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October 15, 2019 in Blog by Amer
D365FO | Cannot Connect to SQL Server Database on Your Cloud Test Machines
It’s been so long and short years since I posted anything on my blog. So here you go, I’m blogging again.
If you faced an issue lately in connecting to Microsoft SQL Server database on the test machines of your Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations cloud deployments, even after you added “.databse.windows.net” then your deployment might got effected by the latest release in August or September 2019.
We used to login with the LCS SQL Server credentials:
But we started to get the following error:
Cannot connect to spartan-*** .database.windows.net
Cannot open server ‘spartan-***’ requested by the login. Client with IP address ‘*.*.*.*’ is not allowed to access the server. To enable access, use the Windows Azure Management Portal to run sp_set_firewall_rule on the master database to create a firewall rule fore this IP addressor address range. It may ta up to five minutes to for this change to take effect. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error:40615)
Now, Microsoft might have moved your database to different Azure SQL Servers.
To make it simple, you now still have to put the server name (from LCS) in the Connection fields in SQL Server Management Studio, and add “.databse.windows.net” but you need to go to Options button, and entering the Database name (from LCS). You should be able to connect.
Here you go in pictures:
Number 1 + “database.windows.net”:
You should be able to connect now if you copied the right credentials like this:
Hope that helps.
January 20, 2014 in Blog by Amer
Intro to Microsoft Dynamics AX in Arabic – سلسلة حلقات مايكروسوفت داينامكس إيه إكس بالعربية
كمبادرة من :مجتمع مايكروسوفت داينامكس إيه إكس برينز” و الذي نشأ في البلاد العربية لدعم و مساعدة العاملين على نظام مايكروسوفت داينامكس إيه إكس (المسمى سابقا بـ: أكزبتا)، ارتأينا القيام بسلسلة من الحلقات التعليمية الخاصة في نظام مايكروسوفت داينامكس إيه إكس باللغة العربية.
الهدف هو إظهار قدرات هذا النظام، و إبراز معالمه الرئيسية، و نشر وعي المجتمع العربي.
المستهدفين هم الأخوة و الأخوات الراغبين في التعرف أكثر و التقرب أكثر من صناعة أنطمة تخطيط موارد المنظمات، و بالأخص العاملين على نظام داينامكس إيه إكس.
نبدأ الحلقات بأول حلقة:
February 23, 2013 in Blog by Amer
Microsoft Dynamics Launch – Sunday, 24th February – Intercontinental Hotel, Riyadh
Your business deserves more than
just an accounting solution.
Find out more at the Microsoft Dynamics Launch Event.
Dear Customer,
Microsoft is redefining how business solutions empower people for greater success, predict potential issues and opportunities, and enable organizations to expand the possibilities for competitive advantage.
Join us at the Microsoft Dynamics Launch Event to find out how to work forward and continue to grow into a well-connected, forward-looking organization that empowers its people to reach their full potential.
Meet Microsoft and Microsoft partners, learn about the latest Microsoft Dynamics solutions from industry experts, and find out how to deliver immediate results for your business.
Date: Sunday, 24th February, 2013
City: Riyadh
Venue: Intercontinental Hotel
Tracks: Multiple tracks
Register now
Agenda
08:00 – 09:00 Registration & Morning Coffee
09:00 – 09:15 Welcoming & Introduction
09:15 – 09:30 Keynote
09:30 – 10:00 CRM Overview
10:00 – 11:30 CRM Partner Solution
AX R2 2012 Track
12:45 – 01:30 AX R2 2012 Overview
01:30 – 03:00 AX Partner Solution
03:00 – 03:30 Microsoft Dynamics Communities in Saudi: Why, how and where?
03:30 – 05:00 Prayer, Coffee Break & Meeting the Partners
GP 2013 Track
01:00 – 03:00 GP Partner Solution
03:00 – 05:00 Prayer, Coffee Break & Meeting the Partners Prayer,
NAV 2013 Track
01:00 – 03:00 NAV Partner Solution
03:00 – 05:00 Prayer, Coffee Break & Meeting the Partners
December 30, 2012 in Blog by Amer
Files of Our AX Brains Dec 2012 Event
As part of our contribution to our Dynamics AX Brains community members, we are sharing our presentation files we have used during the four sessions we had in our Dynamics AX Dec 2012 Technical Seminar. (Click to Download.)
December 28, 2012 in Blog by Amer
It was a great day!
Yesterday was a great day for our community Dynamics AX Brains!
We had an offline event in Riyadh, in Al-Yamamah University which hosts the Microsoft Innovation Center. During about 5 Hours, we managed to have 4 sessions as planned earlier. Here are some pictures for the event:
December 26, 2012 in Blog by Amer
Tomorrow is the day for our Dynamics AX Brains Technical Seminar
Hello Dynamics AX Brains community!
We are currently preparing for the gathering tomorrow, and I hope you are preparing as well.
For those who have never been to the Al Yamamah University, you guys should know that it is a bit from the city center of Riyadh. It might take about 45 minutes from the center of Riyadh.
Here is the map:
December 19, 2012 in Blog by Amer
Dynamics AX Brains December 2012 Technical Seminar
Microsoft Dynamics AX Brains community in Saudi Arabia is pleased to conduct a series of sessions about the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Agenda (10:00AM – 03:15PM):
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10:30 |
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Budget Control in AX 2012 |
10:30 |
11:30 |
Ahmad Yakan |
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Will focus on the budget control in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 and how this functionality keeps the spending and expenses under control and contributes with best performance for cost reduction in the enterprise.
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Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 |
11:30 |
12:30 |
Ahmad Maghraby |
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In nowadays challenging economic conditions, companies are looking for strong supplier relationships. Businesses worldwide realized that in the long run, better suppliers selection to building sustainable, workable relationships is more profitable than pitting suppliers against one other for marginal price reductions. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 came with a lot of new and enhanced features enabling businesses to better manage their suppliers and allowing for the improvement of collaborative relationships with them.
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Prayer and Coffee Break |
12:30 |
01:15 |
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What do you know about Reporting in Dynamics AX 2012 |
01:15 |
02:15 |
Amer Atiyah |
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Reports are the result of entering, validating, and storing the data in any business application. Dynamics AX 2012 comes with rich utilities to view data in many ways such as tabular, list, matrix, charts, KPIs, and cubes reporters. Examine the SSRS & SSIS reporting of Dynamics AX 2012 in 45 minutes and discover how rich this ERP is.
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Get in touch with Microsoft Dynamics SureStep |
02:15 |
03:15 |
Saied AlHamwi |
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Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step is a full customer lifecycle methodology for all Microsoft Dynamics® solutions, providing the Microsoft ecosystem with comprehensive sales through delivery guidance, project management discipline alignment and field-driven best practices. Sure Step is designed to enable the solution provider to better serve their customers by helping reduce their Microsoft Dynamics total cost of ownership. Sure Step content covers the Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM solution suite of solutions, including Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and Microsoft Dynamics SL. The guidance, tools, templates and best practices provided in the methodology can help increase the consistency, timeframes, quality and success of the Microsoft Dynamics engagements.
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Ahmed Yakan, MCITP, MCT |
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Regional Manager at Trax Consulting |
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Ahmed has more than 7 years of experience in business solutions and ERP implementations especially in Microsoft Dynamics AX. Working in a variety of different roles including project Management, team leading, and consultancy, Ahmed has exceptional functional skills. Through the multiple ERP implementations he participated in, Ahmed gained deep business knowledge across all functional areas in AX including (Supply Chain, Finance, Projects, Service Management, Production, Professional Services Automation, Cost Accounting and Expense Management). Ahmed has the implementation experience in all business types starting by the manufacturing and Trade business environments, passing by the services environment and ending by real estate activities. He has worked with different versions of Microsoft Dynamics AX including (V 3.0, V 4.0, V 2009 & V 2012). |
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Ahmed Maghraby, CPIM, CSCP, CPF, PMP |
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Operations Manager at Trax Consulting |
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Ahmed is multi-certified, Supply Chain and Operations Management professional with long experience in implementing and supporting enterprise business solutions. With more than 15 years of experience in the consulting field, He worked in variety of different roles including, Operations Manager, Professional Services Manager, Projects Manager, Consultant and Developer. He has an exceptional combination of Business and Technology knowledge. Working on numerous ERP implementations, Mr. Ahmed gained an extensive knowledge across many functional areas of business, including supply chain management, production and management accounting. He has worked with many ERP systems including Microsoft Dynamics AX (V 3.0, V 4.0, V 2009 & V 2012), SAP Netweaver and Sage. |
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Amer Atiyah |
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Dynamics AX Brains Community Lead |
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Passionate Software Development and Deployment, Technology, ERP industry, HR and Payroll professional with over than 7 years of hands-on experience of Microsoft Dynamics AX. He is leading a team of AX profissionals in developing and implementing HR & Payroll add-on to serve Microsoft partners and customers in different countries in the Middle East. He has been a speaker for Microsoft Dynamics AX in Microsoft GDC, OpenDoor and the local technical communities. You can reach Amer through his technical blog: http://www.amerax.net/category/blog/. |
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Saied Al Hamwi |
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Business Applications Manager at ACWA Holding |
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Saied has more than 12years of experience in ERP implementation, Project management and Industrial engineering, with solid business and industrial background. His proven functional experience in different modules and roles has enabled him to manage the implementation project with high efficiency, utilizing the project management standards and Microsoft implementation methodology. |
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September 27, 2012 in Blog by Amer
Windows Server 2012: Built from the Cloud Up
Join us for the Windows Server 2012 launch!
Celebrate the arrival of Windows Server 2012 with Microsoft experts and a community of users!Learn more about amazing new capabilities in different areas, like:- Virtualization
- Storage
- Networking
- Management
- Application Development
- VDI
September 29, 2012
9:00 AM to 2:30 PM
Al-Faisaliah Hotel, Riyadh
September 21, 2012 in Blog by Amer
Dynamics AX 2012 Live Deployment Scenario
After over than 9 months of absence, here I am back to my lovely blog and lovely community.
I will start the new journey with my last deployment for our Dynamics AX 2012 environment. It has been really an interesting architecture the one we built on our servers based on the requirements we have.
Our requirement was to have a stable, available and reliable Dynamics AX 2012 environment for our 7 companies that are distributed all over Saudi.Those seven companies are working in different types of businesses like contracting, investment, manufacturing, contracting, services/maintenance, and trade. Thus, determining the number of transactions was not easy. The main point in here is that our users needed to have different modules, processes, workflows, and reports. Moreover, some of them might contradict in their requirements which makes the customization not easy as well.
I also would like to mention that we will be having customers entering our Enterprise Portal through the internet to access their bills which have been migrated automatically from Saudi banking payments system: SADAD. Internal employees will be using the EP of course as their employee slef-services portal. That EP will be integrated with the internal portals and document management solutions in the future.
Number of users is around 336 users:
As you might expect, to allow the availability of such number of users and requirements we have to have a big architecture that serves every single detail of the requirement.
Here are some notes about the architecture:
| Server | Quantity | Notes |
| Application Servers: Dynamics AX 2012 AOS | 5 | Load balanced AOS Virtual Servers |
| Batch Server: Dynamics AX 2012 AOS | 1 | |
| Database Server: SQL Server 2008 R2 | 2 | Failover Cluster |
| Reporting Server for SSRS, SSAS and Management Reporter | 1 | Might be two as load balanced in the future |
| Web farm: SharePoint Server and Help Server | 2 | |
| Terminal Servers | 2 | Load balanced to allow accessing of all users through the Terminal Services of Windows 2008 R2 |
| File Server | 1 | As a document repository on a SAN storage |
If you are interested to know about the configuration of those servers, please leave a comment and I will be more than happy to answer your inquiries. 
December 10, 2011 in Blog by Amer
Enterprise Portal is Not Working on Dynamics AX 2012 Hyper-V Image
If you ever started working on the image downloaded from the Microsoft PartnerSource of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, you might face a trouble while trying to explore Role Centers or Enterprise Portals.
This error is due to the configuration setup in the AX2012 image that let’s DNS points to contoso.com domain. What has to be done is to redirect that domain to the current machine (which is the same virtual machine you’re using).
To do so you must add a loop back IP to your” Hosts” file. You can think of that files a Rolodex for your computer. Its where a computer looks first to translate the URL of a website into a numerical IP address that it can actually use. You can find the “Hosts” file in: “C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\Hosts”.
To fix the issue, open the Hosts file a notepad and add this line to the end of the file:
127.0.0.1 dynamicsax.contoso.com
In the beginning, you might encounter the below error… but it will be fixed with “refresh”:
December 6, 2011 in Blog by Amer
Dynamics Academy – An Academic Project for Microsoft Dynamics in Saudi Arabia
Everyone in the Dynamics filed remembers very well how hard it was to get into the track of any Microsoft Dynamics producttechnically or functionally. Apart from missing of learning resources, qualified consultants were also missed.
A great initiative that we always missed since so long time is now live in Saudi Arabia. Dynamics Academy is an academic initiative that was taken to support the Microsoft Dynamics community in Saudi Arabia with academic programs in all kinds with Microsoft Dynamics AX, GP, NAV and CRM.
From its early days, Dynamics Academy has put an objective in mind that is helping Microsoft Dynamics vendors and clients in the region to educate their resources and put them on the right track to increase the success probabilities. The academy is seriously taking the responsibility of such education programs by starting with fresh individuals who have no experience in ERP, CRM, nor any business solution implementation even. Those individuals will be ready to get involved as functional and technical consultants in junior levels in Dynamics AX, GP, NAV and CRM implementations.
This initiative was taken by three contributors from the community: Ahmad Maghraby (CPIM, CSCP, PMP, MCT), Ahmad Yakan (MCT, MCBSP) and I.
For more information about the Dynamics Academy and to get announcements on the trainings, visit the academy website: http://www.dynamicsacademy.net/.
November 30, 2011 in Blog by Amer
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Event in Khubar
After its successful event in Riyadh last May, Microsoft Dynamics AX Brains community is back to continue its support to the Saudi community in the Eastern Region this time.
Under the sponsorship of Cubes Solutions, December 14th will gather all community members at Al Gosaiby hotel in Khubar to introduce the new version Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.
The event will be a great opportunity for Microsoft Dynamics AX partners, customers, and consultants to gather and network.
Agenda (09:30AM – 02:45PM):
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| Welcoming note and Dynamics AX Brains Introductory | 09:55 | 10:00 | Amer Atiyah | ||||||||
| If you have no idea what “Dynamics AX Brains” is, then this is a good chance for you to know how you can benefit from such community and technical gathering.
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| Introducing the New Features of Supply Chain Management & Manufacturing in Dynamics AX 2012 | 12:15 | 13:30 | Ahmad Maghraby | ||||||||
| Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 is coming with so many new capabilities that are critical for any business. Specifically in the supply chain management and the production areas, major processes have been introduced. This session will reveals the new features of AX 2012 in the supply chain management and manufacturing. Join us and get ready for the new release.
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| Technology in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 | 13:45 | 15:00 | Amer Atiyah | ||||||||
| This session is a light weight technical session describes the new Dynamics AX 2012 for new as well as experienced Dynamics AX technical and non-technical attendees.Tremendous changes and efforts have been made on the technology side from the Dynamics AX 2012. Layers in database, new Modeling system, Reports only on SSRS, Enterprise Portal on MOSS 2012, AOT in VS.net… and many other new updates you would really like to watch.
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