Tag: Dynamics AX 2009

Verify all installed hotfixes in AX 2009

Today I need to handle an older system… I need to verify if a hotfix is installed in and older AX 2009 system. I found this instruction online (link below): Here is another way to get the list of installed KBs in AX 2009:

  1. Start the AOT (Ctrl + D)
  2. Go to Classes – SysHotfixManifest and expand it
  3. Select a methods and press Ctrl + A to select all methods
  4. Right-click and click Add-Ins – Copy – Name
  5. Paste into Wordpad (Notepad does not handle the CRs very well)
  6. Search for the KB number you want to find

That’s it

Johan

Links
https://community.dynamics.com/ax/f/microsoft-dynamics-ax-forum/76061/finding-which-hotfixes-are-installed/212528

Updating a secondary AOS instance

Today one of my colleuges had an issue with applying a hotfix in a customers environment. The environment had three AOS instances installed on the same server which had the correct version and they installed a fourth one which they missed to patch.

When we ran the axupdate install file we got this screen:

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It said that there is nothing to patch… which there was… weird. So looking around the internet I found out that there is a command line parameters for axupdate called AOSINSTANCENAME… great… that should work…

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Doh… turns out you cannot use comandline parameters unless you run a completely silent install…

axupdate.exe AcceptLicenseTerms=1 AosInstanceName=04-AX183ByggUserTest AosStart=0 HideUI=1 InstallAos=1 LogDir=”c:\Temp”

If you miss the HideUI=1 it will also ignore all of the other parameters Sad smile

Well… all well that ends well

Merry Xmas

/Johan

AX 2009 Firewall Issues

Today we are looking into an AX 2009 install…

If you install AX 2009 on a server with the Firewall enabled the setup program will create a new firewall rule called Dynamics AX 5.0-[AXInstanceName]. This would be all good if it wasn’t for the fact that the rule was wrong Sad smile

The rule points to this path:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\50\Server\[AXInstanceName]\Bin\Ax32Serv

This should of course be:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\50\Server\[AXInstanceName]\Bin\Ax32Serv.exe

Change it and everything will work Winking smile

/Johan

Links:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/emeadaxsupport/2009/04/28/unable-to-connect-to-the-aos-with-windows-server-firewall-enabled-on-windows-server-20082008-r2/