This release includes the ability to use Management Reporter over HTTPS, and it includes several quality fixes.
NOTE: CU16 will be the last formal CU release for Management Reporter 2012 for Dynamics AX 2012.
Summary of the new Management Reporter CU16 features:
• HTTPS Support for Server and client components
• Add Hebrew (he-il) localization
• Additional fixes for product defects (all quality fixes)
Details of additional product quality fixes for MR 2012 (related to Dynamics AX):
3751976: Wildcards and ranges doesn’t return all valid dimension combinations
3753112: Dimension filter uses an OR condition instead of an AND in different scenarios when two dimensions are specified
3755023: Dimension filter uses an OR condition instead of an AND if using a dimension value that does not exist
3767519: Report generation fails when using a dimension value setting in the reporting tree based on MainAccount
3768350: Company Integration very slow when many records in SECURITYUSERROLECONDITION table
3768609: MR CU15 Known Issue – @DateLong AutoText header displays day of week in web viewer
3771542: Integration fails if collation is different between tempdb and Microsoft Dynamics AX database
3778344: Vendor name transaction attribute isn’t correct when using a virtual company with a shared table collection that includes VendTable
3794033: Report generation fails when there is a duplicated name for a dimension value
Ensure you have the following prerequisites:
• Management Reporter 2012 CU16 requires SQL Server 2012 or higher.
• PowerShell 3.0 is required.
• The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1 is required, but is no longer automatically downloaded and prompted for installation.
For a complete list of prerequisites, review the system requirements. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5916
HTTPS Feature Overview:
The use of HTTPS and SSL provides an additional level of security to protect your financial data on your local network, your intranet, or from your cloud-based deployment. This feature enables secure communication with an https:// address when viewing reports in the web viewer, desktop viewer, and when designing reports.
This is an optional feature that will require removing and re-configuring the services after an upgrade of HTTPS or during a new installation.
There are a few requirements to the HTTPS feature support, :
• The HTTPS feature will only work on Server 2008 R2 or later. Configuration will fail on Server 2008.
• The Migration Wizard does not support HTTPS. You can use the Migration Wizard with CU16, and then remove the services and enable HTTPS with your existing database after migration has completed.
• All clients need a certificate verifying that the server hosting the Management Reporter services is trusted. The certificate will need to be distributed and installed on all clients. The certificate can be a purchased certificate from a certificate authority, a domain certificate from Windows Certificate Services, or a self-signed certificate from the server hosting Management Reporter (a self-signed certificate is not recommended for production).
For the Report Designer client, it will continue to connect to the HTTP port for initial connection, but will automatically use HTTPS after connected. For example, if your default HTTP port is 4712, and HTTPS port is 4713, you will enter the following address into the Report Designer client: http://MRServer:4712
Management Reporter CU16 Release: 2.12.16000.17
NOTE: There are no changes to the data mart schema in this release, so no upgrade to the data mart database will be required.
You can view which ERP versions are supported by this release by reviewing compatibility list here.
You can find the EN-US download for Management Reporter CU16 here: https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/northamerica/MR/downloads/service-packs/MROverview
