Announcing support for Office 2016 and SQL Server 2016 with AX 2012 R3 and R2

Office 2016 and SQL Server 2016 is now supported with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 cumulative update 11 and Dynamics AX 2012 R2 cumulative update 9.

  1. SQL Server 2016 is supported with cumulative update 9 for AX 2012 R3 with hotfix KB 3184496 and cumulative update 9 for AX 2012 R2 with hotfix KB 3184754
  2. Office 2016 is supported with cumulative update 9 for AX 2012 R2 with hotfix KB 3155797.

Follow this TechNet article to include cumulative updates and hotfixes in a new installation (slipstreaming).

 Note:

Master Data Management  and Dynamics AX Intelligent Data Management Framework (IDMF) is currently NOT supported with SQL Server 2016. Customers using MDM and IDMF should not upgrade to SQL 2016 until Microsoft releases a patch to support it.

The Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 System Requirements have been updated to reflect this change.