How to Publish AX Reports for a specific AOS Instance

If you are running multiple instances of AX on a single environment, you have more than likely gone through the instructions as per this URL http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh389760.aspx.
One of the steps identified in this URL talks about publishing reports using the following AX Powershell command: publish-axreports.
What isn’t perhaps obvious from the examples shown on the Deploy reports to the new Reporting Services Instance [AX 2012] page is – How do I publish reports for a specific AOS instance? (The examples shown is for the default instance)

When you look at the full syntax of the Publish-AxReports powershell command:


You will notice two optional parameters that are of interest, namely:

• ServicesAOSName
• ServicesAOSWSDLPort

These two parameters are used to “tell” the Publish-AXReports powershell command, which AOS to connect to when publishing reports.
The syntax used for these two parameters are as follow:

• ServicesAOSName

This parameter contains the name of the server that runs the AOS instance that you want to connect to e.g. AXServer

• ServicesAOSWSDLPort

This parameter contains the WSDL Port number that has been setup for your AOS instance e.g. 8102

Now that we understand the syntax, the Publish-AXReports command would look like this:

Publish-AXReport –ReportName * -id AXSSRS –servicesAOSname AXServer –servicesAOSWSDLPort 8102
Note – If you are running the Publish-AxReport command using the –servicesAOSName parameter you’ll also need to specify the –servicesAOSWSDLPort. They are both required to ensure that command executes correctly.