How to install AX- Retail -2012 R2

 1.       Install Dynamics Ax 6.2 with ax and Retail components.

2.       When asked for store configuration. Enter server name as your store database server name , store database name as RETAILPOS, offline database name as RETAILPOSOFFLINE, store number as S0001, terminal id as 0101 and company as CEU.

 3.    When asked for commerce data exchange sync service configuration, enter server name where you want to install CDX: sync service(for dev installation it would be the same box) and Database name as AXRETAILMSG

4.       Restore the Contoso demo data to ax database (MicrosoftDynamicsAX) and model database (MicrosoftDynamicsAX_model) respectively.

5. Restore the Ax data base (.BAK file)

6.   Open Sql server, select MicrosoftDynamicsAX db -> Go to table USERINFO, add yourself as admin by updating your user ID and SID.

7. Open Ax -> Change the company to CEU

8. Retail -> Setup -> Channel Integration -> Real Time Service Profile

Set up Real time service profile by changing your server name, common name and pass phrase

9. Retail -> Setup->Channel Integration->Commerce data Exchange : Synch Service profile

Click test connection, it should return success!

10.  1.       Retail -> Setup->Channel Integration-> AOS Profile

Click test connection, it should return success!

11. Retail -> Setup->Channel Integration->Database profile 

Here database name should be of POS database to which your store is pointing

12. Retail->Setup->Retail Scheduler-> Distribution Locations -> Since I am configuring store 1 hence, channel name should be corresponding store here its Store 1 and Database Profile name should be database  profile which we have created in last step

      13. Retail->Setup->Retail Scheduler-> Distribution Location list Make sure that you select distribution location for POS which we have created in last step 

14. Retail -> Periodic->Data distribution->Distribution schedule Update all A and N jobs which are not suffixed by _OC with AOS connection profile as the AOS profile which we have created in step 8 and Add distribution location list which we created in last step for POS

15.  Run all N – jobs one by one by one.

16. Go to location :  ..\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\Retail POS Open POS.exe config file

Make sure that store id is S0001, terminal id is 0101 and dataareaid is CEU, if not change it to these values, save and close

17.  Click on Retail POS, You should get this screen,

Select 10001 and key in password as 456

I have followed and done the installation/Configuration process as mentioned in the above process.

OK folks, please send me your valuable feedback and queries.