Erik P. Ernst about Navision and the Dynamics Community

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  • 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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  • Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Service Pack 1 – What’s New?

    As you’ve been able to read in other blogs both here on DUG and on other websites, then on September 1st Navision 2009 service pack 1 was released in the so-called Group 1 countries. That includes Australia Austria Canada (English and French) Denmark France Germany India (English) Ireland Italy Mexico the Netherlands New Zealand Spain Switzerland the United Kingdom the United States Additionally, or should I say basically, then the World Wide (W1) version was released. The W1 version is the...

  • Is this THE BOOK about Implementing Navision?

    Ever since I started working with Navision in 1991 I have heard new consultants asking me for where they can get THAT BOOK about how to implement Navision. The book that the consultant could use as his/her companion not only through the first implementation or two, but through the the first two-three years of working as a Navision consultant. This is NOT that book. But David Roys (aka Gaspode) and Vjekoslav Babic’s book Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 is still a great book. In fact a book...

  • No old versions of Navision on Windows 7 for me!

    One of the reasons why I wanted to upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 was that I was told that it was possible to run the older versions of Navision here . So when Windows 7 was release in its RTM (released to manufacturing) version, then I was quick to download it and install it. Until now my experience with Win 7 has been ok. But I was not really unhappy with Vista, like most other people I have met. My Vista (64 bit version) was running fine. So it has not really been that big a change. I...

  • Great Microsoft! Not!

    I had already heard about the bummer with the Mac Book on the Microsoft advertising. But now this comes up that this was not all they did. Check the picture below: Whereas it’s ok that the black guy is on the American, then the Obama effect has not been really hit Poland. So using Photoshop they have replaced his face. But they really didn’t do a very good job. They forgot to change the color of the Polish mans hand!   Source: http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2009/08/microsoft-poland-at...
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  • The Project Management Hut

    It’s not often that really meet a website where I think, “Wow this website I really want to share with everybody!” But although this website has a very specific target, then here is a site! The.Project.Management.Hut is really a must know site for everyone working with project management. They have so many great articles about project management. So many that I really have a backlog of 5-6 good posts that I want to read, but simply don’t have the time to read, although I’m...

  • Can we live without the Dynamics freelance recruiters?

    In my last blog I wrote about why I think that the Dynamics recruiters are wasting our time . That cause a lot of people to confirm that they also had that experience. My blog post was primary directed against the recruiters who are mostly working with Dynamics freelancers. Not so much with the recruiters working with the more permanent jobs. It’s my personal experience that they are a bit more serious than the ones only working with freelancers. The funny most thing is that actually many recruiters...

  • Are the Dynamics recruiters also wasting your time?

    As I have written before in this blog, then I was fired from my job at ISS . Instead of finding a new job I decided that I wanted again to go down the road of Microsoft Dynamics NAV / Navision freelance projects, as that would allow me to also spend much more time on this website. So where am I now after three months with no job. I’m at the same place – still no contracts. Yes I have had many requests my CV from the recruiters. But none of the many Dynamics recruiters I have been in touch with have...

  • Blogging with Windows Live Writer

    More and more users are blogging about Microsoft Dynamics. Not only here on the Dynamics User Group but everywhere. And to help people with many blogs and people who just like to do the “work” offline and then publish, then Microsoft has created the Windows Live Writer (WLW) as a part of their Windows Live Suite. Last year David Singleton wrote a splendid blog about creating a blog directly from word . That was before Windows Live Writer was released. I don’t really know how many are actually using...

  • Who is the is the winner of the Dynamics Community Competition 2009?

    For the second time we are now able to announce who the winner of the "Dynamics Community Competion 2009" is. The purpose of this competition was to get more active members of the community, especially the Dynamics User Group. And as the base rule of the competition that neither David Singleton (co-admin) or I could win the competion, that means that the winner is Dave Trenor (aka DaveT).Congratulations to Dave! You're doing a great job! In the period Dave has not been the member with...
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  • Microsoft is Killing Navision (part 2)

    In my blog last week I documented the fact that Microsoft is Killing Navision. That has led to a lot of comments, both here and in many other blogs and on LinkedIn. But I think that many people didn't read all of my blog post, as many thought that I said that they where killing Navision because it was a bad product, or that they where planning to dump it any day soon. But do not doubt. NAV or Navision is a great product! And the guys and girls working with the product are all doing a great job...
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