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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By : Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow
Book Image

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By: Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics Business Central is a full business solution suite and a complete ERP solution, which contains a robust set of development tools; these tools can help you to gain control over your business and can simplify supply chains, manufacturing, and operations. Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise covers the latest features of Dynamics Business Central and NAV from the end users' and developers' perspectives. It also provides an insight into different tools available for implementation, whether it's a new installation or migrating from the previous version of Dynamics NAV. This book will take you from an introduction to Dynamics NAV 2018 through to exploring all the techniques related to implementation and migration. You will also learn to expand functionalities within your existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation, perform data analysis, and implement free third-party add-ons to your existing installation. As you progress through the book, you will learn to work with third-party add-on tools. In the concluding chapters, you will explore Dynamics 365 Business Central, the new Cloud solution based on the Microsoft NAV platform, and techniques for using Docker and Sandbox to develop applications. By the end of the book, you will have gained a deep understanding of the key components for successful Dynamics NAV implementation for an organization.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

The upgrading-process checklist


As mentioned previously, using the PowerShell upgrade is only supported from Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 forward. There are ways to use the PowerShell upgrade if you're running earlier versions, but that is outside the scope of this book. So, the simple rule is to get to at least Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 to make upgrading easier in the future.

If you are on older versions, the official documentation tells you to follow the Microsoft Dynamics NAV upgrade guide for the respective versions for details. Essentially, if you are coming from versions previous to X, you will have to follow guide Y, and so on. If you follow all the steps detailed in all the guides, it will take a long time—hence the rule that the older the version you're on, the more time-consuming and more complex the upgrade.

But there is some good news: if you are planning to upgrade from the older versions, you can skip some steps since the ultimate goal is to get to the latest version.

Note

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