AX7 aka Rainier , The most awaited version of Dynamics AX

Hi Folks,

Very soon we all are going to meet with AX7, by the end of this year it must be out in market. Initially this is going to be cloud only, with Azure you need LCS account to deploy this on cloud. In this version MS going to introduce many major/minor changes in their product like

- Initially there is on premises deployment, only cloud is the only option.  

- Development will happen in Visual studio only. (I guess we need the ultimate version only)

- New AOT design

- Totally web based UI, no rich client.

- No more life for Enterprise portal.

I will keep you posted about the updates on AX7.

Thanks-
Harry

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Restore the DB, showing DB in use

Hi Folks,

Recently I was facing some issue while restoring AX database, whenever I try to restore the Transactional DB its show error "DB is use" while actually this DB is not used anywhere. Than I try to take take the database offline, But again there was one other issue.
Same issue again DB offline taking very long time.
I tried below steps and this worked for me. :)
Step 1: Try to run below two queries in same given sequence.

i. ALTER DATABASE <DBNAME> SET OFFLINE WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE

ii. ALTER DATABASE <DBNAME> SET Offline

Step 2: Now try to take offline manually.

Step 3: Restore the DB.
Step 4: Some time after doing restoration/backup DB will not work.
Than u need to roll back above query operation
ALTER DATABASE <DBNAME> SET online WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE
ALTER DATABASE <DBNAME> SET online.
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AX DB restoration: Database goes into “Restoring” state for long

-Harry