Microsoft: Announcing Longer Support Timelines for Key Microsoft Dynamics Service Packs

Microsoft did a new release to PartnerSource, that effective June 22nd 2009, Microsoft will extend support timeline for Dynamics products service packs.

From the statement.:
"Microsoft is extending the service pack support policy for Microsoft Dynamics SL, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics AX, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM to 24 months of support for a previous service pack, when a new service pack is released. Previously, when a new service pack was released for these products, Microsoft provided 12 months of support for the previous service pack."

The following is a direct link to find out the details.:
Longer Support Timelines for Key Microsoft Dynamics® Service Packs

This means that Dynamics AX 4.0 SP1, which was no longer support is now being reactivated and will be support until Oct. 13th of this year. This also means that DAX 4.0 SP2 will now be supported 24 months beyond the next service pack.

This was in response to a lot of customer feedback, for needing more support and giving each service more life to live a fuller cycle.

This can be argued both ways of being positive or not. In the end, this is a heavy customer demand, and after review makes sense to do so.

That's all for now, check back soon!




"Visit the Dynamics AX Community Page today!"

Dynamics AX 2009 - Service Pack 1 Released

Today Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Dynamics AX 2009. A list of issues and enhancements are a part of this SP.

The link: (Requires PartnerSource Access) PartnerSource Link for DAX 2009 SP1 download.

From the post:
"Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2009 Service Pack 1 (SP1) contains the complete set of updates that Microsoft has issued since the June 2008 RTM release of Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2009, as well as a number of enhancements and new features to improve the product’s functionality and user experience."

And also I noticed that with this, offically Dynamics AX 2009 is fully supported to run on SQL Server 2008.

Let me say, looking at the what's new, a lot has been done with this SP release. I recommend you download and read it, as I am sure those who have implemented or currently implementing DAX 2009 can really benefit from this right away.

One of the smaller things, that might go un-noticed possible is the addition of XML documentation to X++.

"XML Documentation
You can now write XML documentation in X++® source code to document classes, class methods, and table methods. This XML documentation can be extracted from the source code to create an XML documentation file."

This is similar to how you can do so with Visual Studio for C# code, etc. This is a nice new feature, that will really help with documenting objects, who developed them, what they are used for, and easily share this information when this is used correctly.

Again please read it over it, as there are several Technical and Functional improvements with this SP1 release.

Check back soon!




"Visit the Dynamics AX Community Page today!"

Dynamics AX 4.0 SP2 has been released

All,

Dynamics AX 4.0 SP2 has been released. You can find the download here [PartnerSource link]: Dynamics AX 4.0 SP2

If you are a customer and need this, I recommend going through your partner or CustomerSource.

Here is a little bit of interesting information for the focus of this release:
"Several fixes focused on stabilizing the Client and Application Object Server. This was a main focus for SP2." Among others!

Check back soon!

Find a job at: www.DynamicsAXJobs.com