AX management shell – multiple models

Even if you’re not familiar with PowerShell, you probably don’t have much trouble with using AX management cmdlets. You just call the right command, set some parameters and it’s done. # Just for example Export-AXModel -Model "MyModel" -File "c:\my.axmodel" If you don’t know the parameters, you’ll simply use Get-Help or some of its aliases, such …

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Test Data Transfer Tool: Getting errors from log

I imported data to AX with the Test Data Transfer Tool and it told me that some errors occured. The log file is quite large, so I asked myself what’s the easiest way to find these errors. This is my approach, using a very simple Powershell script: [xml]$dplog = Get-Content C:\Windows\System32\dplog.xml $dplog.root.item | ? Status …

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Creating AX users in Powershell

If you want to create a user in Dynamics AX 2012, you can simply use New-AXUser cmdlet and other User and role-based security cmdlets. It’s more difficult in AX 2009 and older versions, but you can utilize Business Connector to do the job. Below is an extended function that I wrote for AX 2009. It accepts …

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Powershell management cmdlets

I love Powershell and I use it for many tasks such as managing AOS services and deploying AX applications. Nevertheless I rarely do much work regarding Windows servers, because there is always somebody who does that as a part of his own job. But now I’m preparing few private machines for my research and development …

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