Ax Installation Guide

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Installation Guide
Microsoft Corporation Published: August 2011

Microsoft Dynamics AX Microsoft Dynamics is a line of integrated, adaptable business management solutions that enables you and your people to make business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft Dynamics works like and with familiar Microsoft software, automating and streamlining financial,customer relationship and supply chain processes in a way that helps you drive business success. U.S. and Canada Toll Free 1-888-477-7989 Worldwide +1-701-281-6500 www.microsoft.com/dynamics This document is provided “as-is”. Information and views expressed in this document, including URL and other Internet Web site references, may change without notice. You bear the risk of using it. Someexamples depicted herein are provided for illustration only and are fictitious. No real association or connection is intended or should be inferred. This document does not provide you with any legal rights to any intellectual property in any Microsoft product. You may copy and use this document for your internal, reference purposes. You may modify this document for your internal, referencepurposes. © 2011 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Active Directory, Excel, MSDN, SharePoint, SQL Server, Visual Studio, Windows, Windows PowerShell, Windows Server, and Windows Vista are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Installation GuideMicrosoft Dynamics AX

Table of Contents
Prepare for the installation ............................................................................................................................................................... 5 Overview of the installation......................................................................................................................................................... 6 What's New: Installation ........................................................................................................................................................... 6 Servers in the Microsoft Dynamics AX environment ..................................................................................................... 8 Microsoft Dynamics AX components............................................................................................................................... 10 Installation types ....................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Before you begin........................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Pre-installation checklist ........................................................................................................................................................ 13 Create service accounts.......................................................................................................................................................... 14 Verify that you have the required permissions for installation .............................................................................. 16 Check prerequisites.................................................................................................................................................................. 17 Create a shared directory for installation ........................................................................................................................ 19 Install the Microsoft Dynamics AX databases ........................................................................................................................ 20 Install server and web server components...