[AX 2012 R3 Retail]: POS CU10 Upgrade using N-1 Approach

After deploying CU10 Update, your HQ is on CU10 Retail Distribution Framework will run on CU10 Schema, while you POS is still on RTM. In order for your HQ to communicate with the RTM POS Clients its necessary to have Retail Distribution Framework (Jobs and Sub Jobs) to run on RTM Channel Schema.

One need not create the RTM Channel Schema jobs and sub jobs manually, you can execute RetailCDXSeedData_R3 class to create the jobs and sub jobs for you. You need to then configure your existing Channel Database and Channel Data Groups to use the RTM framework for the Channel Schema.

-Hitesh

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