Delete AUC for all users

Hey Guys!

Today I have got a small but interesting thing in Ax. We had a situation wherein space of C drive was reaching the alarming level of the Ax-client server (from where all users access Ax). I ran the tool WizTree which displays the analysis of a drive as per the space occupancy. It showed that the maximum amount of space was taken by the AppData folder and I knew what needs to be done next.

The problem was auc files had accumulated for all the users which were summed up to almost 30Gb. So, I decided to delete them but the challenge was how to delete it for all the users at once. So I took help from my master (yes, it's Google) and created a batch which will traverse through all the users AppData folder and delete the auc/kti files.

1. Open Notepad.
2. Paste the below commands there:

for /D %D in ("C:\USERS\*") do del "%~fD\AppData\Local\*.auc"
for /D %D in ("C:\USERS\*") do del "%~fD\AppData\Local\*.kti"
pause

3. Save the notepad as .bat file.

4. Run the batch file and it will delete all the auc/kti files for all the users.

Credits: http://blog.bhsolutions.com/index.php/2014/05/dynamics-ax-2012-spring-cleaning-app-data/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34019989/batch-file-copy-all-users-profile-app-data

Visual Studio cache clear

Hey guys,

Today, while playing around with Visual Studio templates, I did which had put me in a fix. I had changed some config files and after which I started getting weird errors on VS launch. (Sorry don't remember the exact errors now)

Then I revert the config files from the backup which I had taken before doing the changes still the errors didn't go away. Then it struck me that it's got something to do with the VS cache and on googling I found the below method to clear the cache:

1. Close Visual Studio (ensure devenv.exe is not present in the Task Manager)
2. Delete the %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ComponentModelCache directory
3. Restart Visual Studio.

You should change the VisualStudio/14.0 to the version of visual studio you are using. I am using VS2015.

Credits: https://github.com/Codealike/Codealike-KnowledgeBase/blob/master/clear-visual-studio-component-cache.md