Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Installation and Configuration

Over the past weeks, I was involved in installing and configuring Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.
I was thinking to document the series of post installing of all major components of
AX 2012 – Database, AOS,  EP (SharePoint 2010),  SSRS Reporting Services, SSAS, and Business Intelligence.

First, I setup several machines that running Window Server 2008 R2 with service pack 1.




·         Server  A - AOS
    • Window Server 2008 R2 SP1
    • RAM 8 GB
    • Minimum Hard Drive 200 GB
    • Installed the Prerequisite
      • Microsoft Net Framework 4
      • Hotfix for Net Fix 4.0
      • Open XML SDK For Microsoft Office
      • VC++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable (x64
      • VC++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable (x86)
      • VSTOR 40
      • Window Identify Foundation 

·         Server B - Database
    • Window Server 2008 R2 SP1
    • Minimum Hard Drive 200 GB
    • RAM 8 GB
    • Installed Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 

·         Server C – Enterprise Portal
    • Window Server 2008 R2 SP1
    • RAM 8 GB
    • Minimum Hard drive 200 GB
    • Installed Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Next, I  login into Server A and started  with Dynamics Installation AOS (Application Object Server) and Database.  I had captured the screenshots along the way as this will help me  when I re-setup DEV, TEST and PRODUCTION Environment


Step 1 – Double click the Setup.exe




Step 2 – Click on Validate System Requirements 



 

Step 3 – Completed the Dynamics AX 2012 Prerequisites software installation
Step 4 – Reselect Validate System Requirements and select Database and Application Object Server (AOS).  Then click on Validate




 
Step 5 – Select Install àMicrosoft Dynamics AX Components

 
Step 6 – Select Database and Application Object Server (AOS)
 
Step 7 -  Accept the License terms then click Next

Step 8 – Click Next


Step 9 -  Select Custom Installation then click Next

Step 10 – Click Next 
 
Step 11 – Select Create database

 
Step 12 – Click Install
 
 
 

Step 11 -   I select all the Microsoft Dynamic AX2012 application foundation model. Then click next
 
 

Step 12 -    Enter
  • Instance Name: INDONESIA_AX2012_DB_Test
  • TCP/IP Port: 2712

 

Step 13 -      Provide AOS Service Account:

·         SQLINDONESIA\AX2012AOSAdmin and password.   Then click Next.