{"id":881,"date":"2020-05-11T17:03:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/?p=881"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:04:11","slug":"d365fo-scm-ax-license-configuration-maintenance-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/d365fo-scm-ax-license-configuration-maintenance-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Developer VM license configuration, switch to maintenance mode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In order to turn “Catch weight for warehouse” on in license configuration in my developer virtual machine, I have switched my AX to maintenance mode. Here is the description of how to do it for different scenarios:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/dynamics365\/fin-ops-core\/dev-itpro\/sysadmin\/maintenance-mode<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My situation was turning it on for my locally hosted developer VM. In feature management, I could see “Catch weight product processing with warehouse management”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 1.: Catch weight feature on Feature management form<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To do the license configuration change, you need to <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Turn on maintenance mode<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Internet Information Services reset<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Change the configuration<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Turn maintenance mode off<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Again Internet Information Services reset <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Detailed steps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    For the 10.0.9 VHD that I downloaded from lifecycle services, the default SQL user and password are ‘axdbadmin’ & ‘AOSWebSite@123’, these are the steps in more details:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \n
    1. Turn on maintenance mode <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
      C:\\AosService\\PackagesLocalDirectory\\Bin\\Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.Deployment.Setup.exe --metadatadir C:\\AosService\\PackagesLocalDirectory --bindir C:\\AosService\\PackagesLocalDirectory\\Bin --sqlserver . --sqldatabase axdb --sqluser axdbadmin --sqlpwd AOSWebSite@123 --setupmode maintenancemode --isinmaintenancemode true<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
      2. Internet Information Services reset<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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      Figure 2.: 1st iisreset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
      3. Change the configuration<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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      Figure 3.: License configuration now editable<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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      Figure 4.: Save license configuration changes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
      4. Turn maintenance mode off<\/p>\n\n\n\n
      C:\\AosService\\PackagesLocalDirectory\\Bin\\Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.Deployment.Setup.exe --metadatadir C:\\AosService\\PackagesLocalDirectory --bindir C:\\AosService\\PackagesLocalDirectory\\Bin --sqlserver . --sqldatabase axdb --sqluser axdbadmin --sqlpwd AOSWebSite@123 --setupmode maintenancemode --isinmaintenancemode false<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
       5. Again Internet Information Services reset <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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      Figure 5.: 2nd iisreset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
      Summary\/Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
      This was not so difficult. I know everyone can do it after reading the official documentation that I linked, but maybe I could help to save a few minutes for someone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
      <\/p>\n\n\n
      #MSDyn365FO<\/a>, <\/span>License Configuration<\/a>, <\/span>Maintenance mode<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
      In order to turn “Catch weight for warehouse” on in license configuration in my developer virtual machine, I have switched my AX to maintenance mode. Here is the description of how to do it for different scenarios: https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/dynamics365\/fin-ops-core\/dev-itpro\/sysadmin\/maintenance-mode Overview My situation was turning it on for my locally hosted developer VM. In feature management, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1080","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[25,119,121],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dynamics-365fo","tag-msdyn365fo","tag-license-configuration","tag-maintenance-mode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}