Dynamics AX2012 Installation& AOS (Cluster) configuration on Windows 7

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　　As Microsoft's recommendations, we should install most of Dynamics AX2012 server components on Windows 2008 R2(64bit).
　　Microsoft's AX2012 virtual machine needs 8GB memory to run. (As my try, it is very slow when we use AX2012 in a 8GB memory PC).
　　As some try, we can install most of components of Dynamics AX2012 on Windows 7(64bit) for our learnings.
　　1, System environment
　　1.1 Hard environment
　　8GB Memory
　　I7 2620M CPU
　　At least 40GB free disk space.
　　1.2 Software environment
　　Windows 7 SP1 (64bit) It joined into a Domain
　　SQL2008 SP2 (64bit)
　　IIS7
　　Office 2007 SP2
　　1.3 Permission
　　Database permission, you can refer MS's document
　　Components services permission, at least local admin
　　
　　2, Pre-installation
　　First, you can select all components of AX2012 for prerequisite validation. The below is my validation result after i installed some componnents/prerequirements.
　　* Security Updates for Microsoft Office System: i can't install this item although i download it from MS. It made i can't install the component for my Office 2007 SP2: Office Add-ins of AX2012
　　*Sharepoint needs to install on Win2008 Server. So EP referred i can't install on Win 7.
　　*BI, Report server& project server referred, i haven't try them.
　　*If any pre-requirements missed on your Win7, you can download them from MS and try to install. Then revalidate.
　　

No.	Pre-Requirements	Status
1	Business Data Connectivity (BDC) service application deployed	Error
2	Microsoft Project Server	Error
3	Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Server	Error
4	Security Updates for Microsoft Office System	Error
5	SharePoint Search	Error
6	SharePoint Server Search 14 service startup type	Error
7	SharePoint Server Search 14 service started	Error
8	Microsoft SharePoint	Error
9	Web site (Microsoft SharePoint Central Administration)	Error
10	Server operating system	Warning
11	ADOMD.NET	Success
12	Computer restart pending	Success
13	Domain user account	Success
14	Windows Firewall service	Success
15	Web Server role (Help Server)	Success
16	Local administrator	Success
17	Microsoft Report Viewer 2010	Success
18	Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1	Success
19	Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0	Success
20	Hotfix for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 (KB2390372)	Success
21	Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel	Success
22	Open XML SDK for Microsoft Office	Success
23	Client operating system	Success
24	Windows PowerShell 2.0	Success
25	Microsoft SQL Server Native Client	Success
26	Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services	Success
27	Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services started.	Success
28	Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services	Success
29	Required updates for Microsoft SQL Server	Success
30	Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services started	Success
31	Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services web service	Success
32	Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable (x86)	Success
33	Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable (x64)	Success
34	Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable (x86)	Success
35	Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable (x64)	Success
36	Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for the Microsoft Office system	Success
37	Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Activation	Success
38	Microsoft Windows Installer	Success
39	Windows Search Service	Success
40	Windows Search Service startup type	Success

　　
　　At last, I installed below components:
　　Databases
　　AOS
　　Clients
　　Remote Desktop Services integration
　　Developer tools (Debuger, VS tools& trace parse)
　　Web services on IIS
　　.Net business connector
　　Management utilities
　　BI(Reports&Analysis)
　　Not installation:
　　Web server componnents (EP, Enterprice search&Help server)
　　Office Add-ins
　　Project server referred
　　
　　3. After below components installation completed, we can learn AX2012 now although some components can't be installed.
　　3.1 Install AOS instance
　　You need to install AOS one by one using Setup.exe of AX2012.
　　3.2 How to manage AX2012
　　AOS services are in services.msc. Each AOS instance has one services.
　　In Administative tools, It has three AX2012 toos (Run as administrator):
　　AX2012 configuration: A tool to configure client users access AOS.
　　AX2012 management shell
　　AX2012 server configuration: Setup AOS
　　3.3 Configuration for clients
　　In connection tab, you need to entry Server name, AOS name, Ports (If multi AOS for cluster, you only need list all AOS information here.)
　　3.4 Configuration AOS
　　Define TCP/IP|Services WSDL port for AOS
　　List Database Server name, Database name and baseline database name
　　3.5 AOS cluster configuration
　　Sys admin module->Setup->System->Cluster configuration
　　Create a Cluster name: AOSC and you have installed AOS1, AOS2 and AOS3 on your PC.
　　Map AOS instances to cluster, you can change cluster name to AOSC.
　　If you want to a load balancer, you can check it, the AOS will not load users but only for loading balance and its max concurrent sessions will be Zero. Other AOS will load all users.
　　A AOS is loading balancer, it shoudln't be a batch server.
　　AOS is a member of AOS cluster can be a batch server.
　　After cluster configuration completed, All AOS need to restart.
　　3.6 User configuration for AOS cluster
　　　　If no load balancer, configuration needs to list all member AOS of the cluster.
　　　　If it has a load balancer, configuration only needs to list the load balancer AOS settings.
　　　　For AOS cluster, network should allow some ports access by TCP/IP/UDP.