From the Microsoft Dynamics AX Blogs: AX 2012 R2 Outlook Sync; SSRS Tips; XLNT; Word Integration; AX 2012 Permission Tips

A selection of the latest insight from the Microsoft Dynamics AX blogs:

• Outlook Contact Field Synchronization with Dynamics AX 2012 R2;
• SSRS Tip: Take Care that VS and AX Client are in the Same Layer for SSRS - Dynamics AX 2012;
• XLNT - A Most "Excellent" Framework for X++;
• Integration of Dynamics AX with Microsoft Word;
• AX 2012 - Assigning Permissions to Users through Roles, Privileges and Duties

Outlook Contact Field Synchronization with Dynamics AX 2012 R2: James Wang of the Dynamics AX support team says he recently ran across the need to expand fields that automatically sync from Dynamics AX 2012 R2 to Outlook contact records. It is a very time consuming and labor intense process to manually map fields on each Contact record selected for Outlook Synchronization.

"Here is the scenario:

"1. Business Fax is not a field synchronized from AX to Outlook through standard out-of-the-box mapping.

"2. By default, the Outlook Contact card displays the Primary Number selected in AX but the Business Telephone Number field is not populated on the Outlook contact form. I want the Primary Telephone to show both on the Outlook Contact card and form as the Business Telephone Number."

You can find the solution here.

SSRS Tip: Take Care that VS and AX Client are in the Same Layer for SSRS - Dynamics AX 2012: On his blog, Kamalakannan Elangovan says that sometimes when you use configuration files to start your AX client like this in