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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013

By : Laura Nicolàs Lorente, Cristina Nicolàs Lorente
Book Image

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013

By: Laura Nicolàs Lorente, Cristina Nicolàs Lorente

Overview of this book

<p>Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application used in all kinds of organizations around the world. It provides a great variety of functionality out-of-the-box in different topics such as accounting, sales and purchases processing, logistics, or manufacturing. But it also allows companies to grow the application by customizing the solution to meet specific requirements.<br /><br />"Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013" explains all you need to know to successfully handle your first Dynamics NAV 2013 implementation. You will learn what the application can do out of the box, how you can extend it to meet any kind of requirements, and how to manage real implementation projects with real customers.<br /><br />This book does not only cover typical topics when implementing the new version of an ERP system; topics that are not found in any previous documentation of Dynamics NAV, such as the implementation process at the customer side, or implementing functional changes on existing Dynamics NAV implementations are included in here. This approach makes this book different.<br /><br />After reading "Implementing Dynamics NAV 2013" you will be empowered with the skills and knowledge you need for successful implementations.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Upgrading steps in detail


In the preceding sections we have seen all the steps that you have to do in order to upgrade from older versions of Dynamics NAV to Dynamics NAV 2013. In this section we will explain all those steps in detail.

Preparing to upgrade

No matter what your current version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV is, before you can upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, a migration to SQL Server is needed if you are using a native database, because it is no longer available.

A test of the database is also needed before starting the upgrade process. In this section we will explain how to perform those two processes.

Migrating to SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server (on its 64-bit version) is the only database supported in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013. The native database is gone. If you are using a native database in previous versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you should upgrade to SQL before you start the upgrade process to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013.

The steps to upgrade to SQL Server will not...