The use of the shortcut key Ctrl+F is very familiar within all Windows applications. When I look at all released versions of Microsoft Dynamics AX this shortcut had the same functionality in all versions, except for Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0. On a grid, we had to use Ctrl+K instead. The shortcut Ctrl+K is still used in AX 2012 and has slightly different functionality. But what is the exact difference between these shortcuts?

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Within a certain installation we had the problem that continuous number sequences did not work. The number pulled from the number sequence remained at 0. When setting the number sequence to not continuous it started numbering. Other environments were working correct so what could be the problem?
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As announced lately on LinkedIn and Twitter I would review the book Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Administration Cookbook.

The contents of the book is about administer and maintain your Dynamics AX 2012 environment in an efficiently way.  As experienced Microsoft Dynamics AX professional I assumed I was already familiar with the contents. Well… I learned some things myself as well.
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Unfortunately I am not able to attend the Microsoft Dynamics AX Technical conference this edition. The contents of this conference is totally focused on Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 which is expected to be released within 2 months. I was able to be part of the beta program for testing this new version and already had a look on the new features.

Now the Technical conference is started, all news are coming out via several blog sites and also on Twitter. Some interesting announcements were made during the keynotes and some sessions. This blog post will contain some summarized information of the AX news from yesterday and already some sessions from today. It also contains some valuable links to information from the Technical conference and AX 2012 R3.
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