With partner source and customer source credentials, you can login in lifecycle services to create a
Azure based Virtual machines. If you don’t have Azure subscription get register.
At the time of writing this article, you can get free trail of credit of 200 $ on azure services.
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For deploying Dynamics Ax 2012 R3, prerequisites
- Partner source or customer source login.
- Azure services subscription.
Now for configure Dynamics Ax 2012 R3 VM you have to perform following steps
Login to https://lcs.dynamics.com/, with partner resource / customer source credentials
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Create a new Project
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When new project is create click to open detail page and one of the options select Cloud based environments
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Now from next step download the management certificate.
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Now log in to Azure portal.
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/
When you successfully login click on settings
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When Settings page open click to management certificates
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And load the certificate.
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New Dynamics Subscription is added.
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Now go back to Lifecycle services page and login Start step of dynamics Ax
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From next step select demo version, because free subscription did not allow you to load testing and development environment.
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Enter the name of your Dynamics Ax environment. I love the word “Dynamicworlds”. I used it.
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Check the enabled check box and press next button. The deployment process is just started
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This take almost one hour to ready the environment. Wait until it become deployed.
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Now go to Azure portal and
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Now from select the virtual machine click on connect below to connect to remote desktop.
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