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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016

By : Rabindra Sah
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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016

By: Rabindra Sah

Overview of this book

The book begins by giving you a brief introduction to setting up your NAV environment and shows you how to install and configure it according to your requirements. You will then dive deep into the latest design patterns, network architecture, and topologies. We will show you how you can integrate NAV with the Microsoft platform, and secure your deployment by managing roles and permissions. Moving on, we will explain how to monitor and manage server instances using the Administration tool. We’ll discuss how you can take advantage of the expanded extensibility and connectivity capabilities for a tighter integration with the cloud as well as handheld devices. Then, we’ll show you how you can make use of the PowerBI capabilities that have been built into Dynamics NAV. By the end of the book, you will be confident in developing and administering a Dynamics NAV implementation that will leverage all of the new features.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Team Foundation Server/Services


The Team Foundation Server (TFS) is the same as GitHub in a sense but is comparatively less useful. It is a product of Microsoft for source code management. It also supports Visual Studio (even GitHub can be connected to Visual Studio).

I will not go in details on how to set up TFS on a server; instead, I will provide a link that you can easily Google, https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh561426(v=vs.120).aspx.

And the link for the Setup Team Foundation Server on Visual Studio is https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/setup-admin/tfs/install/get-started.

TFS setup for Dynamics NAV

These are straight forward steps, similar to those involved in installing any other Microsoft product. Now, I will assume that you have successfully set up the TFS in your Visual Studio system. You can follow the following steps for the setup of TFS for Dynamics NAV:

  1. The first step after you have set up TFS is to create a folder structure, a bit similar to what we did for GitHub...