From the Microsoft Dynamics AX Blogs: 2012 security upgrade tool; POS button shortcuts; DLL deployment; HR in Enterprise Portal

Security Upgrade Advisor Tool for Dynamics AX 2012: Parth Pandya from the Microsoft Dynamics AX Server Team says that the security framework has undergone significant changes between Dynamics AX 2009 and 2012. There is no automatic path for upgrade of security configuration from AX 2009 to AX 2012. "In order to assist the upgrade of security settings, we have written a tool called the Security Upgrade Advisor," he says.

Pandya points out the differences between security in AX 2009 and AX 2012, for things like groups and domains in 2009 and security roles in 2012. You can read more about the upgrade approach here.

Assigning Shortcut Keys to Dynamics AX 2012 POS Buttons: Over at his Tinkerers Notebook blog, Murray Fife says although the POS screens are designed to be touched, you may also want to give the power POS users the ability to navigate through the screens with shortcuts and hot keys on the keyboard.

"In this example we will show how you can easily configure shortcut keys through the POS designer," he begins. The process begins with updating the POS buttons, then selecting the layout to change. You can click here to read the rest of the steps.

Auto-Deploying DLLs and Other Resources - Part 1: On his Dynamics AX Musings blog, Joris de Gruyter says that in his article on .NET Assembly Deployment in AX 2012 he reviewed how assemblies are deployed for Visual Studio projects as well as the CIL generate for X++. ...