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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software product that integrates financial, manufacturing, supply chain management, sales and marketing, project management, human resources, and services management information from across your organization, into a centralized database. It can take hours to browse through documentation and references available online to learn how to install, configure, deploy and administer Dynamics NAV. This book aims to offer quick-start information in one place.You will be amazed to find out how easily you can administer Dynamics NAV using this quick step-by-step guide. This book also has recommendations for software and hardware requirements including operating system considerations and hardware considerations for administering Dynamics NAV to your advantage. It covers some advanced functions to set up periodic activities, common batch jobs, and create object files. It will also guide you to secure your database by creating backups and improving performance with practical examples.First you will look at the considerations for deploying Dynamics NAV and best practices and the most important aspects of every ERP installation. Then you will install Dynamics NAV—client and server components and use Dynamics NAV with the Microsoft Stack.We discuss the Dynamics NAV Security Architecture including security recommendations and best practices. You will then create and restore backups. This book covers some recommendations about performance tuning—using appropriate code syntax, proper hardware sizing, and considerations for writing customized C/AL code while using SQL Server database.Finally, you will set up procedures for scheduling pre-defined reoccurring processes, error and exception handling procedures, and provide mechanisms for automatic data processing on the server. Also, you will learn different methods used in handling, promoting to the database, and creating object files—tables, reports, codeunits, forms, pages, dataports and XMLports.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Setting up the Environment for Dynamics NAV

Installing the RoleTailored client for Dynamics NAV


Microsoft introduced a revolutionary client for the Dynamics NAV 2009 and subsequent version called the RoleTailored client for Dynamics NAV. The concept behind this client release is to give an experience to the user of Dynamics NAV, to be able to view their routine tasks and making it a lot easier for them to navigate across the pages and application areas. This is achieved by allowing Microsoft VAR(s), developers, certified consultants, and so on to create Role Centers for the Dynamics NAV users based on their day-to-day tasks. While doing so, an additional layer of application was introduced as a middle-layer component, called Dynamics NAV server. This layer essentially provides an additional level of security for the application and with the use of the Windows communications framework, opens up the application to Web services.

Let's walk through the process to install the Dynamics NAV 2009 RoleTailored client and also the Dynamics...