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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

About the Reviewers

Dhan Raj Bansal graduated in Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering from Kurukshetra University. After scoring All India Rank 6 in the national-level entrance test called GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) in 2003, he got through in prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India) in M.Tech (Instrumentation Engineering). In 2005, he started his professional career as Navision Technical Consultant with PwC, India.

Currently Dhan Raj works as a Freelance NAV Developer and Business Analyst. He has worked for clients in the US, UK, Denmark, Australia, Dubai, Nigeria, and India.

Dhan Raj is an active member of the online communities for NAV, such as dynamicsuser.net, mibuso.com, and the online forums managed by Microsoft. For his contributions to these online communities, he received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award in July 2010. The MVP Award is given out by Microsoft to independent members of technology communities around the world, and recognizes people that share their knowledge with other members of the community.

Dhan Raj lives with his family in Gurgaon, India. He loves mathematics and solving puzzles.

Tony Hemy started working with Navision Financials straight out of secondary school in 1998 in Southampton, England.

In the years since, he has travelled the world developing and deploys Dynamics NAV in three Microsoft regions (North America, Asia Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa) and over a vast variety of industries.

Tony spent six years as a reserve soldier in the UK, the only break in his 12-year NAV career coming as a six-month United Nations peacekeeping tour in Cyprus with the British Army's Royal Regiment of Artillery.

Currently living in Vancouver, Canada as the Senior NAV Consultant at The RSC Group, Tony's work includes designing with Dynamics NAV code, as well as visioning and consulting.

Outside of work Tony enjoys mountaineering and rock climbing.