serve beneficial for those who are planning to implement Credit Card integration with Dynamics AX 2012. Also, Microsoft has a hotfix for Dynamics AX 2009 which is mentioned in the whitepaper.

Some Features:


- Setup Credit Card Processing from a Development perspective
- Automate the process of Authorizing Credit Card amount at the time of order
- Set up Payment Services Providers
- Demo setup
- Dynamics AX 2012 Supports VISA, Master Card, American Express and Discover
- Terms of Payment form modified to cater Credit Card Setup
- New Credit Card Wizard from Customers and Sales Order Form
- Payment Services DLL Reference (from a technical standpoint)
- Credit Card Data Security using TPF (Table Permissions Framework)
- Hotfix for Dynamics AX 2009 to transition to Payment Services Provider Framework


To read in-depth, Please download the whitepaper from this link WhitePaper on Credit Card Processing

How to Configure Kerberos Authentication for SQL and MOSS

Apart from AX, In my current role, I have been extensively working on MOSS/Sharepoint Administration and Troubleshooting, Configuring Kerberos Authentication for SQL, MOSS Server and SSRS, Planning for Disaster Recovery, Troubleshooting SSRS.


This post is on my experience on setting up Kerberos for our standalone MOSS, SQL and SSRS Servers and troubleshooting IIS for Kerberos.

1. Server Farm Topology

TEST-DEV2 Server: MOSS Server 2007 Farm  (Primary) – Central Administration, IIS

TEST-DEV1 Server:


a.   SQL Server 2008 Database Engine, SSRS 2008 (Sharepoint Integrated Mode)

b. MOSS WFE (Web Front End Part of Server Farm configured on TEST-DEV1)

2. Setup Kerberos for SQL Server (TEST-DEV1)

Before we setup Kerberos for Sharepoint Server, we need to configure SQL for Kerberos

a. Register SPN’s for SQL Server Service (one  with NETBIOS and other with FQDN) as shown below

Setspn -a http/<computer-name>.<domain-name>:<port> <domain-user-account>

Setspn Command line Reference - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb735885.aspx

2. Test  the connectivity on SQL Server is via Kerberos and not NTLM

Logon to SSMS (staying in the same box) and fire the below SQL, if SPN’s are properly setup, then you should see KERBEROS in auth_scheme field.

               

3. Another way to test if Kerberos is being used as Authentication scheme is to bring up Central Administration site and now go back to TEST-DEV1 (the host box where SQL is running). Bring up the Event Viewer (check Security tab)

4. In the Security Log, you should be able to see Success audit record for Logon/Logoff category event

Check the Detailed Authentication information and should be able to see the Login mechanism as Kerberos which confirms our test that MOSS is communicating with SQL via Kerberos

3. Setup Kerberos for MOSS Server (TEST-DEV2)

Register SPN’s for MOSS Server (Service account) in the similar fashion as we did for SQL:

1. Register with NETBIOS name
2. Register with FQDN name as shown below

3. Browse to Central Administration website and confirm by going to the Event Viewer of the hostmachine in Security log, (similar to the steps we performed for SQL) that the authentication package here is Kerberos

TROUBLESHOOTING:

A.

Troubleshooting IIS Authentication HTTP Error 401 after Kerberos is setup for MOSS Server Farm

Note: If you are running IIS 7.0 server in a Web farm the KDC will not know in advance which individual server the request may go to and hence ticket decryption may fail

Bring up IIS Manager, Go to each of your websites and turn off the Kernel Mode Authentication under Windows Authentication Advanced Settings option

OR

Let Kernel mode authentication be enabled and the Application pool's identity be used for Kerberos ticket decryption. The only thing you need to do here is:

1. Run the Application pool under a common custom domain account.

2. Add this attribute "useAppPoolCredentials" in the ApplicationHost.config file.

<system.webServer>

  <security>

     <authentication>

        <windowsAuthentication enabled="true" useKernelMode="true" useAppPoolCredentials="true" />

     </authentication>

  </security>

</system.webServer>

Remember there is no GUI setting for this. You need to modify the ApplicationHost.config file from

<%SystemDrive%>/Windows/System32/inetsrv/config folder on the IIS 7.0 machine.

Note:
Tried both the options but Option A works fine with Option B, there’s this frequent system crash as I reckon it’s changing the applicationhost.config file settings. Need to check this behaviour in Production Server as Option B is more performance friendly and recommended approach

B.

Configuring Kerberos for SSRS (running in Sharepoint Integrated Mode):

1. Register SPN for SSRS Server Instance  (both with NETBIOS and FQDN)

Setspn -a http/<computer-name>.<domain-name>:<port> <domain-user-account>

Reference - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc281382.aspx

2. Open the RsReportServer.config file and locate the <AuthenticationTypes> section. Add <RSWindowsNegotiate/> as the first entry in this section to enable Kerberos

3. Test: Deploy a Report through BIDS to  a Report Center site, http://test-dev2/rc/

Troubleshooting tip: You may run into error rsaccessdenied: The account SHarepoint/System doesn’t have permissions to deploy the report. In order to troubleshoot this error, check if spn’s are properly registered with the sharepoint service account and there’s no duplicity of SPN’s.

Update - Inside Dynamics AX 2012 Videos (Videos #10,11 and 12)

The video series on "Inside Dynamics AX 2012" is complete now, with Videos on Simplicity, Workflow and Organization Model added.


http://daxdilip.blogspot.com/2011/08/inside-microsoft-dynamics-ax-2012.html


Would recommend you to bookmark it. Njoi :)

Dynamics AX Error executing code: Overflow in internal run stack

Error:

Got this run-time error during a full run of inventory settlement data - "Error executing Code: Overflow in internal run stack.

Troubleshooting Steps:

After some investigation, found out that this was being caused due to circular reference in one of the settlement transaction due to which the container fills up thereby resulting in run-time stack overflow.