Warehouse Mobile Device Portal - HTTP Error 503: The service is unavailable

After the installation of the Warehouse Mobile Device Portal I tried to open it and got the follwoing error:

Service Unavailbale - HTTP Error 503: The service is unavailable 

 

After some checks in the IIS Manager I found out that the site was started but the application pool was not. So I tried to start it which didn't work due to the fact that the user that was provided during the setup of the portal was not added in the application pool. After adding the user information the service could be started without any problems and the Warehouse Mobile Device Portal is working as expected.

SharePoint 2013 - Secure Store Service creation of new key

If you create a new key for the secure store service in sharepoint central administration and you get an error when you try to create it.
Keep in mind that this only works with the SharePoint pool admin. So start an instance of internet explorer with the admin user and try again.

AX - Client and Server Configuration - Registry

Sometimes you need to modify client or server configuration directly within the registry. Therfor you need to navigate to the following nodes:

AX Server Configuation:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dynamics Server\"Ax Version"\Configuration

AX Cleint Configuration:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dynamics\6.0\Configuration

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dynamics\6.0\Configuration

Deutsche E-Bilanz - XBRL Germany

While searching for some informations about the german "E-Bilanz" electronical Balance I stumbled across the series of these four Videos. I think they are quite interessting.

XBRL Germany - Part 1: Create an XBRL Entity
XBRL Germany - Part 2: Create reports with XBRL elements

XBRL Germany - Part 3: Populate Global Common Data

XBRL Germany - Part 4: Filing the XBRL instance document

New X++ Blog out there

Yes, I know there are a lot of AX Blogs out there and several of them describe the challanges that an AX developer meets in his daily work. Lately I found this new and quite interessting blog from a colleague:

http://robscode.onl/

Update AX 2012 Labels through SQL

If you need to replace a word within all  Labels of a layer there is a very easy way using a SQL command:

USE TWIAX_model
UPDATE ModelElementLabel
    SET Text = REPLACE(Text, 'Hafen', 'Port')
    WHERE (Module = 'SYP' OR Module = 'SYS') AND Language = 'de'

This SQL command will replace the word 'Hafen' in all Labels of the SYS and SYP layer in german label file with the word 'Port'.

After execution of this command it is required to stop the AOS and delete the *.ald files in the server folder:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\Server\TWIAX\bin\Application\Appl\Standard

Afterwards restart AOS again.

Fix Windows 8 when it's not booting

Just a post to remember what to do when the harddrive is unable to boot windows 8 after playing around with partitions in linux :)

I tried to use the repair function within the windows 8 installation and got the following message:

Windows 8.1 auffrischen – Fehler “Das Laufwerk ist gesperrt, bitte entsperren Sie das Laufwerk”

To fix it open the command prompt and use these commands:

• bootrec /fixmbr 
• bootrec /fixboot 
• bootrec /scanos 
• bootrec /rebuildbcd

Restart and windows should be able to boot again. If not run chkdsk

• chkdsk C: /f /x /r