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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

Upgrade tools


There are various tools you can use in order to assist your Microsoft Dynamics NAV upgrade. The following is the list of tools that we will discuss in this section:

  • Dynamics NAV Upgrade toolkits

  • Application test toolsets

  • PowerShell cmdlets

Dynamics NAV upgrade toolkits

Dynamics NAV upgrade toolkits contain data conversion tools and upgrade guides:

  • Data conversion tools

  • Upgrade guide

Many VARs and other partner companies have developed their own ways of upgrade tools since they have their own upgrade standards, and most of them also want to keep the versions of objects while upgrading.

Tip

For version control strategy, refer to Chapter 6, Version Control and Code Management.

Data conversion tools

Microsoft provides you with data conversion tools in the Installation DVD. We also talked briefly about different folders and their functions in the first chapter of this book. Here, we will understand what FOB files inside the data conversion tools mean and how we can use them.

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