Show-Object is absolutely awesome PowerShell cmdlet – exactly what I missed! See how I call Get-Process and pipe the result to Show-Object. It opens a new Window where I can see all properties and expand object hierarchy; it also shows all methods, events and other members in the bottom part. This is not included in …
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 …
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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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 …
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 …