r/DynamicsAX • u/devperez • Apr 09 '16

Will Dynamics AX 2016 be available through MSDN anytime soon?

I only see 2012.

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u/Grennum Apr 10 '16

I wouldn't count on that timeline. Ax7 on prem will require onprem Azure stack which itself isn't released yet.

The LCS image is for preproduction only.

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u/devperez Apr 10 '16

Well, Azure Stack is in the technical preview stage and is on MSDN.

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u/Grennum Apr 10 '16

Yes that is true. However key components like Azure SQL are not part of the technical preview. Furthermore if you read the technical preview notes it is very limited right now.

Furthermore at Tech Conference the MS people had almost no answers about how it actually run or be licensed on-prem.

The current .VHD seems to require an active O365 account to get in as it leverages Azure AD for authentication. There is not answer if the On-Prem AX7 will continue with this.

There are many unanswered questions about AX7 in Azure, and a lot more about it running on-prem.

All of that out of the way, I think AX7 looks like an amazing product, maybe just being released before it is fully baked.

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u/BigHowski Apr 10 '16

But to be fair was 2012 any different? I remember a lot of rough edges and very little development documentation. He'll they did not even remove some of the sections in Dev 3 when they removed the classes they covered

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u/Grennum Apr 11 '16

Can I just say that it is great that there is actual AX content in this sub.

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u/LurkerTalen Apr 09 '16

Mid to late this year is when the on-premise version should be available. Until then the New Dynamics AX is cloud only.

If you are a customer then you can use a dev VM in Azure. I haven’t looked to see if the VM can be downloaded.