Partnersource is Microsoft's closed site for their partners to gain access to everything from sales and marketing information, whitepapers, new versions and updates etc. But also their knowledgebase including a lot a listing of registered errors and issues (and sometimes including references to fixes and work arounds). If you're a customer, then you might know Customersource. Partnersource is very similar designed.
Compared to the rest of Microsoft's website, then Partnersource is really not very easy to find your way around. It's really not what you could expect from the worlds biggest software company! So over the years I have build up a list of favorites of the places on Partnersource which is most important to me. As there are many new people here on DUG, then I thought I wanted to share this list with you.
International Main Page
This is the welcome page for international partners. You might also land on the welcome page for your own country. But you can always change to the international page (I'm not sure if you can change to other countries pages, I think this depends on your setup).
Dynamics NAV Solution Page
I always change directly to the page specific for Dynamics NAV to see the latest news for Dynamics NAV. Lately this page has become better. Now you have a "Quick Links" box, which actually is quite ok. The great thing about the Dynamics NAV page is that you can now subscribe using RSS to the different areas of the page (Sales & Marketing, Support & Deployment, Training and Certification, Most Recent/Popular KB Articles). But as a developer, none of these are really worth too much. At least not to me.
Launch Portals and Download Pages for Dynamics NAV
I think knowing that people cannot find their way around Partnersource, then Microsoft has created Launch and Download Portals for the different versions of Dynamics NAV. First time they did this was with the relesae of NAV 4.0 SP3. On the Launch Portals you find links to everything from announcements, release notes, known issues, presentations, fach sheets, white papers and training links. On the Download portals lanugage modules and the "actual" product CD/DVD download as well as upgrade toolkits for all countries.
Database Archive for Microsoft Dynamics NAV (US/NA versions)
This page is great. Includes all databases from version 1.00.B to 3.70. Does also contain the Improvement documents and some of the old manuals. The only problem is that this only contains the US/NA versions. I whish somebody had a link to a similar pager for other countries.
Upgrade Toolkit Archive for Microsoft Dynamics NAV (US/NA versions)
Also a great page if you need to upgrade an old version of Navision. Includes upgrade toolkits back to Navision Financials 1.0 (when it was called Avista Financials) up to Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1. This page would also be great to have for all other countries.
Navision Developers Toolkit Archive
A nice page to find the older versions of Navision Developers Toolkit. (*1)
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Local Functionality
This page contains links to files describing the local functionality of all the localized version of Dynamcis NAV.
Microsoft Dynamics Training Materials
Training materials for Dynamics. (*1)
Microsoft Dynamics VPC's
Download the VPC's (virtual pc's) from this page. Both for Dynamics NAV, Dynamics GP and Dynamics AX etc. (*1)
Microsoft Dynamics NAV on MSDN
Not really a Partnersource page, but Microsoft's own page with lots of links to tools where most are still found on Partnersource. (*1)
Other valuable pages
Overview of Released Application Hotfixes for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1 and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 (*2)
This page lists application hotfixes (code fixes) that have been
released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1. The hotfixes also applies
to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2.
When you enter the links directly from the blog entry here, then you get a message: "Referring link not Secure". The way to get around this is to copy the html from the page and then open a new page and insert it here.
If you have other "goodies" from Partnersource, then I would love to hear from you.
(*1) This was added after the first publishing of this blog post on Feb. 5 - 2009.
(*2) This was added on Oct. 26 - 2011
Posted
2011-10-26 11:40
by
Erik P. Ernst