- #DYNAMICS AX 2012 DEMO DRIVER#
- #DYNAMICS AX 2012 DEMO UPGRADE#
- #DYNAMICS AX 2012 DEMO WINDOWS 7#
- #DYNAMICS AX 2012 DEMO PROFESSIONAL#
Open your notepad, type below (according to your file location) then save it as “attachvhd.txt” and save to your C:\ drive. Still remember the 2nd Vhd file AX2012R3A_Data.vhd. Step 7 Attach the data (2nd Vhd to E: \Drive) Run it and change your E: drive to P Drive like below: We need to change this E: drive to something else because we need E: drive for the data for VM.ĭownload a tool and extract to your local drive.
#DYNAMICS AX 2012 DEMO WINDOWS 7#
Step 6 Change the Windows 7 OS Drive letterīy default the vhd file become your C: drive and the main disk (C: drive of your windows 7 become E: drive). On this page find for below node and add Contoso\administrator to it. Go to administrative tools>Open Group policy management This is a bit technical to explain and to simplify my tutorial I don’t want to explain too much on this. Once you login to Dynamics AX 2012 R3 VM environment, you need to add the admin to perform volume management Password: Step 5 Adding Contoso\Administrator to perform volume management When you restart computer you should see boot for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2012Ĭhoose the Windows Server 2012 to start and login with Microsoft demo account:
#DYNAMICS AX 2012 DEMO DRIVER#
Then now the important part creating the dual boot, enter following command (the H drive depends on the driver letter assigned on previouse step) Click windows>type command on search box>choose command prompt>right click>Open as Administrator.īack up your bootfile with following command (type it and press enter) System then will assign new drive letter to the VHD.
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Locate Dynamics AX vhd from previous extraction (AX2012R3A_OS.vhd) Attach your VHD to windows 7 from Disk ManagementĬlick Windows>Computer>Right click Manage. Extract this into a folder.Īfter extraction you should have 2 VHD like below: You will have 26 files from the download page. If you have a question please don’t hesitate to email me at Step 1 Download the material to your harddiskĭownload and extract the virtual machine file from partner source, link below: Is it too technical for me?įortunately it is easy enough to follow and you don’t have to be a very technical person to do it as long as you follow it step by step. It is how easy this method and why I call it cool trick. My solution is to setup Dual Boot OS, one for my main OS (Windows 7/8) and another one for Windows Server 2012 to host Dynamics AX 2012 virtual machine. Well this is my usually I do to maximize 8GB/16GB hardware to run virtual machine, fast enough to satisfy me. Let say most common laptop people have doesn’t support 24GB/32GB, the next option is to buy a super laptop with 32 GB RAM and be prepared to have around 3,000 USD in your pocket.
#DYNAMICS AX 2012 DEMO UPGRADE#
This RAM upgrade will cost you around 300-500 USD. If you have budget the easier is to upgrade your RAM to 24GB/32GB but I know very limited laptop model in current market can support such upgrade. Some of these applications are I/O hungry application which is known not running well in virtual environment. The main OS windows 7/8 and a hungry-resource-virtual-machine Windows server 2012 complete with AOS server, Sharepoint server, SQL server, SQL Server Reporting Service, SQL Server Analytal Service and you name it. Upgrading to 16 GB RAM is not helping either, the laptop is forced to run two OS at same time.
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The virtual machine is too slow to do anything.
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The moment virtual machine is ready then everyone realize his 8 GB RAM can’t run it fast enough.
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Mount the vhd to the virtual machine application and spend three hours to configure the setting before the virtual machine can be used.
#DYNAMICS AX 2012 DEMO PROFESSIONAL#
Most professional usually download the demo virtual machine from microsoft partner source, and use Vmware, Virtual Box or Hyper-V in their main laptop. These are most common example why Dynamics AX professional need this VM in his/her laptop. Or sales manager who want to do preparation for a demo to customer. Consultant need to test some of the standard functionality without using customer data or exploring some functions directly from laptop without remote to office. Programmer time to time would like to check how is the standard application class to compare customer’s instance with standard AX before any modification.