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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

Chapter 9.  Upgrade and Migration

In the previous chapter, we became familiar with the different security elements of Microsoft Dynamics NAV. We examined the security aspect of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 and understood how Microsoft has managed to keep security its major concern while redesigning the Dynamics NAV system. The chapter provided us with a better idea when it comes to the interconnectivity of different platforms and different solutions with Dynamics NAV. We also discussed different security policies and measures to keep the system secure.

In this chapter, we are going to dig deep into the technicality of the upgrade process. This chapter has some prerequisites, which are simple upgrade knowledge using simple or no tool. The chapter will basically try to focus on the benefits of implementing automated processes, such as the use of PowerShell-like tools, allowing you to optimize your effort while conducting an upgrade process. The chapter also includes in-depth knowledge of different...