Administration – Setup – System – Checklists – Upgrade checklist.

It shows you:
- Database server
- Database name
- Application folder
- Layers in the application

Upgrade Checklist

From the website:

Launchy is a free windows and linux utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.

And it really does just that. You won’t be using the Start menu anymore once you’ve installed this tool.

You can download it here.

Once you’ve installed it, you will see… nothing, untill you hold Alt and tap Space.
Then you see something like this:

Once you start typing, say “Dynami…”, Launchy searches for programs that match the string you are typing. Tap Enter to launch the program.

You can use Launchy to launch specific AX configurations by creating a folder that contains axc files.

Go to the AX Client Configuration Tool, create your configurations and export them using Manage – Safe configuration file to store them in a folder.

You can setup Launchy to monitor this folder by holding Alt, tapping Space, right clicking on the Launchy window and clicking Options. On the tab Catalog, you should see something like the screenshot below. As you can see, I have already added the folder and the extension axc to the list.

Launchy options screen

Now you only need to click the Rescan Catalog button, and you’re set to go.

The end result should be something like this:

You should be able to launch right into any AX application with minimal effort now.
And of course, you can use Launchy to launch any other program as well.

Links:
Launchy website: launchy.net
Inspiration for this post: SmartStart 3000 Central

An instance of Microsoft Dynamics AX Configuration is already running. Only one instance can be run at a time.

You get this message because, obviously, the utility is already running, and you can’t start two instances. So, just click ok, look in the task bar for the Configuration Utility, and go from there.

But… but… There is no AX configuration utility active!
Most likely, you are logged into a machine using remote desktop, where an other user has the configuration utility active.

You can check this in using the Task Manager.
1. Right click the Task Bar and start the Task manager,
2. On the processes tab, make sure you see the processes for all users (there’s a checkbox or a button at the bottom) ,
3. Now look for the process called AxCliCfg.exe,
4. You can contact the user to ask him to close the Configuration Utility, or you can kill the process yourself.