About a month ago I reached a milestone on my Dynamics AX Tip Of the Day blog site (www.dynamicsaxtipoftheday.com) and realized that I had compiled another 50 tips that I can share with everyone as a 3^rd tip compendium.  Over the past couple of weeks I have managed to sit down and organize them and am happy to say that this weekend I finished the job, and now the 3^rd volume within the Dynamics AX Tips & Tricks series is now available on Amazon.

I was a little worried about this one because it is over 700 pages of tips and step by step instructions with screen shots that I have painstakingly compiled for you all.  If you haven’t seen these books before, these tips are designed you the ones of us (myself included) that need to see how to do something rather than read instructions on how to do it.

Included in this compendium are the following tips & tricks for you all and hopefully one or two of these will make you even more of a Rock Star when it comes to Dynamics AX.
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Last week I released out a companion guide on Lifecycle Services that walked through the features that are available that you can use this to help with your own projects and implementations. A number of people asked when the electronic copies would be available and the answer is now.

The Kindle version is available for download on Amazon and you can find it here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00M56Z52A/

Don’t forget that if you don’t have a physical Kindle then there is a desktop version, and a client for all of the tablets that allows you to read all of the kindle books. If you haven’t seen them before then here is a link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=nav_kindle_reader_karl?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771

Also for the Premium Subscribers on the Dynamics AX Companions (www.dynamicsaxcompanions.com) website are able to download all of the chapters as PDF files right now and read them at their leisure. Here is the link to the landing page with all of the chapters listed out: http://www.dynamicsaxcompanions.com/Configuration-Blueprints/Configuring-Lifecycle-Services-To-Manage-Dynamics-AX-Projects

If you are not a Premium Subscriber then sign on up on the Dynamics AX Companions website and not only will you get access to all of the chapters to this book, but also all of the other complete books that I have published there. If you want to get a sneak peek into what the chapters look like then registered users can click here to download the first chapter for free: http://www.dynamicsaxcompanions.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=t-IlnFKVek0%3d&portalid=0

Recently I have been diving into more and more of the Lifecycle Services offering that is offered by Microsoft to help with managing our Dynamics AX projects, and during the process created a simple guide to show you most of the features that are available within it, and also how you can use this to help with your own projects. This weekend I finished up the guide and published it to Amazon for those that may be interested. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1500589756/

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Our 4^th of July project was to finish off the 3^rd book in the Barebones Configuration Guide series and this morning we finished it, published it to Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1500427047/) , and also made it available for download as a PDF for the Premium Subscribers on the Dynamics AX Companions (www.dynamicsaxcompanions.com) website.

So now you can work through book #1 and configure a sandbox version of Dynamics AX through Azure and Lifecycle Services, then book #2 and configure a new blank organization, and now book #3 and have a fully functioning General Ledger to test on.

If you follow the following link then it will take you to the overview page with all the links and content: http://dynamicsaxcompanions.com/Bare-Bones-Configuration-Guides/Configuring-The-General-Ledger-Within-Dynamics-AX-2012

Here is an overview of all the content that is now available.

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The Dynamics AX Companions (www.dynamicsaxcompanions.com) website has now been up and live for two weeks, and there is a little bit of extra premium content that has been posted there that you all might be interested in viewing. Here is a quick overview of the 23 new chapters that are now available:

Topics Added

• Using Azure And Lifecycle Services To Host Your Dynamics AX Test System
• Creating A New Partition
• Configuring The System For The First Time

More Information: Configuring A Basic Dynamics AX 2012 Test System

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• Configuring Your Organization
• Configuring Your Legal Entity

More Information: Configuring An Organization Within Dynamics AX 2012

Topics Added

• Configuring Lean Manufacturing

More Information: Configuring Production Control Within Dynamics AX 2012

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• Configuring Sales Management
• Configuring Activity Management
• Configuring Case Management
• Configuring Contact Management
• Configuring Prospect Management
• Configuring Opportunity Management
• Configuring Lead Management
• Configuring Campaign Management
• Configuring Telemarketing
• Configuring Call List Scripts Using Questionnaires

More Information: Configuring Sales & Marketing Within Dynamics AX 2012

Topics Added

• Configuring Service Management
• Configuring Service Orders
• Configuring Service Agreements
• Configuring Service Objects
• Configuring Repair Management
• Configuring Dispatch Teams
• Configuring Service Subscriptions

More Information: Configuring Service Management Within Dynamics AX 2012

Watch out for more content over the next week or so – especially the Configuring The General Ledger Companion Guide that should be finished and sent to printing next week.

I have received a number of requests (especially from outside of the US) for downloadable versions of the Dynamics AX Companion books other than through Amazon, and through the Dynamics AX Companions (www.dynamicsaxcompanions.com) website I now have a way to do that.  This week I published the complete set of chapters for the Configuring Production Control Within Dynamics AX 2012 there for you all to access if you are a Premium Subscriber.  Although they do not have the same touch and feel as the real book (which you can still get through Amazon) they are easy to access and I even used two of the chapters yesterday as I was setting up some data so I’m a user of them as well.

I will be posting all of the other books this way as well over the next couple of months as well so watch out for more content on the way (including updates and additional chapters).

Here is a summary of the content along with links to the pages on the Dynamics AX Companions website.

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Yay! Today I launched my new Dynamics AX Companions (dynamicsaxcompanions.com) website which despite what you may imply from the name is not a dating site for Dynamics AX users.

It is a consolidation site where I am going to post all of the blog posts that are scattered about on WordPress to make it easier to find the information that I have created for you all.

This is also where you will be able to download the source files for all of the presentations that I have posted to SlideShare, and Scribd, in their original format so that you will be able to see all of the screen shot details that you haven’t been able to see in the past because those sites compress the images during the upload process.

Also over the next few weeks I will be posting the drafts of my upcoming Dynamics AX Companion Series books so that you can get a sneak preview of them in their raw state while I polish up all of the details. If you are working through the Bare Bones Configuration Guide series, then this will give you access to the raw footage for you to follow and test out while I am still writing all of the narratives for them.

Make sure you register and also drop me notes with your feedback on the site. I have slaved for days (3) over this site and think it is pretty cool.