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Coffee Break: Monitoring and troubleshooting NAV Services, Part III – Performance troubleshooting and profiling User Activity using PowerShell 

Since the release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, tracing user activity has become a bit more complicated than it used to be in earlier versions due to the fact that unlike previously, all user connections to SQL Server are now server connections. Which makes it more difficult to trace individual user activity. But not impossible: Enabling

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How to change the Storage dimension group on items with existing Inventory transactions 

I have seen numerous occurrences of customers needing to change the storage dimension group on an item with existing inventory transactions.  This unfortunately can be a time consuming process, but it is important to do this the correct way to avoid data corruption and potential ledger implications.  Rather than taking the non-supported route by performing

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PowerShell module for performing data operations and manipulating user and system settings in CRM 

Did you ever wish to perform all these operations in Microsoft Dynamics CRM using PowerShell: Create, retrieve, update, and delete records in CRM Manage CRM security by adding/managing users, teams, and their roles Import and export CRM solutions Manage user and system settings While some of it was possible earlier using the official CRM PowerShell

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September 2015 release notes 

The Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the September release of Lifecycle Services.  NEW FEATURES General Incremental updates to the notification framework provide you with better control for notifications from LCS. Updated experience for SharePoint and Visual studio online setup including addition of “Action center” to give you

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Form created in AX 2012 RTM or AX 2012 R2 with ManagedHost control on its design fails to open on AX 2012 R3 

Applies to AX 2012 R2 & AX 2012 R3 Consider the following scenario: When a form is created in AX 2012 RTM or AX 2012 R2 and a ManagedHost control is added on its design, like “Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.Framework.Client.Controls.ChartToolBar”. Then when the form is deployed on a newer AX version, e.g. AX 2012 R3 environment,  the form no

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Why does converting a report to pre-processing help to resolve timeout issues? 

I assume you are familiar with the below post that contains detailed instructions for increasing relevant timeouts to enable long running reports to execute successfully. How To: Addressing SSRS Session Timeouts (Alternatively Tips to help prevent long-running reports from timing out [AX 2012]) The first recommendation in case of reports which use the Report Data