Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2009 January 2009 Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................ 9 Service Pack 1 changes ............................................................................................ 10 Electronic signatures ..................................................................................................................................................... 10 Extraordinary depreciation Italy ............................................................................................................................ 10 PRODCOM report Belgium ..................................................................................................................................... 10 VAT declaration Belgium ......................................................................................................................................... 11 Time zone updates ........................................................................................................................................................ 11 Update Enterprise Portal Web sites and migrate Enterprise Portal changes between environments .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 11 Common functionality ............................................................................................. 11 User interface changes................................................................................................................................................. 11 Export to Excel ................................................................................................................................................................ 12 Workflow .......................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Directory view ................................................................................................................................................................. 12 Transaction tracking ..................................................................................................................................................... 13 Combine Intrastat data transactions that have the same tax exempt number ....................................... 13 Select user interface language for the client and Enterprise Portal............................................................. 13 Print management enhancements .......................................................................................................................... 13 Automatically create documentation, presentation, or process diagrams................................................ 13 Batch processing enhancements .............................................................................................................................. 13 Enhanced business intelligence framework ......................................................................................................... 13 Time zone support added .......................................................................................................................................... 14 Workflow support added ............................................................................................................................................ 14 Create multiple sites within a company................................................................................................................. 14 Integration with Communication Server ............................................................................................................... 14 Role centers linked to community sites ................................................................................................................. 14 Setup .......................................................................................................................... 14 Support for localization ............................................................................................................................................... 14 Automated prerequisite installation: ...................................................................................................................... 14 Addition of new components.................................................................................................................................... 14 Support for multiple application instances in the same directory ............................................................... 14 Add, modify, and remove components ................................................................................................................. 15 Improved service and maintenance ........................................................................................................................ 15 Upgrade ..................................................................................................................... 15 Code upgrade ...................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Detect code upgrade conflicts .................................................................................................................................. 15 Upgrade project enhancements ............................................................................................................................... 15 Compare Tool enhancements ................................................................................................................................... 15 Estimation report ........................................................................................................................................................... 15 Data upgrade ....................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Technology enhancements ...................................................................................... 15 Layers ................................................................................................................................................................................. 15 Workflow .......................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Business Connector ....................................................................................................................................................... 16 Version Control System Integration ........................................................................................................................ 16 2 SOFT DYNAMICS AX 2009 XML Documentation .................................................................................................................................................... 16 Reporting Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio ........................................................................................................ 17 Navigation pages ........................................................................................................................................................... 17 Queries and views .......................................................................................................................................................... 18 Composite query ........................................................................................................................................................... 18 Cross company support ............................................................................................................................................... 18 X++ SQL enhancements ............................................................................................................................................. 18 X++ enhancements for CLR interop ....................................................................................................................... 18 Debug a batch job that runs on the AOS ............................................................................................................. 18 Update cross reference by using AT.exe ............................................................................................................... 19 E-signature subsystem support ................................................................................................................................ 19 Update and delete ........................................................................................................................................................ 19 Programming model changes................................................................................................................................... 19 Consume web services ................................................................................................................................................. 19 Performance 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