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Applies To: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Feature Pack, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
If you are installing Microsoft Dynamics AX components for the first time, and cumulative updates, binary hotfixes, or service packs for Microsoft Dynamics AX are available, you can incorporate the updates into the installation by using a process that is known as slipstreaming. When updates are slipstreamed, Setup automatically detects and applies them. In this way, the time that is required to install the whole Microsoft Dynamics AX solution is reduced.
Note
Components that were previously installed are not updated during a later slipstream installation. For example, an instance of Application Object Server (AOS) is installed on a server. Later, you add updates to the installation source, and you also install another Microsoft Dynamics AX component on the same server. In this scenario, the existing AOS instance is not updated.
You can slipstream the following kinds of updates:
- Cumulative updates
- Binary hotfixes
- Help content updates
- Service packs
Application (database) hotfixes cannot be included in the slipstreaming process. They must be installed by using AxUpdate.exe.
The Updates folder
Before you install Microsoft Dynamics AX, you copy the DVD to a network location. This lets you modify the installation media to create a slipstream installation. Incorporate updates into the installation process by copying files to the Updates folder in the shared network location.
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For more information about how to install Microsoft Dynamics AX from a shared network folder, see Create a shared directory for installation.
In the Updates folder, create a subfolder for each update package that you download. We recommend that you use the Knowledge Base article numbers of the updates as the names of the subfolders. For example, for the update that is associated with Knowledge Base article number 123456, create a subfolder that is named KB123456.
Extract each update into the appropriate subfolder. The following illustration shows an example of the recommended folder structure:
Any time that you apply a cumulative update package or a binary hotfix to your environment, we strongly recommend that you add the installation package to the Updates folder. This practice ensures that you can deploy new servers, clients, and other components of the correct version quickly. You should also make a copy of the updated installation media per your system recovery strategy.
The slipstreaming process
The following is a high-level overview of the slipstreaming process:
- To find cumulative updates:
- For AX 2012 R3, go to Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services, and after selecting a project, click Updates. In the Updates to include with new installations section, select the slipstreamable update package that you want, and download it.
- For AX 2012 R2 or earlier, visit the hotfix pages for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 or Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 on the CustomerSource web site. Logon is required.
- Create a shared network location from which to install Microsoft Dynamics AX.
- In the Updates folder, create a subfolder for each update package that you download. Then extract each update into the appropriate subfolder.
- Run Setup and select the components that you want to install. Setup detects and installs the updates.Follow the usual installation procedures to install Microsoft Dynamics AX components. For detailed installation instructions for each Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 component, see Install Microsoft Dynamics AX.To install updates for Help content, you must select the Help Server component, and then select the updated content sets on the Language and content selection page.
Applies To: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2
This topic describes the new features of the update installer in Microsoft Dynamics AX.
New features in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3
For AX 2012 R3, the update installer that is used for cumulative updates or a group of the most recent updates is now available in Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services (LCS). To install a group of updates on an existing system, follow these steps:
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- Sign in to LCS, click a project, and then click an environment.
- Under Recommended updates, click the tile for the type of update to install.
- You can search the list of updates, and also filter it by criteria such as module, license code, and country/region.
- Click an update to view details of the update and an impact analysis.
- Click Add hotfix to package to add the selected update and any dependent updates to the download package.You can also select multiple updates in the left pane, and then click Add to add all of them to the download package at the same time.
- Click Download package to review the updates that you selected and a cumulative impact analysis.
- Download your custom update package, and install the updates on the appropriate computers in the environment.
Groups of updates that can be used for slipstream installations can also be downloaded from Lifecycle Services.
Important
Updates intended for slipstreaming cannot be installed by using the update installer, nor can updates intended for use with the update installer be slipstreamed.
New features in cumulative update 7 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2
We have revised the interface of the update installer (AXUpdate.exe) and Impact Analysis Wizard (AXImpactAnalysis.exe) for cumulative update 7 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2. We have also modified the software update checklist. The following features have been added.
- Database (application) updates can be installed either through express or advanced mode. In express mode, all appropriate hotfixes are installed.Advanced mode offers many new features, including:
- Filtering available hotfixes based on module, country/region or configuration key, or business processes imported from Lifecycle Services (if your organization has a project with business processes configured in Lifecycle Services).
- The ability to export a list of updates to a file, so that you can later use the file to speed up applying application updates to another computer.
- The Impact analysis wizard now enables you to select specific layers to analyze. To have access to this functionality, you must install application hotfix KB 2885584 from the cumulative update, and compile the application before running the Impact analysis wizard.
- In the software update checklist, the Merge code automatically checklist item was added. This feature simplifies the process of installing hotfixes and fixing conflicts between hotfixes and the customizations in an environment. It compares the model elements in the customization layer with the corresponding elements in the hotfix and SYS layers. Where there are differences in the code between these elements, the feature attempts to resolve the differences in a way that preserves both the customization and hotfix functionality. This is not always possible, and some conflicts will require manual effort to resolve. All changes are made in the active customization layer.When conflicts are resolved, all of the code from each layer involved in the merge appears in the customization layer with appropriate annotations. Code that the tool does not evaluate as applicable is commented, while code that is applicable and should be included in the result is left uncommented. This preserves the information used to make the merge decision so that it can be easily reviewed while still fixing compilation and functional issues in the code that resulted from hotfix installation. When conflicts cannot be resolved automatically, a TODO comment is added to the code and the code is annotated.The typical process for using this feature is:
- After installing an update, open the client in the lowest layer with customizations that you want to merge hotfix changes into.
- Run the software update checklist.
- Compile the application.
- Click Merge code automatically.
- Specify the title for the project to be created when prompted, and then run the tool.After the comparison has completed, a form displays the results of the merge. For changes that were merged successfully, the changes should be reviewed to ensure that they are correct. For changes that remain in conflict, the user must manually investigate and merge conflicts.
- After resolving all conflicts, compile the application again and perform whatever functional testing is required to ensure that all conflicts have been merged.
- Repeat for each layer that contains customizations.
- The Data Import/Export Framework can now be installed by using the update installer.
New features in cumulative update 6 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2
The following features have been added to the installation wizard for cumulative update 6 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2.
Database (application) updates can be installed either through express or advanced mode. In express mode, all appropriate hotfixes are installed.
Advanced mode supports the following features
- Ability to select applicable application updates only.
- Support for filtering hotfixes to install by module, country/region or configuration key.
- Conflict summary for each hotfix displays the number of potential conflicts for a hotfix.
- Conflict details provide further information about potential conflicts.