Table of Contents -- Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Administration -- Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Administration -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Instant Updates on New Packt Books -- Preface -- Who this book is for -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. System Planning and Hardware Sizing -- Phases of a Dynamics AX implementation -- Modeling phase -- Development, testing, and training -- Production (Go live) -- Planning phase -- Delegation phase -- Hardware planning -- Virtualization -- Database sizing -- Application Object Server requirements -- Application file server requirements -- Web server requirements -- Network planning -- Domain Controller setup -- Software planning -- Database software -- Software integration -- Single server topology -- Small-scale topology -- Large-scale topology -- Large-scale distribution topology -- Intranet and extranet topologies -- Permission requirements -- Miscellaneous implementation tasks -- Summary -- 2. Setup and Configuration of the Base Server Components -- Installing the Dynamics AX database -- Manually installing and setting up the Dynamics AX database -- Installing the Dynamics AX Application files -- Installing the Application Object Server (AOS) -- Installing the Dynamics AX Client -- Dynamics AX Initialization checklist -- Summary -- 3. Setup and Configuration of the Enterprise Portal -- Installation and configuration of the Enterprise Portal -- Creating the Enterprise Portal SharePoint Application -- Creating the Business Connector proxy user -- Installing the Enterprise Portal -- Verifying the Enterprise Portal installation.

Setting up an Enterprise Portal in a Load Balanced web farm -- Deploying the Enterprise Portal in a SharePoint NLB web farm -- Additional resources for the Enterprise Portal -- Summary -- 4. Setup and Configuration of the Role Centers -- Installation and setup of Role Centers -- Installation and setup of Analysis extensions -- Installation and setup of Reporting extensions -- Deploying reports using the Report Deployment utility -- Dynamics AX SQL Server Reporting Services setup -- Assigning Role Centers -- Summary -- 5. Setting Up Kerberos Authentication -- Setting up Kerberos authentication for Role Centers -- Configuring Service Principal Names -- Configuring the Domain Controller for Kerberos authentication -- Raising the domain functional level -- Verifying account delegation -- Configuring SharePoint for Kerberos authentication -- Configuring SQL Reporting Services for Kerberos authentication -- Configuring SQL Analysis Services for Kerberos authentication -- Setting SQL Report Services connection string -- Setting up Office Data Connection (ODC) files -- Setting up Component Services -- Configuring Internet Information Services for Kerberos authentication -- Summary -- 6. Setup and Configuration of the Workflow -- Workflow prerequisites -- Workflow accounts setup -- Installing Workflow -- Creating a website for Workflow -- Installing the Workflow component -- Enabling Workflow in Windows Server 2008 R2 -- Setting up Workflow -- Workflow configuration prerequisites -- Creating a dedicated Workflow batch group -- Setting up the AOS as a batch server -- Configuring Workflow -- Running the Workflow infrastructure configuration wizard -- Specifying Workflow settings -- Testing Workflow -- Summary -- 7. Setup and Configuration of Application Integration Framework -- Configuring AIF in Dynamics AX -- Specifying global settings.

Specifying local endpoints -- Setting up AIF to use a filesystem adapter -- Specifying channels -- Specifying external endpoints -- Managing and troubleshooting AIF document exchanges -- Managing AIF document exchanges -- Methods for troubleshooting -- Setting up AIF to use web services -- Creating an AIF website -- Installing the AIF web service extension -- Creating and configuring an AIF website -- Applying appropriate permissions -- Specifying an AIF website -- Generating an AIF web service -- Specifying the authentication method for an AIF web service -- Accessing the AIF web service -- Summary -- 8. Data Migration -- The data migration process -- Generating an Excel spreadsheet -- Importing data from an Excel spreadsheet -- Advanced data migration features -- Summary -- 9. Security and User Administration -- Security requirements -- Security requirements for the base server components -- Security requirements for the extended server components -- Security requirements for integration components -- Dynamics AX security model -- Setting up user access in Dynamics AX -- Importing users into Dynamics AX -- Specifying user permissions in Dynamics AX -- Using the Security Profiler tool -- Assigning employees to users -- Creating and setting up domains -- Setting up Record Level Security -- Setting user permissions for the Enterprise Portal -- Specifying user permissions for reports -- Setting user permissions for Analysis Cubes -- Summary -- 10. Alerts and Notifications -- Alerts prerequisites -- Alerts permissions setup -- Creating an alerts batch job -- Setting up an event alert batch job -- Setting up a due date alert batch job -- Setting up the Batch Processing Window interval -- Creating alert rules -- Alert example: Notification of when a purchase order status has changed -- Maintaining alerts -- Cleaning up event queues automatically.

Cleaning up event queues manually -- Preventing alerts during data import -- Setting up user alert options -- Summary -- 11. Tuning Your Setup -- Accessing the Application Object Server (AOS) configuration -- AOS configuration settings -- Advanced AOS configuration settings -- Creating an AOS Configuration: An example -- Tuning an AOS for best performance -- Non-load-balanced cluster -- Load-balanced cluster -- Accessing the client configuration -- Client configuration settings -- Advanced client configuration settings -- Summary -- 12. Backup and Maintenance -- Backup -- SQL Server backup -- Application file backup -- Role Centers and Enterprise Portal backup -- Re-indexing -- Consistency check -- Database synchronization -- Summary -- A. Appendix -- Setting up Global Search -- Creating a batch job -- Managing batch jobs -- View current batch jobs -- Common troubleshooting techniques -- When application modifications are not appearing -- How to troubleshoot AOS starting issues -- B. Appendix -- Enterprise Portal tips -- Multiple instances of an Enterprise Portal in a web server -- Common troubleshooting techniques -- Unable to install components when there are multiple environments -- Troubleshooting techniques for Enterprise Portal issues -- Modifying Component Services properties in Windows Server 2008 R2 -- How to install Analysis Extensions on SQL Server Analysis Services 2008 and 2008 R2 -- How to automatically process SQL Server Analysis Services Cubes -- Setting up the Enterprise Portal in SharePoint 2010 -- Creating a SharePoint Web Application -- Installing the Enterprise Portal content -- Index.