Update AX 2012 R3 to CU12 - AOS & Components - Part 2

Once you updated the model store, it is time to update also the components around it. The most important ones are the AOS and the client, but if you have DIXF, Office add-ins or else, you should upgrade them too to avoid unexpected behavior in the future.

You can now connect to the computer where the AOS is installed. In my case I also have DIXF AOS and Office add-in components installed.

1 - So first of all download Report Viewer 2012 and install it, because it is a required component :
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35747
If you don't install it you won't be able to select any of the components you want to update.

2 - You can know launch the install click Next and Accept the licence terms :

3 - Then select the update package you previously saved and click next. (If you just arrived, check the part 1 here http://dynamicsapert.blogspot.com/2017/05/update-ax-2012-r3-to-cu12-database.html )

4 - Then select only binary updates to avoid the application part which will prompt you to choose a model database.

5 - You'll directly lend on the choose a component part after being proposed to save the package, but we've already done it. Then click next to launch the update :

6 - Finally you'll get this screen one the components have been updated

7 - Now we can directly outpace the configuration part by launching an AOS compilation using the command :

AXBuild.exe xppcompileall /s=01

where the parameter /s specifies the AOS you want to compile (useful when you hae multiple AOS on the same computer).

You have to launch this command from the bin folder where the AOS has been installed. In my case for example "E:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\Server\MicrosoftDynamicsAX\bin"

8 - You'll notice it'll open multiple windows, as it a multi-threaded compilation. You can specify how many threads you want by adding the parameter /worker=N where N is the number of threads you want. If you don't specify it, it'll automatically pick a number depending on the performance of your machine. In this case I was lucky, I got 12 workers! 

Thanks to that the compilation took only 32 minutes.

9 - When the compilation ends, you can find the logs in the log folder that is at the same level as the Bin folder. In my case
"E:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\Server\MicrosoftDynamicsAX\logs"

We can now go on and configure and synchronie the database, in the Part 3 :

http://dynamicsaxpert.blogspot.com/2017/05/update-ax-2012-r3-to-cu12-configure.html