To set up Release Management for AX 2012 I will be utilizing the Build and Release functions of Visual Studio Online. Below image is an overview of the process for releasing the code into our AX platform.

When I first started to implement AX 2012 R3, I had been told that I have to manage users inside AX as well as manage users within Active Directory. I was not happy about this, so found the following method to support an AD based AX authentication process. The basic process for doing so is to query all AX Security Roles and export to CSV. Create AD Groups reflecting the Roles. Create AX User Groups reflecting the AD Groups. Finally add into the AX User Groups the AD Groups which reflect the AX Security Roles. First I needed to query AX for all the built in Roles