Dear Friends,
Greetings!
I'm at a customer place where we are on Dynamics AX 2009 SP1 and in the process of building a TEST Instance of EP from a LIVE one.
I have performed the following:
a. Backup of Live AX Database and Restored it to TEST AX
b. Backup of Live AX Application and restored it to TEST AX
c. Setup AOS to point to TEST AX
d. Setup WSS 3.0 SP2
e. Create a new web app and site collection using Dynamics AX Enterprise Portal template
f. Run Dynamics Setup to install Role centers and enterprise portal without creating a new site i.e. by unchecking configure sharepoint and create a new site while going through the setup
All the above works, and later on I used Axupdateportalutility so that all the web customizations get deployed to TEST Instance, but this never happens, Although axupdateportal runs successfully and it writes everything in the log file which is around 300 kb and finally it says success.
But, none of the customized pages or role centers gets deployed to the test instance, The standard EP portal renders fine but the problem we have is with the custom pages.
Initially we tried on a 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2 with WSS 3.0 SP2 on it, but I found there are some issues like Manage deployment doesn't work, so we have to use axupdateportal from an elevated command prompt. I have done all the troubleshooting steps mentioned in the below blogs, but still no luck..
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/emeadaxsupport/archive/2011/07/07/axupdateportal-does-not-updating-enterprise-portal.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/emeadaxsupport/archive/2009/07/23/axupdateportal-exe-does-not-update-enterprise-portal-when-not-running-from-an-elevated-command-prompt.aspx
Lastly, we tried to replicate our LIVE Environment which is running on Windows 2003 and uses WSS 3.0, by following the steps mentioned above, but still no luck, everything works without any errors and log files seems ok. But no custom pages appearing. I even tried copying the sharepoint IIS folders from LIVE to TEST (Especially the ones with control templates and layouts) but have hit a wall.
Any help on this matter much appreciated. Thanks.