From the Microsoft Dynamics AX blogs: Power options; Automated builds; Organizational framework review; Upgrade planning

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

• Dynamics AX - Power Options;
• How We Manage Development - Automated Builds;
• Organization Model Framework Overview in Dynamics AX 2012;
• My AX 2012 Upgrade Project Plan - Planning Phase

Dynamics AX - Power Options

On the Microsoft Dynamics AX Support blog, Kim Truelsen, a Microsoft Escalation Engineer explains that the power options on the servers and client machines have a major impact on the performance for CPU bound processes.

Here are some examples Truelsen collected based on experience from customer engagements.

"Example 1: In Dynamics AX POS the scanning of an Item took 2-3 seconds. After changing the Windows power option to High performance the same process was below 1 second.

"Example 2: Update Transfer orders with 400 lines took 16 minutes. We changed the Windows power option to High Performance and the process took 12 minutes.

"Then changing the BIOS to Max Performance, the process came down to 4 minutes."

But how did she find out that the BIOS power option was incorrect? You can find the answer here.

How We Manage Development - Automated Builds

Over at his Dynamics AX Musings blog, Joris de Gruyter writes what he calls "a wall of text" about this subject. In his post he focuses on his company's ...