Extracting Photos from Dynamics with Go

A complication added by AX made simple using Go

We use Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 as our “System of Record (SOR)” and single source of truth for our people (HR) data. One of the things we keep there is a photo of each person. These days, there are several places that the photo ideally needs to be, in order to provide a consistent user experience across the variety of applications we use on a daily basis, ranging from Business Messaging to internally developed applications and dashboards using a static load balancer.

Ultimately we developed a command line application using Cobra that runs on a scheduled basis to keep photos across all the platforms up to date. This post is about the way Dynamics stores the photos and how we overcame that using Go.

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