Download large db backups from LCS asset library

If you have to download a large database backup from LCS asset library this might be a real pain. It is slow and unstable if you just download it with your browser.

 You should always use azcopy: Copy or move data to Azure Storage by using AzCopy v10 | Microsoft Learn

In LCS just click on the "Generate SAS link" this will copy the download link into the clipboard. Open a command prompt and run

azcopy "SASlink" t:\yourLocalFolder

D365 VHD for 10.0.24 is finally available

 For all of you looking for a new D365 VHD Microsoft has just released the VHD with version 10.0.24

Call Dynamics AX2012 AIF Webservice from Postman

Lately I was forced to call a Dynamics AX2012 webservice from Postman. The service is deployed as an HTTP service inbound port in AX on the IIS instance.

First of all I had to authenticate against AX to get around "IIS 8.5 Detailed Error - 401.1 - Unauthorized" - there are some posts in the WWW suggesting to use Fiddler as a supporting tool for the authentication. In my case I was able to use NTLM authentication from postman:

Even though this is still beta it is working quite well for me. 

After that I did some tests with GET and POST. In the header it is important to set

Content-Type = text/xml; charset=UTF-8
SOAPAction = http://tempuri.org/AXService/ProcessWhatever

In the POST scenario I was facing "400 Bad request". This is quite chalanging cause it just means that there is something wrong within the Body. In my case I finally wrote a working XMLwhich looks something like this:

<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Header>
<h:CallContext xmlns:h="http://schemas.microsoft.com/dynamics/2010/01/datacontracts"
               xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<h:Company>ABC</h:Company>
<h:Language i:nil="true"/>
<h:LogonAsUser i:nil="true"/>
<h:MessageId i:nil="true"/>
<h:PartitionKey i:nil="true"/>
<h:PropertyBag i:nil="true" 
                            xmlns:a="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"/> </h:CallContext>
</s:Header>
<s:Body>
<ABCServiceRequest xmlns="http://tempuri.org">
<data>123</data>
</ABCServiceRequest >
</s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

The last error I saw was "500 internal server error" - Unexpected character encountered while parsing value. This was due to a wrong value within the body of the XML.

After all that was solved I now can try the AX interface through postman and I'm happy to see "200 Ok" and the response from the service

<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
    <s:Body>
        <ABCServiceRequest xmlns="http://tempuri.org">
            <response>processed :) </response>
        </ABCServiceRequest >
    </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

AX2012 Aos start error: Server terminated unexpectedly with 110 exitcode.

Yes AX2012, back to the past :) 

I just tried to start an old AOS with a new empty database. 

First thing that popped up was the error code 110. So what to do? 

Checking the new database I noticed that the two stored procedures CREATESERVERSESSIONS and CREATUSERSESSIONS were missing. 

The solution for this error code was just to create them. 

USE [AX2012DB] 

GO 

 /****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[CREATESERVERSESSIONS] Script Date: 12/24/2031 11:11:11 AM ******/ 

SET ANSI_NULLS ON 

GO 

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON 

GO 

CREATE procedure [dbo].[CREATESERVERSESSIONS] @aosId nvarchar(50), @version int, @instanceName nvarchar(50), @recid bigint, @maxservers int, @status int, @loadbalance int, @workload int, @serverid int OUTPUT as declare @first as nvarchar(50) declare @max_val as int begin select top 1 @first = SERVERID from SYSSERVERSESSIONS WITH (UPDLOCK, READPAST) where STATUS = 0 and AOSID = @aosId and INSTANCE_NAME = @instanceName if (select count(SERVERID) from SYSSERVERSESSIONS where SERVERID IN (@first)) > 0 begin update SYSSERVERSESSIONS set AOSID = @aosId, VERSION = @version, INSTANCE_NAME = @instanceName, LOGINDATETIME = dateadd(ms, -datepart(ms,getutcdate()), getutcdate()), LASTUPDATEDATETIME = dateadd(ms, -datepart(ms,getutcdate()), getutcdate()), STATUS = @status, WORKLOAD = @workload, AOSACCOUNT = SUSER_SNAME() where SERVERID IN (@first) and ( ((select count(SERVERID) from SYSSERVERSESSIONS where STATUS = 1 and LOADBALANCE = 0) < @maxservers) OR LOADBALANCE != 0 ) if @@ROWCOUNT = 0 select @serverid = 0 else select @serverid = @first end else begin if (select count(SERVERID) from SYSSERVERSESSIONS WITH (UPDLOCK) where STATUS = 1 and LOADBALANCE = 0) >= @maxservers select @serverid = 0 else begin if (select count(SERVERID) from SYSSERVERSESSIONS) = 0 select @max_val = 1 else select @max_val = max(SERVERID)+1 from SYSSERVERSESSIONS insert into SYSSERVERSESSIONS(SERVERID, AOSID, INSTANCE_NAME, VERSION, LOGINDATETIME, LASTUPDATEDATETIME, STATUS, RECID, LOADBALANCE, WORKLOAD, AOSACCOUNT) values(@max_val, @aosId, @instanceName, @version, dateadd(ms, -datepart(ms,getutcdate()), getutcdate()), dateadd(ms, -datepart(ms,getutcdate()), getutcdate()), @status, @recid, @loadbalance, @workload, SUSER_SNAME()) select @serverid = @max_val end end end 

GO 

CREATE procedure [dbo].[CREATEUSERSESSIONS] @clientType int, @sessionType int, @serverid int, @versionid int, @userid nvarchar(8), @lanExt nvarchar(10), @manExt nvarchar(10), @computerName nvarchar(80), @sid nvarchar(124), @recid bigint, @startId int, @maxusers int, @licenseType int, @masterId int, @maxClientId int, @dataPartition nvarchar(8), @sessionid int OUTPUT, @loginDateTime datetime OUTPUT as declare @return_val as int declare @first as int declare @max_val as int declare @counter as int begin select @sessionid = -1 select @max_val = -1 select @counter = 0 select @loginDateTime = dateadd(ms, -datepart(ms,getutcdate()), getutcdate()) if(not exists(select * from SYSSERVERSESSIONS WITH (NOLOCK) where SERVERID = @serverid AND Status = 1)) begin select @sessionid = -2 return end select @first = min(SESSIONID) from SYSCLIENTSESSIONS WITH (UPDLOCK,READPAST) where STATUS = 0 and SESSIONID > @maxClientId and SESSIONID <> @masterId if (select count(*) from SYSCLIENTSESSIONS where SESSIONID IN (@first)) > 0 begin if (@licenseType = 0) begin update SYSCLIENTSESSIONS set STATUS = 1, VERSION = @versionid, SERVERID = @serverid, USERID = @userid, LOGINDATETIME = @loginDateTime, SID = @sid, USERLANGUAGE = @lanExt, HELPLANGUAGE = @manExt, CLIENTTYPE = @clientType, SESSIONTYPE = @sessionType, CLIENTCOMPUTER = @computerName, DATAPARTITION = @dataPartition where SESSIONID IN (@first) end else if (@licenseType = 1) begin update SYSCLIENTSESSIONS set STATUS = 1, VERSION = @versionid, SERVERID = @serverid, USERID = @userid, LOGINDATETIME = @loginDateTime, SID = @sid, USERLANGUAGE = @lanExt, HELPLANGUAGE = @manExt, CLIENTTYPE = @clientType, SESSIONTYPE = @sessionType, CLIENTCOMPUTER = @computerName, DATAPARTITION = @dataPartition where SESSIONID IN (@first) and ((select count(SESSIONID) from SYSCLIENTSESSIONS where CLIENTTYPE = @clientType and ((STATUS = 1) or (STATUS = 2))) < @maxusers) end else if (@licenseType = 2) begin update SYSCLIENTSESSIONS set STATUS = 1, VERSION = @versionid, SERVERID = @serverid, USERID = @userid, LOGINDATETIME = @loginDateTime, SID = @sid, USERLANGUAGE = @lanExt, HELPLANGUAGE = @manExt, CLIENTTYPE = @clientType, SESSIONTYPE = @sessionType, CLIENTCOMPUTER = @computerName, DATAPARTITION = @dataPartition where SESSIONID IN (@first) and ( (select count(SESSIONID) from SYSCLIENTSESSIONS where CLIENTTYPE = @clientType and (USERID = @userid) and ((STATUS = 1) or (STATUS = 2))) > 0 or (select count(distinct USERID) from SYSCLIENTSESSIONS where CLIENTTYPE = @clientType and ((STATUS = 1) or (STATUS = 2))) < @maxusers ) end if @@ROWCOUNT = 0 select @sessionid = 0 else select @sessionid = @first end else begin if (@licenseType = 1) begin if (select count(SESSIONID) from SYSCLIENTSESSIONS where CLIENTTYPE = @clientType and ((STATUS = 1) or (STATUS = 2))) >= @maxusers select @sessionid = 0 end else if (@licenseType = 2) begin if ( ((select count(distinct USERID) from SYSCLIENTSESSIONS where CLIENTTYPE = @clientType and ((STATUS = 1) or (STATUS = 2))) >= @maxusers) and ((select count(SESSIONID) from SYSCLIENTSESSIONS where CLIENTTYPE = @clientType and (USERID = @userid) and ((STATUS = 1) or (STATUS = 2))) = 0) ) select @sessionid = 0 end if (@sessionid = -1) or (@licenseType = 0) begin while (@sessionid = -1 and @counter < 5) begin set @counter = @counter + 1 if (select count(SESSIONID) from SYSCLIENTSESSIONS WITH (UPDLOCK) where STATUS = 0 or STATUS = 1 or STATUS = 2 or STATUS = 3) = 0 select @max_val = @startId else select @max_val = max(SESSIONID)+1 from SYSCLIENTSESSIONS WITH (UPDLOCK) if (@max_val > 65535) select @sessionid = -3 else begin insert into SYSCLIENTSESSIONS(SESSIONID, SERVERID, VERSION, LOGINDATETIME, USERID, SID, USERLANGUAGE, HELPLANGUAGE, CLIENTTYPE, SESSIONTYPE, RECID, CLIENTCOMPUTER, STATUS, DATAPARTITION) values(@max_val, @serverid, @versionid, @loginDateTime, @userid, @sid, @lanExt, @manExt, @clientType, @sessionType, @recid, @computerName, 1, @dataPartition) if @@ROWCOUNT = 0 begin select @sessionid = -1 end else select @sessionid = @max_val end end end end end 

GO

D365 F&O SSRS Report drillthrough links

Because I always forget the syntax, here is a sample of a drill through link in an SSRS report 

=Microsoft.Dynamics.Framework.Reports.BuiltInMethods.GenerateDrillThroughLink(Parameters!AX_ReportContext.Value, Parameters!AX_UserContext.Value, "TWESalesTableMenuItem", "Display", "TWESalesTable", "SalesId", Fields!SalesId.Value)

If it requires more than one parameter:

=Microsoft.Dynamics.Framework.Reports.BuiltInMethods.GenerateDrillThroughLink(Parameters!AX_ReportContext.Value, Parameters!AX_UserContext.Value, "TWESalesTableMenuItem", "Display", "TWESalesTable", "TWECustGroup", Fields!CustGroup.Value, "TWEOrderStatus", "Open order")

D365 EventLog error ID1014: The signature is not valid. The data may have been tampered with.

I just found an error message in the event log of an D365 F&O cloud environment that was confusing me. For me the environment was running but I found out that a colleague got the error message: 

Error 500: There is a problem with the server

Sorry, the server has encountered an error. It is either not available or it can't respond at this time. Please contact your system administrator.

This resulted in the error message in the event log. after he switched to another browser it did no longer appear. Clearing the browser cache should also solve this problem.

Microsoft-Dynamics-AX-SystemRuntime

exceptionMessage

ID1014: The signature is not valid. The data may have been tampered with.

exceptionSource

System.IdentityModel

exceptionStackTrace

at System.IdentityModel.RsaSignatureCookieTransform.Decode(Byte[] encoded) at System.IdentityModel.Tokens.SessionSecurityTokenHandler.ApplyTransforms(Byte[] cookie, Boolean outbound) at System.IdentityModel.Tokens.SessionSecurityTokenHandler.ReadToken(XmlReader reader, SecurityTokenResolver tokenResolver) at System.IdentityModel.Tokens.SessionSecurityTokenHandler.ReadToken(Byte[] token, SecurityTokenResolver tokenResolver) at System.IdentityModel.Services.SessionAuthenticationModule.ReadSessionTokenFromCookie(Byte[] sessionCookie) at System.IdentityModel.Services.SessionAuthenticationModule.TryReadSessionTokenFromCookie(SessionSecurityToken& sessionToken) at System.IdentityModel.Services.SessionAuthenticationModule.OnAuthenticateRequest(Object sender, EventArgs eventArgs) at System.Web.HttpApplication.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStepImpl(IExecutionStep step) at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously)

url

/

Method

GET

httpStatusCode

500

userGuid

{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}

Parameter _reportName cannot be null or empty - in D365 F&O

lately we receive the error message "Parameter _reportName cannot be null or empty" when trying to print a report from a journal with view copy or view original. Reprinting using print management is working fine. 

This issue only occurred in our SAT environment in all other environments, Dev, Test and Build it was working as expected.

In older days (AX 2012) I just did a full compile when I got this error. But what to do now? 

After a bit of debugging the result was quite interesting: The print management framework is looking for a report format in the table PrintMgmtReportFormat. The select statement has a where clause which looks for the report and requires the field system to be true. In our DB somehow the reports we were looking for had system flag = no so the _reportName was really empty.

So for everyone who is getting this error message in D365 F&O check the PrintMgmtReportFormat table.