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Upgrading to AX2012 R2 from AX 2012: At Yet Another Dynamics AX Blog, self-proclaimed "friendly geek," Tommy Skaue, shares his story about upgrading to AX2012 R2 from AX 2012 (RTM) without Feature Pack, but with CU4 instead. The upgrade is supported for AX2012 with or without Feature Pack, and you need at least CU3 installed.

Because he already had a working environment with AX2012 on CU4, and code in ISV, VAR, CUS and USR, Skaue says he was ready to begin. Skaue says he has a FPK-layer with Data Migration Framework elements, but he's going to remove it before the in-place upgrade.

The upgrade from an existing AX2012 RTM (version 6.0.x.x) to AX2012 R2 (version 6.2.x.x / 6.2.158.0) is best done in-place. This means we want to take our existing application and code and upgrade it directly on top of the old version. But before we can do this, we need to prepare an R2 compatible application code so we ensure no data loss. This is the time consuming part of the upgrade, as it involves installation of a separate R2 environments and developers need to go through any custom code that needs to be adjusted in case it doesn't compile on top of the new R2 SYS layer.

You can read about the upgrade process on a high level here.

Committed Costs in Project Management in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012: In a recent blog post, Sandeep Chaudhury says that managing costs efficiently is one of the main ways of ensuring that a project is as profitable as possible, especially in a fixed-price contract where the revenue ...