Inside Dynamics AX

Using the preprocessing upgrade state transfer tool: The preprocessing upgrade state transfer tool helps you minimize downtime during upgrade. The tool also helps you avoid putting an additional load on your production Microsoft Dynamics AX system while you prepare to upgrade it. This topic describes how to create a test system that is a replica of your production system, perform data preprocessing on the test system, and then transfer the completed preprocessing state back to the production system. How the State Transfer Tool Works: The state transfer tool operates on a Microsoft Dynamics AX source system where some of the tasks of the Preprocessing upgrade checklist have been completed. The tool analyzes the code in the upgrade preprocessing project to identify the upgrade staging and framework tables that are required to capture the state of the Preprocessing upgrade checklist. The tool then uses the Microsoft SQL Server Bulk Copy Program (BCP) utility to copy these tables to ...