Unable to connect to the AOS specified in the AX Client Configuration in SSRS

Today, I faced a really weird issue while designing a report in VS2012. After designing the report I tried building the solution and got the below error:

Error 1 Unable to connect to the AOS specified in the AX Client Configuration. The configuration could be missing, invalid, or the AOS is not running. To connect to the AOS, check the network connection between the client and the AOS, verify that a valid configuration exists and that the AOS service is running on the server. C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\DynamicsTools\Microsoft.Dynamics.Framework.Design.Reporting.Modeling.targets 103 6 ReportModel2



Error 2 The "GenerateRdlTask" task failed unexpectedly.

Microsoft.Dynamics.Framework.BusinessConnector.Session.Exceptions.NoKernelSessionException: Unable to connect to the AOS specified in the AX Client Configuration. The configuration could be missing, invalid, or the AOS is not running. To connect to the AOS, check the network connection between the client and the AOS, verify that a valid configuration exists and that the AOS service is running on the server. --->


After trying the obvious things like verifying the SSRS & BC configurations and connectivity, I had to move to the boss "Google" and got out a really interesting thing about how Business Connector works:


"The root cause is the SSRS report file size is exceeding the limit, as there are multiple layouts for the report file, and each layout has several pictures embedded. So, the size was over 10M, we tried multiple times, the report can work correctly when the size is relatively small, but once over about 10M, the business connector cannot hold the report effectively and the connect is lost.


The solution is to create another SSRS file to have other layouts."


I had created a copy of the existing design which was exceeding the size so I deleted it and all worked fine.




Source: http://dynamicsuser.net/forums/t/84427.aspx

Publish-AxReport parameters

Publish-AXReport

Deploys reports from Microsoft Dynamics AX to a Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services instance.

Syntax

Parameter Set: Default
Publish-AXReport -Id <String> [-ModifiedAfter <DateTime> ] [-ReportName <String> ] [-RestartReportServer] [-ServicesAOSName <String> ] [-ServicesAOSWSDLPort <Int32> ] [-ServicesFilePath <String> ] [-SkipDeletingExistingReport] [-SkipReportServerAdminCheck] [ <CommonParameters>]

Detailed description

The Publish-AXReport cmdlet deploys reports from Microsoft Dynamics AX to a Reporting Services instance. By default, previously deployed report metadata is deleted and replaced when reports are deployed.

Parameters

-Id<String>

Specifies the identifier of the configuration to use to connect Microsoft Dynamics AX and Reporting Services.

Aliases	none
Required?	true
Position?	named
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-ModifiedAfter<DateTime>

Limits the reports to be deployed to those modified after a specified date. Use the date format specified by your operating system. If you do not know the format, you can run the Get-AXReport cmdlet to see the format of ChangedDate.

Aliases	none
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-ReportName<String>

Specifies the names of the reports to be deployed.

Aliases	none
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-RestartReportServer

Forces the Reporting Services service to restart after a report is deployed.

Aliases	none
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-ServicesAOSName<String>

Specifies the name of a Microsoft Dynamics AX Application Object Server (AOS) instance to connect to instead of the default value.

Aliases	none
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-ServicesAOSWSDLPort<Int32>

Specifies the web service (WSDL) port of an AOS instance to connect to instead of the default value.

Aliases	none
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-ServicesFilePath<String>

Specifies a client configuration parameter file (.axc) to use instead of the configuration that is stored in the registry.

Aliases	none
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-SkipDeletingExistingReport

Specifies that the cmdlet should not delete existing report design metadata when executed.

Aliases	none
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

-SkipReportServerAdminCheck

Specifies that the cmdlet should be executed without checking whether the user has administrator rights on Reporting Services.

Aliases	none
Required?	false
Position?	named
Default Value	none
Accept Pipeline Input?	false
Accept Wildcard Characters?	false

<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug, ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, OutBuffer, OutVariable, WarningAction, and WarningVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216

Inputs

The input type is the type of the objects that you can pipe to the cmdlet.

• None
  
  You cannot pipe input to this cmdlet.

Outputs

The output type is the type of the objects that the cmdlet emits.

• None
  
  The cmdlet does not generate any output.

Examples

This example publishes reports whose names start with CustomReports and that were modified after October 10, 2011 to the report server configuration ReportServer01, and then forces the server to restart.

C:\PS>Publish-AXReport -Id ReportServer01 -ModifiedAfter 2011-10-10 -ReportName CustomReports* -RestartReportServer

Source: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj720262.aspx

Deploy report to a specific AOS instance

Publish-AXReport –ReportName * -id AXSSRS –servicesAOSname AXServer –servicesAOSWSDLPort 8101

Here AXSSRS is the SSRS configurationID name and AXServer is the system name not AOS name.