Erik P. Ernst about Navision and the Dynamics Community

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  • The new Microsoft Partner Network and what it means to the industry

    Last week Microsoft announced the new Microsoft Partner Network at their Partner World Conference in the US. As Waldo wrote in his blog post , then one of the changes is that Microsoft now requires more people and more certifications from their partners, if they want to continue to be the “best of line” partners, what they used to call “Gold Partners”. But there are other changes than new requirements toward certifications and number of people. In the material sent out by Microsoft they state these...

  • Microsoft PartnerSource NAV Favorites

    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...

  • Goodbye Microsoft

    Whenever Microsoft are changing their licensing rules then it means that a number of customers says “Goodbye Microsoft”. And the changes Microsoft did as of June 1st is no difference. Yesterday I had a customer contact me because they had received an email with the following message: On June 1, 2010, Microsoft will begin requiring a Business Ready Enhancement Plan when making additional license purchases on supported versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics AX. My customer had received...

  • Top 100 Most Influential Dynamics People (2010)

    I don’t think anyone who visits this site regularly have missed that the “Top 100 Most Influential Dynamics People” list has been published once again. The top 10 for 2010 looks like this: 1 Kirill Tatarinov 2 Doug Kennedy 3 Adam Warby 4 Thomas Olofsson 5 Mike Gillis 6 Preben Damgaard 7 Klaus Holse Andersen 8 Terry Petrzelka 9 Jesper Balser 10 Doug Burgum   Actually quite interesting to see all the names here which I personally have never heard about! But they might have felt the same, when...
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  • My first Directions conference

    Last week I participated in the Directions EMEA 2010 conference which took place in Prague in the Czech Republic. It was the first time me to participate in Directions, as this conference is for NAV partners only, and the previous years I have been working directly for end-users. Directions is a conference arranged by and for Navision partners. Originally it was a US based conference but for three years it has also been taking place here in Europe – or the EMEA area which is Europe, Middle-East and...

  • Directions EMEA 2010: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 announced

    Today was the first day of this years top Navision conference in Europe. Directions is a conference arranged by and for Navision partners. But Microsoft is surely acknowledging Directions. Not only are they the main sponsor and are sending many of their best people to the conference, but they also used the event to announce the release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 . Traditionally Microsoft have only released service packs for Navision and sometimes added minor (sometimes even major) functionality...

  • Office 2010 is out - but don't install the 64 bit version!

    Some weeks ago I wrote in my blog about the release of Microsoft Office 2010 . And then last week it was released. First to Volume Licensing customers and subscribers to TechNet/MSDN. Today I took the time to download the final version from MSDN. I downloaded and installed the 64 bit version, as I'm also running Windows 7 in the 64 bit version. The actual install took a bit more time than I expected, primary because I had to uninstall both some of the old Office 2007 and all the Office 2010 Beta...
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  • Microsoft Office 2010 soon to be available

    Just a short update. This morning I finally got to the bottom of my emails. And one of the things here was that Microsoft two days ago announced that the RTM (release-to-manufacturing) version of the next version of Microsoft Office has been released . On April 27th Volume Licensing customers will be able to start downloading Office 2010, and on May 12th 2010 will be the official release. I hope that those of us with MSDN/TechNet subscriptions will be able to get it on April 27th, but this has not...
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  • Unicode in Navision

    We have discussed this subject many times over the years. And so far Microsoft did never say “you will have Unicode in Navision”, but now, with the release of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Statement of Direction – April 2010, it is official. This is something I have waited for for many years now. But it also means that it will be the death of the native database for Navision. The introduction of unicode will be happening with the release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV “7”, which is planned to hit the markets...

  • It is time to put the Dynamics freelancer in focus

    It’s over 8 months since I wrote about that Dynamics recruiters were wasting our time and I asked the question if we can live without the Dynamics freelance recruiter . That set a lot of things in motion. Seldom have I written something in my blog which gave more feedback. Both directly on the blog, but especially behind the scene, from freelancers and lots of people who wanted to partner with me on this. Also some who just think that I was plain stupid! But it has been some very interesting months...

  • Happy New Year and a new laptop

    I hope that you all had a nice Christmas, in case you celebrate this holiday. Otherwise then I hope that you’ll be celebrating the new years evening with good friends or family. Personally I’ll be home this year with my wife and all our 6 children for a traditional Danish New Years meal consisting of smoked saddle of pork (hamburgeryg), with curly kale cooked with milk and white and sugar glazed potatoes. I know I really haven’t been too active on the website the last month or more, and it’s the...

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Tomorrow is the time of year when most American sits down with their family to enjoy a great meal with Turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes and much more. The day when their tradition say that they are supposed to say “thank you”. Originally it’s told that they said thank you to the Indians who helped them through the first hard winter in America. And since our visitors from the US are making up for over 25% of the total visitors, then I think it’s in the place to say Happy Thanksgiving to all of you....
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  • Where are we going?

    Back in September I wrote that I was working on many new projects. Well I still am. Some of them involving this website – the Dynamics User Group – some of them my company – the Dynamics Experts and some of them a number of new initiatives. The user group Right now my plan is that the user group will continue as it is today. There will not be any major increase in the number of banner ads. Instead I hope that we will be able to find more sponsors. Companies who think that the website is doing an...

  • Avoid Navision spaghetti solutions!

    I’m currently working on a project where my customer have asked me fix some problems with their Navision after they have given up to work with their existing partner. And that would have been a very easy job had it only been a standard Navision. But the customer has purchased a very big add-on which is the foundation of the customer. Normally this would not through me off. And neither will it, but I sure understand why the partner, who is also the developer of the add-on, did not finish up the last...

  • Wake me up before September ends!

    That’s how one of my favorite songs by Green Day sounds. And this is basically how I feel right now. Job wise then until now I’ve talked with tons of recruiters, many different people from my network. About the different idea’s I’ve been writing here on this blog. Right now it seems both like the freelancer, the recruiter and the company ideas are going to become a reality, at the same time I’m going to start a rather important project, that will allow me to continue to be self-employed at least...
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