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Deploying the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client makes it easy for end users to install, upgrade, and uninstall the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client. They can do this with a few clicks, without help from super users or IT administrators.
This video shows how a partner or IT administrator can sign a ClickOnce deployment using a Certificate, and how this improves security and confidence for end users when they install the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client.
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This is the third video in a series of how-to videos that show how a partner or IT administrator can deploy the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client with ClickOnce. Make sure to watch the first video before you watch this video.
For a detailed step-by-step guide about how to deploy the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client with ClickOnce, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=251676.
-Christian Heide Damm
Deploying the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client with ClickOnce makes it easy for end users to install, upgrade, and uninstall the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client. They can do this with a few clicks, without the help from super users or IT administrators.
This video shows how a partner or IT administrator can host a ClickOnce deployment on a web server instead of on a file share. This is best suited for public deployments over the internet, as opposed to deployments internally in an organization.
This is the fourth video in a series of how-to videos that show how a partner or IT administrator can deploy the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client with ClickOnce. Make sure to watch the first video before you watch this video.
For a detailed step-by-step guide about how to deploy the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client with ClickOnce, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=251676.
-Christian Heide Dam
This video shows how a partner or IT administrator can host a ClickOnce deployment in Azure blob storage. This combines the simplicity of a file share deployment with the accessibility of a public web server deployment.
This is the fifth video in a series of how-to videos that show how a partner or IT administrator can deploy the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client with ClickOnce. Make sure to watch the first video before you watch this video.
Following the launch of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, Zetadocs Express has been updated for use with the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Windows client. The updated version can be downloaded from CustomerSource and PartnerSource.
Zetadocs Express is the document management add-on available at no additional cost to users on a Business Ready Enhancement Plan, it includes the following:
As with previous releases, partners can download Zetadocs Express and include document management in their demonstrations of Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Customers on a Business Readiness Enhancement Plan should talk to their partners to get this installed in order to take advantage of document management capabilities integrated into Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Work in Process, WIP, and the related recognition of costs and revenues has a huge impact on the bottom-line for a project-based company. Project managers, accountants, and controllers are monitoring this recognition closely and for them it is crucial to have the process be as simple yet accurate as possible. Since the process has such an impact on financial reporting, it is also under the scrutiny of auditors. International and country-specific accounting standards control the WIP and Recognition process thoroughly. For these reasons, it's important that the process as well as its result be easy to understand.
So what benefits does Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 bring to accountants and controllers? Flexibility in defining WIP methods makes it easy to have Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 fit particular company or industry requirements and country specific accounting standards. Accountants are in complete control of which of the WIP methods is to be used in the company to avoid rework later in the process and risking incompliance. Accountants can enforce a policy of using a particular WIP method, posting detail, and posting schemas for all of a company's projects, thus providing consistent and accurate financial data for management. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 provides two additional levels of detail while posting WIP to improve an accountant's efficiency during the reconciliation process. First, it provides a choice on level of detail during posting of WIP to the general ledger. Second, it provides the ability to allocate different categories of costs (inventory, resources) to different general ledger accounts.
All of the policies that an accounting department establishes come into effect at a point where data about actual execution of the project, collected by the project manager and project team, meets with the balance sheet. In Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, this place is called the WIP cockpit. The WIP cockpit provides a complete overview of costs, revenues, and profits generated by the project in particular period. In a single place, the accountant can overview the amounts that will be posted to company ledgers, and see how these amounts were calculated, with details of the underlying transactions that caused them just another click away. In addition, the WIP cockpit displays WIP warnings, which enable the accountant to see if the underlying data collected by the project team is in line with what is defined by the WIP method and if all prerequisites for recognizing costs and revenues are met before posting WIP to a company's balance sheet. Posting WIP to the balance sheet (and reversing it in case of last minute changes to project costs) is as easy in Microsoft Dynamics 2013.
What about benefits for project managers? A project manager, who is responsible for the execution and monitoring of a project, can focus on his job and not become bogged down with the project's accounting details. How? Well, Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 enforces policies set by the accounting department by taking care of all the accounting-related requirements during creation, planning, execution and monitoring for the project. The project manager makes sure that all the costs related to the project have been accounted for and that all that should be invoiced to the customer is invoiced. When this is done, the WIP cockpit will provide him with an overview of what will be handed over to the accounting department to be recognized in the company's books. Before wrapping it up for a milestone or period end, the project manager can initiate calculation of WIP and verify that no warnings or violations of policies set by the accounting department exist, so project information can be properly reflected in the company's books. When warnings appear, usually something is missing or is not accounted for. In Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, finding out what that is this just a click away and after warnings are sorted out, the project manager can use Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 to recalculate WIP, and take these last minute changes into account.
-Ivan Koletic
The other day a partner asked me about how to start the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 C/AL Debugger for another NAV Server instance than the one used by C/SIDE.
The explanation is below, but first, let's see how C/SIDE finds the NAV Server instance used for running and debugging.
The Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server Instance used by C/SIDE for Run and Debug
When you Run an application object from the C/SIDE Object designer, C/SIDE is starting a Dynamics NAV Windows client with the application url constructed from:
Read more here: Starting the Windows Client at the Command Prompt, the URL parameter.
This could be an example:
Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.exe "DynamicsNAV://localhost:7046/dynamicsnav70/CRONUS International Ltd./RunPage?Page=42"
The rest of the client configurations are taken from the default ClientUserSettings.config, which is typically found at %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\70.
The same principle is used when you start the debugger from within C/SIDE Tools/Debugger/Debug Session.
All this works quite well in more confined setups where you can address different databases and NAV Servers if you are using the same authentication type for them all, but if you want to address different NAV Servers having for example different authentication types, you have to find other solutions – feel free to be inspired by how to.
Define Alternative Ways of Starting the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 C/AL Debugger
Now let's say you have made a dedicated NAV Test environment with:
… and you want to debug some issue that appears in the Test environment from your development environment machine.
The trick is to create a Dynamics NAV Windows client shortcuts on your development machine that specifies:
Ending up in a combined command line description:
Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.exe -settings:file "DynamicsNAV://< Server>[:<port]>/<ServerInstance>/<Company>/debug"
Or the short-form (all defaults to the .config settings):
Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.exe -settings:file "DynamicsNAV://///debug"
Adding up to shortcut examples like this:
Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.exe -settings:"%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\TestEnv.config" "DynamicsNAV://///debug"
Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.exe -settings:"%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\ProdEnv.config" "DynamicsNAV://///debug"
Or with full paths like this:
"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\70\RoleTailored Client\Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.exe" -settings:"%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\TestEnv.config" "DynamicsNAV://///debug"
The Windows client specifically understands the "special" /debug url, which is currently a "shorthand" for starting the client with:
The debugger can be started this way because it is working similar to any Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution.
-Hans Kierulff
In Microsoft Dynamics NAV, there are several areas that enable the user to perform analysis in Microsoft Excel. Areas such as importing and exporting budgets, analysis by dimensions, and a number of selected reports all use Excel Buffer to export data to Microsoft Excel. In Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, the exporting technology has changed to gain better performance in the export as well as to enable more advanced customization capabilities. In Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, Excel Buffer has changed from being a chatty client automation solution to one that uses the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office and renders the Excel workbook on the server side.
In the blog post Excel Buffer Using Open XML Instead of Excel Automation - (Part 1 of 2), I demonstrated simple write and read scenarios. This blog post will go into details on how you can use the Open XML API in C/AL to extend the Excel Buffer functionality. I will show what can be done with some additional cell formatting. The following areas will be covered:
Exposing the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Open XML worksheet Writer Object in Table 370
You need to expose the workbook writer object from table 370 by adding the following method. In this way, you open for applying functionality from the extensive and verbose Open XML API. The easiest way is to export the Excel Buffer table (table 370), add the following procedure, and then reimport and compile the object.
PROCEDURE GetWorkbookWriter@21(VAR WrkBookWriter@1000 : DotNet "'Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.OpenXml, Version=188.8.131.52, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'.Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.OpenXml.Spreadsheet.WorkbookWriter");BEGIN WrkBookWriter := XlWrkBkWriter;END; Using the Decorator Parameter to Provide Additional Formatting
Due to a limitation in C/AL, you cannot use generics as part of the C/AL DotNet object type. Therefore, you need to create a helper class that can handle the places where the Open XML SDK only uses generics. This helps avoid using unnecessary, complex looping of collections in C/AL code. Often tasks like this are much easier to implement in a DotNet helper class. An example of this is described below where I have a simple method that can append an Open XML element to a collection. To create the OpenXmlHelper class, do the following steps:1. Open Visual Studio.2. Create new C# class library project called OpenXmlHelper.3. Ensure that signing is enabled on the project, as the assembly needs to have a strong name key.4. Reference the DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll from the Open XML SDK. The default installation is typically in the following location: C:\Program Files (x86)\Open XML SDK\V2.0\lib\DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll.5. Rename Class1 to OpenXmlHelper.6. Add a using statement DocumentFormat.OpenXml to the file.7. Create the method: AppendChild by copying the following code.
public static bool AppendChild(OpenXmlElement parent, OpenXmlElement child){ if (parent.HasChildren && parent.Contains(child)) { return false; } parent.AppendChild(child); return true;}
8. Compile and place the OpenXmlHelper in an OpenXML Add-ins folder for the client and server. The default installation will point to the following locations: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\70\RoleTailored Client\Add-ins\OpenXML and C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\70\Service\Add-ins\OpenXML.9. Import the ExcelBuffer Extensibility codeunit (attached) and compile. This codeunit opens up to add decorations as well as download the file to the client.
The first part of the codeunit is the same as in Excel buffer that we used in the blog post Excel Buffer Using Open XML Instead of Excel Automation - (Part 1 of 2), but I have added the workbookwriter. In addition, instead of opening the file in Excel I use the FileMangement codeunit functionality to download the file from the server to the client, to show a different way of working with the generated file. // Create new method on ExcelBuffer table to expose the WorkbookWriter.ExcelBuffer.GetWorkbookWriter(WrkbookWriter); // Call method that adds new font with a set of new characters.AddingFont(FontDecorator); // Add a new cell Formula using the new fontdecorator. WrkbookWriter.FirstWorksheet.SetCellFormula(4,'A','SUM(A2:A3)','#,#0.0;#,#0.0',FontDecorator); ExcelBuffer.CloseBook;
// Download the Excel file from the server to client.ExcelBuffer.UTgetGlobalValue('ExcelFile',FileServerName);FileClientName := 'C:\Temp\ClientFile.xlsx';FileMgt.DownloadToFile(FileServerName,FileClientName);MESSAGE(FileClientName); In the codeunit, there is also an example of how the AddingFont method can be used:
// Create new Font, cloned from existing Font.Font := WrkbookWriter.FirstWorksheet.DefaultCellDecorator.Font.CloneNode(TRUE); // Create a new Font Color.FontColor := FontColor.Color;FontColor.Rgb := FontHexValue.HexBinaryValue('0000EEEE');Font.Color := FontColor; // Create a new Font Size.FontSize := FontSize.FontSize;FontSize.Val := FontSizeDoubleValue.DoubleValue(30);Font.FontSize := FontSize; // Get the collection of Fonts that already exists.Fonts := WrkbookWriter.Workbook.WorkbookPart.WorkbookStylesPart.Stylesheet.Fonts; // Add the new font to the collection of fonts and increase the number of fonts by one.IF OpenXmlHelper.AppendChild(Fonts,Font) THENFonts.Count.Value := Fonts.Count.Value + 1; // Add the Font to a decorator.Decorator := WrkbookWriter.FirstWorksheet.DefaultCellDecorator;Decorator.Font := Font; Running the codeunit will save the file on the client in the following file: C:\temp\clientfile.xlsx. In the spreadsheet, the number is now formatted to a larger font and color.
From here, it's only up to your own imagination and needs for how you want to extend with more methods, and so forth.
The capability of the Open XML SDK API is your only limitation.
-Lars-Bo Christensen
RapidStart Services for Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an integrated tool and a native part of Microsoft Dynamics NAV that helps speed up the implementation process and facilitates better control of the whole process. It includes Configuration Packages, Project Overview, Questionnaires, and Master Data Import.
TRIMIT gains complete control of the implementation process
RapidStart Services for Microsoft Dynamics NAV helps TRIMIT Fashion provide a complete setup of a new company. TRIMIT use it to configure the application. It gives them an overview of which areas are being processed and which are already completed, who is responsible for setting up an application area and what else will be affected by the specifics of the setup.
Better overview promotes better communication
Kitty Bisseling, Partner Supporter at TRIMIT, finds that "using the Project Overview, the customer is able to get a better overview of the setup work that still needs to be done."
According to Alexander Pontoppidan Thyssen, Business Consultant at CORNATOR, RapidStart Services streamlines communication: "RapidStart Services has helped improve communication both internally as well as externally because people tend to be more aligned with the "why" and the "how" when they address the issues and challenges that they come across when implementing," Thyssen says.
Standardization saves time
RapidStart Services comes with a standardized Configuration Package with out-of-the-box general setup data, such as currency codes, posting groups, VAT templates, chart of accounts, payment terms, and countries.
For their TRIMIT Fashion solution, TRIMIT has also extended it with Configuration Packages specifically for Fashion Wholesale companies. This extends the pre-set data with fashion-specific data templates of Matrices for Color and Sizes. The standardized Configuration Packages shortens the implementation time for TRIMIT's customers by providing them with predefined fashion-specific colors, sizes, washing label descriptions and more.
"Especially for smaller companies, the whole setup of a new Company can be adopted, so the customers can start up very quickly; this really saves time for the customer and for the consultant," says Bisseling.
The standardized Configuration Packages have improved efficiency for CORNATOR's customers: "Knowledge and thereby efficiency is in general improved across departments and between consultants, because we use the same data foundation across implementations", says Thyssen.
Shorter learning curve
RapidStart Services also includes Questionnaires, which TRIMIT has used to ask specific questions about the fashion company being setup. By offering out-of-the-box questionnaires, RapidStart Services makes it possible for everyone to start up their own company with only minimal training required.
"It is also a great tool for guiding the customers to what they need to do; even when the consultant is not present," Bisseling says.
Greater flexibility for the future
RapidStart Services for Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a native part of the product, which means that it is available both on-premise and in the cloud, giving customers more flexibility. Bisseling believes that in the future, when more companies start to adopt the SaaS concept as a way of working with more standard and less customized functionality, RapidStart Services will help guide their customers through the implementation process.
TRIMIT is an ISV (Independent Software Vendor) and a Gold Certified Microsoft Dynamics NAV Partner specialized in fashion, furniture, product configuration, and trade and distribution. TRIMIT, an industry solution designed and built within Microsoft Dynamics NAV, enhances the ERP solution with a wealth of industry-specific functionality to manage design, cuts, colors, sizes, and more. The ERP system also integrates with Microsoft Excel for reporting and business planning and with Microsoft Word for importing customer information automatically into forms, letters, and marketing communications. The TRIMIT Solution helps fashion and furniture Companies handle a greater number of product variants by simplifying product configuration. Together, Microsoft Dynamics NAV and the industry solution, TRIMIT help companies run their business by providing them with configured Master Data Templates, including Matrices for Color and Sizes.
In 2008, the company CORNATOR divided into two independent companies, CORNATOR and TRIMIT. CORNATOR continued to support the Danish market as a VAR (Value Added Reseller), and TRIMIT continued to develop "state of the art" functionality for TRIMIT solutions and to build an international partnership strategy that focuses on the fashion and furniture industries. All 70 employees of CORNATOR work with Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
The Microsoft Dynamics NAV support team have posted videos on YouTube that illustrate various aspects of deployment and configuration of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, including tips for how to extend the core product. You can share the videos with other partners, and with your customers - they are the same videos that our internal supporters have been able to consume for a while, and we hope you will enjoy them as much as we do.
The following table lists the videos that are currently available - note that more videos may be made available later, so make sure you check to see later!
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 – Technical – NAV Cluster
This video shows how Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 behaves with NLB Clustering in a three-tier setup.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 – Technical – Unicode
This Video shows what's new in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 for Unicode and how it works for Unicode data.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 – Technical – SharePoint
This video explains how-to set up, configure and use the new Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 SharePoint client. It also highlights some of the client's features as well as tips to debug the client using commonly used SharePoint debug methods.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 – Technical – SQL Filtering
This video demonstrates the different options for filtering data that are available in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 query object.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 – Technical – SQL Query Object
This video demonstrates creating and executing a typical Query object in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 – Technical – SQL Queries with C/AL Code
This video demonstrates how to use a Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 query object in your C/AL code, including best practices tips.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 – Technical – SQL Joining Tables
This video demonstrates how to join multiple data items (tables) and filter results with a Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 query object.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 – Technical – Charts
This video shows how to create and modify a generic chart, and how to make a simple extended chart.
Best regards,
The Microsoft Dynamics NAV support team
"Our setup time is down from more than a week to only a few hours using RapidStart Services for Microsoft Dynamics NAV"
RapidStart Services for Microsoft Dynamics NAV has helped Microsoft partner, Abakion, deploy their Purchase Order Management solution much faster. A standard setup used to take them over a week. With RapidStart Services, implementation time is only a few hours.
RapidStart Services for Microsoft Dynamics NAV was introduced in response to customer demand for faster implementation. "Customers want to hear that it's easy to convert data, so their transition to their new ERP system will be smooth," says Claus Lundstrøm, Senior Product Manager at Abakion.
What's the big idea?
The idea behind RapidStart Services was to enable companies to complete a setup with minimal training and to use ready-to-use data templates. This shortens the implementation time and allows customers to focus on their business, rather than getting caught up in a time-consuming system switch.
RapidStart Services, an integrated part of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, comes with standardized Configuration Packages and Questionnaires that make the Whole process faster. It also provides customers with a project overview and the ability to automate importing data from their old system using Master Data Import.
Data import is no longer a hassle
Abakion started using RapidStart Services for Microsoft Dynamics NAV to shorten their setup process and respond to the competitive situation.
"We learned how to use it quickly, and it has decreased our implementation time dramatically. Our Purchase Order Management add-on is now installed and configured at a customer site in only a few hours," says Lundstrøm.
Abakion now uses Master Data Import to configure and set up their solution. Not only is the data imported, but all the details are taken care of as well. The company-specific imported data includes both user access rights and roles to determine what users have access to according to the role assigned to them.
"If the data could not be imported with RapidStart, it would take at least a week to setup manually," Lundstrøm says.
Configuration templates save a lot of time
Companies can use out-of-the-box Configuration Packages in RapidStart Services in order to save time. This makes it fast and easy to configure generic data, such as currency codes, posting groups, VAT templates, chart of accounts, payment terms, and countries.
Existing Configuration Packages can always be extended later on, if needed. Companies can also choose to import their own customized Configuration Packages using Master Data Import.
Abakion used their own customized text templates and specific text for multiple languages, importing 30 different text templates in multiple languages.
About Abakion's Purchase Order Management solution
Abakion's Purchase Order Management is an add-on solution built on Microsoft Dynamics NAV, which allows for control over the changes in purchase orders within the environment of a portal hosted on Microsoft Azure.
Once the quotes/orders are created by the purchaser, they are then available in the portal, where vendors can update the information about a quote/order.
"Then, via the portal, the vendor can inform the purchaser if he can deliver on time. If he can only partially deliver, he can make changes to the order or quote," says Lundstrøm,
The purchaser is automatically informed about all changes in Microsoft Dynamics NAV and can take necessary actions by looking at the overview of outstanding quotes and orders.
Assembly Management was released as part of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, and it includes a set of features designed for companies that supply products to their customers bycombining components in simple processes, such as assembly, light manufacturing, and kitting.
Before the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 release, customers and partners in selected regions and countries, such as North America, France, and Australia, may have been familiar with a similar local functionality called Kitting. The uptake of Kitting in those geographies has been both the driver and inspiration behind the global Assembly Management feature. Its value proposition and the functional breadth have been closely investigated and appreciated by the NAV core development team, resulting in Kitting's key business and user requirements laying the conceptual foundation for the new Assembly Management feature.
To ensure the quality of the new global Assembly Management feature as well as its solid integration into the existing supply chain suite, the core development team produced aphysical and conceptual design that differed significantly from the one in Kitting. The differences are many. While Kitting used the BOM journal to manage the assembly process, Assembly Management operates with the concept of assembly order, which offers more functional flexibility, better user interface and extensibility. Last, but not least, assembly order offers more superior integration points to the rest of inventory, such as availability calculations and order promising, item tracking, supply planning, warehousing, and costing. This is understandable because the BOM journal, like any other journal in the application, is different from an order in its flexibility and scope, with the BOM Journal's main goal being to support users in quick data entry for a subset of specialized transactions, while bypassing any auxiliary inventory processes.
With the introduction of the assembly order, the BOM journal was deemed unnecessary. This also meant that a disassembly process, which the BOM journal partially supported, wouldhave to be redesigned in Assembly Management along the same principles as the common assembly process. More specifically, a disassembly order to manage a reverse conversion process, i.e. from one item to many, would need to be added and integrated to the same supply chain features that the assembly order integrates to (see above). The disassembly order was not included in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013.Customers, who assemble their items themselves (as opposed to purchasing them from outside or getting them back through returns), and who need to reverse the previously made assembly, can use the new Undo Assembly function.
The option of keeping the BOM journal in the application for the sake of disassembly was rejected for several reasons:
a) Though useful in some scenarios, the actual BOM journal support for a disassembly process was limited to automatic creation of negative and positive adjustments for finished items and components respectively.
b) Its handling of cost flows required serious improvement.
c) As pointed out earlier, a journal line offers no integration to other parts of the inventory processes.
The core development team will be evaluating the possibility of including a properly designed disassembly feature in the future NAV releases. Kitting customers that used the BOM journal for their disassembly tasks should approach their partners for a discussion of reintroducing a journal for disassembly scenarios. The core development team will make no design recommendations in this regard.
For more information, see Assemble Items in the MSDN Library.
The NAV Supply Chain team
In the past few months we talked to many hosting companies across several countries which deal with Microsoft Dynamics NAV hosting. They all are confirming that the new platform capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 are making the product much easier to deploy andmaintain.
The tools that are essential for the companies dealing with volume deployment of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 include:
We also gained insight into the typical hosted Microsoft Dynamics NAV incidents. One of the biggest cost factors for companies dealing with a variety of products, not only from Microsoft, but also from multiple third-party software providers, was support and troubleshooting – finding the root cause faster and being able to see which product is causing problems to relay the support incident to the right support professional.
Many of these companies chose to use the Microsoft System Center platform to manage their virtual, physical, and cloud IT environments. This is a single end-to-end service management solution to handle infrastructure, service delivery, automation, and applications that is easy to customize and extend.
The way to extend this management platform to recognize and maintain all kinds of software and hardware is to use Management Packs (MPs) developed for them. Management Packs are the building blocks which extend Operations Manager capabilities to operating systems, applications, and other technology components. An MP contains best practice knowledge to discover, monitor, troubleshoot, report on, and resolve problems for a specific technology component.
Microsoft provides MPs for more than 60 Microsoft products and Windows components. There are more than 500 Microsoft Partner Management Packs covering most technologies used by organizations today.
We are pleased to announce that a Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Management Pack for System Center is now available for download for all IT professionals working with System Center 2007 R2 Operations Manager or System Center 2012 Operations Manager components of the Microsoft System Center.
This extension package provides Microsoft System Center Operations Manager users with the ability to detect and monitor computer systems running Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, including the following components:
Companies providing hosting services to Microsoft Dynamics NAV Partners now have a toolset for extending their offering with Microsoft Dynamics NAV-specific monitoring and basic troubleshooting.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Management Pack for System Center enables Operations and IT Management teams to easily identify and resolve issues affecting the health of numerous distributed Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 installations. It lowers client support costs by surfacing critical statistics and alerts in context of running Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 components. It also reduces IT management complexity by automating routine administration and providing basic actions for working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 components.
On a final note, we would like to thank all the companies who shared their experience and provided their feedback to our R&D team. This feedback is extremely valuable and greatly appreciated.
- The Microsoft Dynamics NAV Product Marketing team
Windows PowerShell is becoming ever more used in the professional IT organization, and in Microsoft Dynamics NAV we are continuously extending and improving the set of administration management PowerShell cmdlets.
With hotfix 2791548, we introduce these additions and updates, all fully backward compatible with cmdlets shipped with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013:
To use the new and changed cmdlets, you must obtain the relevant hotfix through your Microsoft Dynamics NAV support contact. For more information, see the KnowledgeBase article for the hotfix (requires access to PartnerSource/CustomerSource).
The rest of this blog post describes the cmdlets at a summary level. The full documentation is available on the MSDN Library. Additional documentation is available at Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows PowerShell Cmdlets.
Creates a new Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server instance.
Parameter Set: __AllParameterSets
New-NAVServerInstance [-ServerInstance] <String> -ManagementServicesPort <ServicePort> [-ClientServicesCertificateThumbprint <String> ] [-ClientServicesCredentialType <String> ] [-ClientServicesPort <ServicePort> ] [-DatabaseInstance <String> ] [-DatabaseName <String> ] [-DatabaseServer <String> ] [-ODataServicesPort <ServicePort> ] [-ServiceAccount {<LocalService> | <NetworkService> | <LocalSystem> | <User>} ] [-ServiceAccountCredential <PSCredential> ] [-SOAPServicesPort <ServicePort> ] [ <CommonParameters>]
Use the New-NAVServerInstance cmdlet to create a new Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server instance. You must specify a name for the instance, in addition to values for the four port parameters. All other configuration values for the new instance are based on default values. Make sure that you verify the DatabaseServer and DatabaseName values after the instance is created, to ensure that the instance can accept client requests.All permissions that are required for the instance to start are configured automatically.
For more information, see New-NAVServerInstance on the MSDN Library.
This example creates a new Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server instance. It configures the necessary firewall exceptions and performs the necessary Access Control List registrations.
// Copyright © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
// This code released under the terms of the
// Microsoft Public License (MS-PL, http://opensource.org/licenses/ms-pl.html.)
C:\PS>New-NAVServerInstance NewInstance -ManagementServicesPort 8099 -ClientServicesPort 8100 -SOAPServicesPort 8101 -ODataServicesPort 8102 –verbose
VERBOSE: NavCommand.BeginProcessingVERBOSE: NavCommand.ProcessRecordVERBOSE: Creating Instance directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\70\Service\Instances\NewInstanceVERBOSE: Adding Windows Firewall (and UrlAcl) rules for Server Instance MicrosoftDynamicsNavServer$NewNAVServerVERBOSE: Adding Windows Firewall (and UrlAcl) rules for Server Instance MicrosoftDynamicsNavServer$NewNAVServerVERBOSE: Adding Windows Firewall (and UrlAcl) rules for Server Instance MicrosoftDynamicsNavServer$NewNAVServerVERBOSE: Adding Windows Firewall (and UrlAcl) rules for Server Instance MicrosoftDynamicsNavServer$NewNAVServerVERBOSE: NavCommand.EndProcessing
This example prompts for ServiceAccount credentials and then creates a new Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server instance.
C:\PS>Get-Credential | New-NAVServerInstance NewInstance -ServiceAccount User -ManagementServicesPort 8099 -ClientServicesPort 8100 -SOAPServicesPort 8101 -ODataServicesPort 8102 –verbose
Creates a new Microsoft Dynamics NAV Web Server instance and binds this instance to a Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server instance.
Parameter Set: Default
New-NAVWebServerInstance -Server <String> -ServerInstance <String> -WebServerInstance <String> [-ClientServicesCredentialType <String> ] [-ClientServicesPort <String> ] [-DnsIdentity <String> ] [ <CommonParameters>]
Use the New-NAVWebServerInstance cmdlet to create a new Microsoft Dynamics NAV Web Server instance and bind this instance to a Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server instance on the same computer or on a remotecomputer. If you call this cmdlet multiple times then multiple instances of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Web Server are created. Each instance of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Web Server is created as an IIS Web application under a generic Microsoft Dynamics NAV Web Server web site.
For more information, see New-NAVWebServerInstance on the MSDN Library.
Creates a new Microsoft Dynamics NAV database from a backup file.
New-NAVDatabase [-FilePath] <String> -DatabaseName <String> [-DatabaseInstance <String> ] [-DatabaseServer <String> ] [-Force] [-ServiceAccount <String> ] [ <CommonParameters>]
Parameter Set: MultipleDestinations
New-NAVDatabase [-FilePath] <String> -DatabaseName <String> -DataFilesDestinationPath <String> -LogFilesDestinationPath <String> [-DatabaseInstance <String> ] [-DatabaseServer <String> ] [-Force] [-ServiceAccount <String> ] [ <CommonParameters>]
Parameter Set: SingleDestination
New-NAVDatabase [-FilePath] <String> -DatabaseName <String> -DestinationPath <String> [-DatabaseInstance <String> ] [-DatabaseServer <String> ] [-Force] [-ServiceAccount <String> ] [ <CommonParameters>]
Use the New-NAVDatabase cmdlet to restore a database from a backup file. You can specify the location of transaction log files and data files.
You can use this cmdlet to restore a database to a remote SQL Server instance or to a SQL Server instance that is running on the same computer on which you run the cmdlet.
For more information, see New-NAVDatabase on the MSDN Library.
This example restores a database and preserves the original file names and locations.
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New-NAVDatabase C:\Backups\backup1.bak –DatabaseName NewDatabase –Verbose | fl
VERBOSE: NavCommand.BeginProcessingVERBOSE: NavCommand.ProcessRecordVERBOSE: Restoring database 'NewDatabase' from backup file: 'C:\Backups\backup1.bak'...VERBOSE: Restore of database 'NewDatabase' from file 'C:\Backups\backup1.bak' has been completed successfully.
DatabaseName : NewDatabaseDatabaseInstance : MSSQLSERVERDatabaseServer : server1.cronus.comVERBOSE: NavCommand.EndProcessing
This example restores a database, moves transaction log files and data files to the new location 'C:\newdestination', and preserves the original file names.
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New-NAVDatabase C:\Backups\backup.bak -DestinationPath c:\newdestination -DatabaseName NewDatabase –Verbose
VERBOSE: NavCommand.BeginProcessingVERBOSE: NavCommand.ProcessRecordVERBOSE: Restoring database 'NewDatabase' from backup file: 'C:\Backups\backup.bak'...VERBOSE: Restore of database 'NewDatabase' from file 'C:\Backups\backup.bak' has been completed successfully.DatabaseName DatabaseInstance DatabaseServer------------ ---------------- --------------NewDatabase MSSQLSERVER server1.cronus.comVERBOSE: NavCommand.EndProcessing
Renames a company in a Microsoft Dynamics NAV database.
Rename-NAVCompany -CompanyName <String> -DatabaseName <String> -NewCompanyName <String> [-DatabaseInstance <String> ] [-DatabaseServer <String> ] [-ErrorLogFileName <String> ] [ <CommonParameters>]
Use the Rename-NAVCompany cmdlet to rename a company in a Microsoft Dynamics NAV database.
For more information, see Rename-NAVCompany on the MSDN Library.
This example renames the company Cronus Ltd. in the Cronus database to MyCompany.
Rename-NAVCompany -DatabaseName Cronus -CompanyName "Cronus Ltd." -NewCompanyName MyCompany –Verbose
VERBOSE: NavCommand.BeginProcessingVERBOSE: NavCommand.ProcessRecordVERBOSE: Renaming company 'Cronus Ltd.' to 'MyCompany' ...VERBOSE: Renaming of company 'Cronus Ltd.' to 'MyCompany' has completed successfully.VERBOSE: NavCommand.EndProcessing
This example renames the company Cronus Ltd. in the Cronus database to MyCompany. Errors are logged to the file C:\NavDatabases\ErrorLog.txt.
Rename-NAVCompany -DatabaseName Cronus -CompanyName "Cronus Ltd." -NewCompanyName MyCompany -ErrorLogFileName C:\NavDatabases\ErrorLog.txt
- Morten Jensen and the rest of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Management Tools team
As many of you may know, Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 includes a new application feature called Assembly Management. It is described as a set of features designed for companies that supply products to their customers by combining components in simple processes, such as assembly, light manufacturing, and kitting.
At this point it may be tempting to ask yourself and your sales consultant: with this definition, isn't Assembly Management in essence the same as Manufacturing? That's a fair question that will be raised in many sales and implementation situations.
The quick answer is yes, it certainly is, insofar as it belongs to the same category of business processes that represent the conversion of a set of products into a different or new product: Manufacturing typically concerns itself with converting (changing the physical nature of) raw materials into finished goods, kitting puts together end-products into a sellable unit, and assembly is often a hybrid of the two.
Now, as the standard application suite for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 includes both Manufacturing and Assembly, how are we to know the subtle difference between the two and to decide which module fits the business and project budget best? Here is some guidance.
Let's start from reminding ourselves that Microsoft Dynamics NAV Manufacturing is a rich functionality that covers a broad selection of discrete production processes and industrial demands. It is meant for manufacturers that operate with multi-stage production processes, with specialized activities at each work operation, long production lead times that result in WIP, versions of BOMs, and have a need for capacity load optimization and control.
Theoretically, of course, with the right setup and user training, Manufacturing feature set could also support lighter production and assembly processes. However, the fact is that due to its scope, complexity, maintainability, price, and sometimes, lack of partners' expertise in the area, customers, especially in the small and mid-size segment, have been walking away from the Manufacturing solution. It is simply not suitable or cost-efficient for them. At those customers, an assembly task often means picking a set of items and packing them into one box that is sold as a kit, making the "production process" a part of regular warehouse operations. For other businesses, the work and labor involved in producing a final assembly is relatively short and consists of very few simple operations that do not warrant the setup and control of work centers, routings, or capacity load calculations.
Those light manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers are looking for a simple manufacturing solution that allows them to manage the conversion process through one-entry-point interface, with minimal setup effort, using employees without university degrees in production engineering, and for an affordable price. And they are the target audience for the new Assembly Management functionality. The assembly granule is included in the Starter license package, comes with minimum setup requirements, supports companies that run both assemble-to-order and assemble-to-stock processes, and is fully integrated with the entire Microsoft Dynamics NAV supply chain suite.
This is also good news for existing customers with assembly and kitting needs, who in the past had little choice but to get the basic Sales BOM journal (as part of Starter license package) and then buy consulting and customization hours from their partner to bring the solution to the desired functional level. Admittedly, this approach did not represent an ideal situation. Partners would in effect have to first build a basic horizontal foundation for the assembly/kit process (as simple as it may be, it is still a manufacturing process) before taking it further into a vertical (if time and budget permitted). Many partners acknowledged that solutions built this way are poorly integrated and remain at the core level rather than support vertical industry needs.
So, with Assembly Management joining the total supply chain offering, new and existing customers will now have more options to consider when deciding what "manufacturing" functionality they need and how much to pay for it. What we have also understood is that at its heart, the new Assembly Management has the same conversion process as a true manufacturing module – it just has a lesser scope, simpler interface, fewer setup options and maintenance requirements, and is cheaper. With this in mind and especially with regard to the latter, should we now not expect that the same license alternatives will also be considered by the manufacturers, who will be tempted to shy away from the core Manufacturing functionality?
Tempted, yes, but upon closer examination and with partner guidance, customers engaged in full-blown manufacturing activities will come to see that Assembly Management may not be the right solution for them. The least desirable situation to find yourself in would be to choose the assembly module and then start paying your partner to beef up the Assembly Management feature, for example, to allow BOM versioning, or to enable work-in-process management, or to support multi-stage production processes. By design, the Assembly Management feature safeguards its conceptual boundaries and protects it from being turned into a full-scope manufacturing.
This is not to suggest that manufacturers shall not be interested in Assembly Management. It is easy to imagine an operational setting where a company will rely on manufacturing modules to support their production activities and then use the assembly feature, to-stock or to-order, when selling the produced products in sets or kits to its customers. Moreover, an item's production BOM may include a subassembly with assembly BOM, an efficient way to ready several components for a work center as one set.
-Olga T. Mulvad
Introducing RapidStart Services for Microsoft Dynamics NAV
If the phrase "IT implementation project" makes your palms sweat and your heart beat faster, this blog entry should be good news. It's about a new service that we developed as a direct result of customer feedback. We listened when customers told us that a simpler and faster deployment would mean a lot to them. And we know how important it is for you to be able to stay focused on your business.
That's why we built special functionality that improves the implementation process -- right in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution. Functionality that makes the entire process smooth. RapidStart Services for Microsoft Dynamics NAV accelerates deployment time, improves the quality of the implementation, gives you better control of the whole process and reduces the cost. Here's why.
RapidStart Services for Microsoft Dynamics NAV actively involves you in a way that makes the entire implementation process transparent. So not only is the implementation fast, but equally important, it is of the highest quality,
Simplifies Configuration and Data Migration
The new services include four main types of tools that simplify data migration and configuration and ensure that the quality of the data stays intact:
A Good Overview and Better Control
The RapidStart Services Role Center gives you a good overview of the setup status. And in more advanced deployments, it allows you to assign a certain set of questions to a specific person. That way you can follow up if questions are not answered in time.
Now, you're probably wondering if this streamlined service is only available on-premise. Well we're happy to offer RapidStart Services for Microsoft Dynamics NAV as a native part of the product. So, it's supported in both on-premise and in the cloud, for greater flexibility.
Does RapidStart Services for Microsoft Dynamics NAV sound interesting?
Do you want to take advantage of the reduced cost of deployment and accelerated deployment time? Then, contact your partner and ask to learn more about how you can get your solution up and running in no time and with better control over the process. See more in this video. If you are a partner, learn more about resources and materials for RapidStart Services for Microsoft Dynamics NAV here (PartnerSource login and password required).


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Thunder has a brutal final two weeks
"Ooh," Brooks said while perusing the schedule. "Can I go back to that original question again?"
All NBA conference schedules essentially are created equal. Division teams play each other four times; they play the remaining conference teams either three or four times; and everybody has a home-and-home against teams from the opposite conference.
Here is where there could be a two-game advantage for the Thunder against Northwest co-favorite Utah.
The Jazz plays Dallas and the Los Angeles Lakers four times each, while the Thunder faces the Lakers and Mavericks only three times each. Utah and OKC play Western Conference leader San Antonio three times.
Is too much being read into all this? Is this paralysis by analysis?
"The schedule's tough for everybody," Brooks said. "There are a lot of good teams, a lot of tough situations where you play back-to-back, but you have to figure out ways to fight through it and win. We're no different than the other 29 teams."

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Wonderful 3 days enjoying the chef's incredibly delicious evening menus and breakfast in bed. The spa facials and massage were amazing. This small hotel makes its guests feel very welcome and comfortable in a relaxed and quiet environment.
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Although we were only staying 2 nights, on arrival we were very pleased to be told we had been upgraded to the best room in the hotel. Booking directly with the hotel and actually speaking to the proprietor beforehand does seem to be a recipe for getting the best experience - this hotel in particular seems to appreciate guests who... More
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Between the wall of bestsellers and the stacks of glossy magazines in the foyer at Powell's Books is a six-tiered rack of hodgepodge booklets — one wrapped in string, a few as small as a pocket Bible. Several have color covers and neatly bound spines, but many appear to have been printed with a black and white copier and stapled with a Swingline. Many have numbers: Yeti 7, Doris 26, The Stolen Sharpie Revolution 2. A sign above the rack says ZINES.
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Zines are dirt cheap to buy and make, which is why the wheels of the zine mini-industry in Portland continue to turn despite the bad economy. Writers and illustrators, small printers and distributors produce hundreds of zines a year locally. The independent book store Reading Frenzy has a wide selection of zines, and zinesters can use the equipment at the nonprofit Independent Publishing Resource Center to print and bind. More than 1,000 zinesters from across the country gathered at PSU for the ninth annual Portland Zine Symposium in July.
The zine scene is also bolstered by its indifference to ROI. "A zine is any handmade publication that's done, typically, by an individual and traditionally doesn't have much advertising, if any, and is usually done out of a sense of passion rather than any hope for a profit," says Justin Hocking, IPRC's executive director.
There are breakout successes such as Dishwasher, a serial zine about washing dishes in all 50 states. The creator, Pete Jordan, who printed three issues at the IPRC, was asked to appear on David Letterman's show and later offered a book deal by Harper Perennial.
Though most zinesters pay their expenses out of pocket, breaking even if they're lucky, some do support themselves with zine revenues. Bitch magazine, headquartered in Portland, started off as a zine and is now a nonprofit with eight employees. The two creators of Yeti, a literary journal that comes with a CD of music, have enough revenue to cover office space and health insurance, but not salaries.
Yeti Publishing shares its office space in southeast Portland with the independent publishing house and distributor Microcosm Publishing, founded in 1996 by Joe Biel. Microcosm carries 2,400 zines and alternative books as well as zinester-appealing merchandise, sold online and through its retail store.
Biel says it's doing so well that five or six of its eight employees don't have second jobs, and he expects the prosperity to continue. Low costs, low prices and willingness to take a loss have made the mini-industry recession-proof, unlike for-profit independent magazines.
"[Independent] magazines have had a total bottoming out. When they tried to get bigger, it backfired," Biel says. "Zines are eternally relevant in that way. It's economical for the people producing them at any level of demand or any scale… It's infinitely affordable."
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