Wednesday, November 12, 2008

AX 2009 SP1

I recently got information telling that Service Pack 1 for AX 2009 is pretty close to RTM. I don't have any information about what it contains, but let's hope SSAS and SSRS for SQL Server 2008 is fully supported.

Maybe some more information will be published during the upcoming Convergence conference in Copenhagen (November 19 - 20).

In addition Microsoft has released at least one kernel hot fix for AX 2009 with reference to the "non existing" KB article 958328. It' still hard to find any information about this hot fix, but I know Microsoft is working on the KB article. As usual, hot fixes are provided directly from Premier Support (or other official Microsoft support channels), while the KB articles still are published on Partner and/or Customer Source. Kernel hot fixes are distributed as a set of MSP files which also is a good thing as I see it.

With this said, our experience so far has been pretty good and the quality of the RTM release seems to be better that 80/20 (we haven't yet experienced any big issues except for the technical issues described in an earlier post). So at this stage and after working with the release for almost 5 months, it looks as a big step in the right direction. We are still working with AIF and the BizTalk adapter, and except for some minor issues, we have been able to proceed as planned on our current project deliveries.

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