March 2007 - Erik P. Ernst about Navision and the Dynamics Community

  • NAV 5.00 has arrived

    Well I hope you have already noticed it. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 has arrived! You can download the client here on http://dynamicsuser.net in the Download area ( Microsoft Dynamics NAV W1 5.0 - Client ) and you can also find all the documentation from the product CD here ( NAV 5.0 W1 - Collected User Documentation for the full pack or you can download most of them individually also here Files/Dynamics NAV/Documentation/NAV 5.0 ). If you don't have a license for it, then you can use the demo license...
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  • SQL and SharePoint we know, but what is PerformancePoint

    "As Microsoft has come out with new versions of its business applications, it's been gradually replacing technologies proprietary to individual offerings with its own software so all the Dynamics families share more and more infrastructure. For instance, Microsoft's SQL Server is their common database, SharePoint is becoming their common portal, and the vendor's working on having all the products tightly integrate with its PerformancePoint business intelligence software, which is due out later this...
  • Old user accounts and posts from MBS Online soon to be online here!

    As I write this post the conversion job is still running, but you can already see many of the old foras online here, as well as all our old member database. So where as we yesterday was "only" approx. 3500 members, then today you will see all approx. 26000 members. As the old site had 24500, then it shows us that we had at least 1500 real new members the last year and approx. 2000 was also active in the old site. If your user name was the same on the old site as it is here on the site, then all your...
  • Security Synchronization in Navision 4.0 SP3

    In my old job we were using Dynamics NAV 3.70 and the database and the user setup just worked fine. Now in my new job at ISS we are using Dynamics NAV 4.00. We started up with Service Pack 2 last year. But here came the big surprise. Every time we added a new user or changed te users permission we had to run the synchronization before the changes worked. And with a database with currently 100+ users (we expect 500+ users by the end of the year), the synchonization took a looooong time to complete...
  • Going Live With the Dynamics Core

    It is long times since I’ve updated my blog here, a long time were a lot has happened. Last time I wrote I had just started a new job as the solution manager for Dynamics with one of the world’s largest companies ISS. We were developing a global core based on Dynamics NAV and Dynamics CRM combined with Microsoft Reporting Services for BI. In the meantime our global core has been finished. And our pilot company in our subsidiary in Thailand is live. Now we are focusing on our next projects, primary...