You plan a data migration from Dynamics AX 2009 to a Dynamics 365 Finance environment.
You need to ensure that you can perform the data migration.
What should you do first?
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A. B. C. D.C.
To perform a data migration from Dynamics AX 2009 to a Dynamics 365 Finance environment, you need to first upgrade the existing on-premises environment to a compatible version of Dynamics 365 Finance. Therefore, option C, Upgrade the existing on-premises environment to Dynamics AX 2012 R2, is the correct answer.
Here's why:
Dynamics AX 2009 is an older version of Dynamics AX that is no longer supported by Microsoft. To migrate data from an unsupported version of Dynamics AX, you must first upgrade to a supported version of Dynamics AX before migrating the data.
In this case, Dynamics AX 2012 R2 is the closest compatible version to Dynamics AX 2009, which means it will provide the best compatibility for data migration. Once you upgrade the existing on-premises environment to Dynamics AX 2012 R2, you can then migrate the data to Dynamics 365 Finance.
Upgrading to Dynamics 365 Finance online, as in option A, is not necessary or relevant to this question since the question only asks about migrating from Dynamics AX 2009 to Dynamics 365 Finance. Migrating content to Dynamics POS 2009, as in option B, is not relevant to the question since the POS system is for retail operations and not related to data migration. Migrating content to Dynamics 365 Business Central, as in option D, is also not relevant to the question since it is a different product altogether and not related to the migration of data from Dynamics AX 2009 to Dynamics 365 Finance.