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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...
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A short while ago I informed you about an important hotfix for Navision 4.0 SP3 and 5.0 SP1. At one of my larger customers in Germany we implemented this build. It is really working great and solves a lot of problems caused by the Dynamics cursors introduced in build 26410. However we have managed to...
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If you like me thought that a career working with Navision, or Dynamics NAV as Microsoft likes to call our system, would be a career for life then I think you need to start and rethink that option. Microsoft is slowly but surely killing Navision without replacing it with Dynamics NAV! Take a look at...
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Time for some tips about how to use the SQL Server Management Studio. This is a really great tool which should be more used by NAV DBA's. First tip is how to include column headers when copying query results. This is something we often use when analysing systems remotely. When opening the management...
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This was a part of Chapter 1 in the first draft of my book Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009. It was cut to keep page count down and preserve the environment, but I figure that a few electrons pushed through the optical labyrinths of The Internet won’t hurt anyone, so here you get it, [...] Read...
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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...
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Where I have been for the past eight months… This blog started enthusiastically, I had as many as 14 posts per month. Taking into account that blogging was only a hobby, I blogged like crazy. Then I went silent.
No, I wasn’t tired from blogging, I didn’t experience a writer’s block, quite the contrary...
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You are consulting for a customer, and they ask you:
- “There is a problem with setup for this item, when I calculate the requisition plan, the system suggests purchasing it, while I have it on another location, and I’d like it to suggest transferring it from that location, instead of purchasing it....
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The long awaited Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 has been released for download earlier this week, and has just been publicly announced at Convergence 2008 Copenhagen. If you have PartnerSource access, you can download Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 here.
This one is the most important release of Microsoft...
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Last Friday, while enjoying a not-at-all healthy Salisbury steak with cheese, I had an interesting discussion with a partner: should NAV consultancies create default databases?
A default database (in this context) is a packaged solution built upon standard Microsoft Dynamics NAV, where a consultancy...
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When working with the Outlook Synchronization using Dynamics NAV 5.0, Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1 and Dynamics NAV 2009 (present release: CTP4) in an Exchange Server environment, the following very annoying error may show up in the Outlook Addin. The related item for the synchronized Outlook item is not found...
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One of many improvements the latest version of Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step methodology has brought along is the revised purpose of the Functional Requirements Document (FRD). This document has long served as cornerstone of every Analysis process of every implementation project: it was the main deliverable...
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Don’t you just love when users come up with new feature ideas at a microprocessor clock rate. Even before you finish developing one, five new requests pop up. This is a disease, and it’s called featuritis!
Featuritis doesn’t mean the features are just sporadically requested and developed...
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While using NAS with OSYNCH parameter in a Dynamics NAV 5.0 + partnersource update 25874 or Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1, we had to use the Localization Tips that were published on page 55 of the Setup and Installation Guide: When a localized version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV is used, some actions are required...
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After configuring demo entities TASK and APP in NAV and after creating a ToDo of Phone Call and / or after creating a ToDo of Meeting, there is an error in the Outlook Add-in: An error has occurred during the synchronization process. You can find the error details in the log file. Please contact your...