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  • 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/