Attaching Ax32Server.exe process to Visual Studio

Last week I needed to debug a batch job. In AX2012 all the batch jobs run in IL. To debug these jobs you need to use Visual Studio and attach the AOS process. When I tried to attach Ax32Serve.exe, the process was disabled in the window as show below

Attach to process window

This made me wonder what is stopping the process from being available to attach. After a little investigation I realized that we are using Debug Diagnostic tool to create the dumps in case the AOS crashes and one of the crash rules to monitor the AOS was active. After de-activating the rule the AOS process was available to be attached for debugging purpose. So apparently only one application can monitor a running process.

Assign roles from one user to another

Sometimes while testing the security roles we need to have exactly the same roles a user have. The following piece of code will assign the security roles of a user to another (while keeping the existing roles intact).

static void CopyRolesFromUserToAnotherUser(Args _args)  
 {  
   SecurityRole      securityRole;  
   SecurityUserRole  securityUserRoleSource;  
   SecurityUserRole  securityUserRoleDestination;  
   SecurityUserRole  securityUserRoleDestinationNew;  
   boolean           added;  
   UserId            sourceUserId = 'User 1';  
   UserId            destinationUserId = 'User 2';  
   
   str getFormattedRoleName(str _roleName)  
   {  
       return SysLabel::labelId2String2(_roleName, CompanyInfo::languageId());  
   }  
   
   while select securityUserRoleSource  
     where securityUserRoleSource.User == sourceUserId  
   join securityRole  
     where securityUserRoleSource.SecurityRole == securityRole.RecId  
   notexists join securityUserRoleDestination  
     where securityUserRoleDestination.SecurityRole == securityRole.RecId  
       && securityUserRoleDestination.User == destinationUserId  
   {  
       info(strFmt('Adding role %1 to the user %2.', getFormattedRoleName(securityRole.Name), destinationUserId));  
   
       securityUserRoleDestinationNew.clear();  
       securityUserRoleDestinationNew.User = destinationUserId;  
       securityUserRoleDestinationNew.SecurityRole = securityRole.RecId;  
       securityUserRoleDestinationNew.AssignmentMode = RoleAssignmentMode::Manual;  
       securityUserRoleDestinationNew.AssignmentStatus = RoleAssignmentStatus::Enabled;  
   
       SecuritySegregationOfDuties::assignUserToRole(securityUserRoleDestinationNew, null);  
   }  
 }