Dynamics Installation -AX server

Dynamics AX installation

Now we can set up Dynamics AX. Find the Setup.exe file in your Dynamics AX installation folder and run it:

1. The Microsoft Dynamics wizard opens. Click the Microsoft Dynamics AX components menu button. 
2. The Microsoft Dynamics AX Setup wizard with the Welcome page opens. Click Next to continue.
3. The License terms page opens, select the I accept the license terms check box and click Next. (This page opens only if you run installation for the first time.)
4. The Customer Experience Improvement Program page opens. Select what fits you and click Next. (This page opens only if you run installation for the first time.)
5. The Select a file location page opens. I leave the default File location value (“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60”). Click Next. (This page opens only if you run installation for the first time.)
6. The Ready to install page opens. Clicks the Install Setup will install the support files. (This page opens only if you run installation for the first time.)
7. The Select an installation option page opens. Select the Microsoft Dynamics AX radio button and click Next.
8. The Select installation type page opens. To see what will be installed, select the Custom installation typeradio button.
9. The Select components window appears. Select the following components and click Next
   • Database
   • Application Object Server (AOS)
   • Reporting Services extension (it is used for reports). Info window will appears click Ok.
   •  Client
   • Debugger (for developers)
   • Visual studio tools (for developer for SSRS report development)
   • .Net Business Connector
   • Management utilities
   
10. The Prerequisite Validation page opens. I have 7 Errors. 
11. I have resolved all errors by clicking the Link button and installing all required components. Click Next.
12. The Select a file location page opens. I leave the default File location value (“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60”). Click Next.
13. The Select databases page opens. Select the Create new databases radio button and click Next.
14. The Create new databases page opens. The Server name contains the SQL server name (was installed in the previous topic). All fields will be populated automatically, so I leave it as is. Click Next. 
15. The Select additional models page opens. The Foundation model is mandatory and selected. This model contains all metadata and the en-us label file (English United states). If you need additional language, select the Foundation Labels model. In this case all available languages are set up. Click Next.
16. The Configure an Application Object Server (AOS) instance page opens. All fields are filled in by default. If the fields’ values are acceptable to you leave them as they are. The TCP/Ip port can be changed later in the Dynamics AX Server configuration. Click Next. 
17. The Specify an AOS account page opens. You can specify your domain account or use the NT Authority local account for AOS. AOS will be installed as a Windows Service. As it often happens in production environment, the new domain user is created and assigned to the AOS. The AOS account can be changed later in the Windows Services. I will specify my domain account as it has all necessary rights and click Next.
18. The Select client preference page opens. Here the Dynamics AX Client language is specified. I have set up the English language, the Developer installation type. Now select the Create a desktop shortcut checkbox, and click Next.
19. The Specify Business Connector proxy account information page opens. Specify the domain user that will be used by the .Net Business connector to log in to Dynamics AX. Business connector is used by the SSRS reports. I will set up my domain account and click Next.
20. The Specify a Reporting Services Instance page opens. The Instance name field will be filled in by default. I clear the Deploy report checkbox. I want to check the Dynamics AX report configuration before deploying reports. All in all I will deploy reports to SSRS later in the Load demo data lesson. Click Next.
21. The Prerequisite validation page opens. I have one error – Microsoft Analysis Management Objects. This error is solved by clicking the Link Click Next.
22. The Ready to install page opens. Click Install. This process will take about 1 hour. 
23. When the process is complete, the Setup was not completed page opens.  We can see that Databases were installed successfully and the rest of components were not installed. But, it is not true, if we go to Windows Services, we can find the Microsoft Dynamics AX Object Server service in the Startingstatus. It means that AOS was installed.If we open the summary report, we can find that the wizard assumes that AOS was not installed because “The following error/warning occurred: Time out has expired and the operation has not been completed.”So AOS was installed but not yet started. The rest of components that depend on AOS were not installed also.
24. Finish the Microsoft Dynamics Wizard and wait one more hour till AOS is started.
25. Run the Microsoft Dynamics Wizard
26. The Welcome page opens. Click Next.
27. The Modify Microsoft Dynamics AX installation page opens. Select Add or modify components and click Next.
28. The Add or modify components page opens. Select the following components: Reporting Services extension, Client, Debugger, Visual studio tools, .Net Business Connector, Management utilities and click Next. 
29. The Prerequisite Validation page opens. Since we have already installed all required components, there are no errors. Click Next.
30. The Select client preference page opens. Here, the Dynamics AX Client language is specified. I have set up the English language, Developer installation type. Select the Create a desktop shortcut check box and clickNext.
31. The Specify a location for configuration settings page opens. Select the Save configuration in the registryradio button. If a configuration file will be required, later we can generate it from the Microsoft Dynamics AX Configuration application (it will be available in the Windows Administrative Tools). Click Next
32. The Connect to an AOS instance page opens. Specify the connection parameters that will be used by the Client. I leave the default ones as they fit me. The parameters should match the AOS parameters that were specified in step 16. Note that on this step, the AOS should run (to review the service status go to Windows Services > Microsoft Dynamics AX Object Server). 
33. The Specify Business Connector proxy account information page opens. Specify the domain user that will be used by the .Net Business connector to log in to Dynamics AX. The Business connector is used by the SSRS reports. I will set up my domain account and click Next.
34. The Specify a Reporting Services Instance page opens. The Instance name field will be filled in by default. Again I clear the Deploy report checkbox. I want to check the Dynamics AX report configuration before deploying reports. All in all I will deploy reports to SSRS later in the Load demo data lesson. Click Next.
35. The Connect to a SQL Server Database page opens. Here we should specify the SQL server and the database name where the Dynamics AX database was installed. In my case, it is: 
36. The Prerequisite validation page opens. We already were at this step so now we don’t have any validation errors. Click Next.
37. The Ready to install page opens. Click Install. This process will take about 0.5 hour. 
38. When the setup is complete, the Setup was completed successfully page opens. Click Finish. 
Congratulations! The Dynamics AX 2012 was installed successfully.