Enterprise Portal on WSS 3.0 – Ax32.exe.config

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Q:
When setting up  Enterprise Portal on WSS 3.0 , the deployment wizard gives "ClrObject not initialized"  error. How to resolve this to deploy EP successfully on WSS 3.0

Ans:
Enterprise Portal 4.0 SP1 is supported on both WSS 2.0 and WSS 3.0. WSS 3.0 assemblies are different than WSS2.0. So the EP deployment wizard uses a config file to redirect to the right WSS assemblies in case of WSS 3.0. This file is named AX32.exe.config and should be kept at Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics\4.0\Client\Bin folder ( Where the AX32.exe is kept).

When you install AX Client on a WSS 3.0 machine for setting up EP, the setup automatically puts this folder. So you don’t need to do anything manually and the deployment wizard will just work fine.

But if you have already installed AX Client on a machine where there is no WSS 3.0 and later installed WSS 3.0 on that machine, then this file may be missing. In this case you can copy this file from the CD \Client\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics\4.0\Client\Bin to the Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics\4.0\Client\Bin folder on the machine Or create this file manually and copy the below xml to it. After this close and reopen the AxClient  and start using the EP Deployment wizard.

?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<runtime>
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.SharePoint" publicKeyToken="71e9bce111e9429c" culture="neutral" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="11.0.0.0" newVersion="12.0.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>
</assemblyBinding>
</runtime>
</configuration>

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 08, 2007
    Hi I have the mentioned file but I still get the CLR error when opening manage deployments. I have also added the two xml entities in the web.config file. Any Ideas?

  • Anonymous
    June 28, 2007
    mb you forgot "<" in the begin of this file

  • Anonymous
    September 06, 2007
    Thanks for this very usefull 'tip' it did help me. In your sample config code you are missing the beginning '<' so actually the config chould look like this <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration>  <runtime>    <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">      <dependentAssembly>        <assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.SharePoint" publicKeyToken="71e9bce111e9429c" culture="neutral" />        <bindingRedirect oldVersion="11.0.0.0" newVersion="12.0.0.0" />      </dependentAssembly>    </assemblyBinding>  </runtime> </configuration>

  • Anonymous
    January 08, 2008
    I have followed the June 2007 Instructions exactly. I did have DAX installed before I installed IIS and WSS 3. I copied the Ax32.exe.config file to the directory specified earlier.  I am still getting the error with CLR Object.  Has anyone found any other solutions? Is there a sequence that I am missing? Thanks. Scott

  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2008
    I tried to deploy Enterprise Portal after putting this file but gets following error "Enterprise Portal cannot be deployed because Windows SharePoint Services is not installed on this computer." Please help, thank you.

  • Anonymous
    February 21, 2008
    If you have Enterprise Portal cannot be deployed because Windows SharePoint Services is not installed on this computer." message still then you can uninstall AX client and AX NET connector and reinstall them that will fix the issue thasnk Gilles dartiguenave

  • Anonymous
    March 30, 2008
    Hi, How to deploy Enterprise portal in DAX 4.0 using MOSS 2007 on Windows 2003 R2 64-Bit Edition. rakesh

  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2008
    Feature 'cb7a647c-b9ab-4cc3-8249-c8f749d07012' is not installed in this farm, and can not be added to this scope.

  • Anonymous
    October 15, 2008
    Even we faced the same problem of CLR Error Uninstalling the AX Client and Business Connector,Reinstalling worked. The file "Ax32.exe.config" is created  when you run AXSetup and also  have a prior installation of WSS or MOSS, you can also copy and paste the file from the following location open the AX setup DVD navigate to the following folder MsiClientProgram FilesMicrosoft Dynamics4.0ClientBin

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Is this required in ax2009, i am not able to locate file Ax32.exe.config

  • Anonymous
    June 05, 2009
    Thanks for your great article!!!!!