How to update PU20

Step 1: Download PU20 from LCS

Step 2: Copy to a folder that is close to the root. When we run the command, there are going to be many subfolders with long path, the command might fail due to long path. To be safe, I copy to Temp folder like below

Step 3: Run cmd as Admin and use this command “AxupdateInstaller.exe quickInstall”

Step 4: Run “Axupdateinstaller.exe list” command to validate

Enjoy

How to find out all the AX KBs installed on your machine

A client asked me today how to find out all the KBs  were applied to one of its environments. Normally I would say go to “About Microsoft Dynamics AX” then “Show installed models”. However, in some cases not all KBs are shown in this form.

Here is another fine way you can find out :

Control Panel > Programs and Features > View installed updates

To find out more about version numbers and published patches, please use the link below. Microsoft team keeps constantly updated build numbers.

Microsoft Dynamics AX build numbers

Label does not update after updating a hotfix

When I installed CU7 to my Ax2012R2 environment,  label did not update correctly and this bothered me so much. What I did to fix this is

1. Stop the AOS
2. Navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\50\Application\Appl\[Instance Name].
3. Delete all *.ald files. The ALD files “Application Label Data”
4. Start the AOS

Before

After