In the last few Coffee Break posts we have been looking at virtual hard disks (VHDs) and virtual machines (VMs). Now let's combine the two in the cloud. Coffee Break 11 – Provisioning - Using Microsoft Azure storage to keep VHDs and other useful stuff in the cloud Provisioning a new instance of Microsoft Dynamics NAV is like putting individual bits together. In this Coffee Break post, we will prepare some of these bits by building a VHD up front and then upload it to Azure. Then every new...

The was about creating a new Virtual Hard Disk (vhd). This time we will create the rest of the machine (VM) in Microsoft Azure. Coffee Break 10 – Provisioning (Creating a Virtual Machine (VM) in Azure) A central part of provisioning a Microsoft Dynamics NAV deployment is of course to provision the actual machine (well the virtual actual one) that the system is running on. The provisioning script on the Microsoft Dynamics NAV product media has two options – both in the “WindowsPowerShellScripts...

If you have turned on the xact abort connection setting option for the Microsoft Dynamics NAV SQL Server instance, then you should watch out for Zombies. With this option turned on, users of your solution risk seeing an error stating This SqlTransaction has completed; it is no longer usable along with a crash signature which includes a call to the ZombieCheck() function. You can set the xact abort configuration option on a SQL Server instance by right clicking on the instance name in SQL Server Management...

After covering some basic management operations for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, we thought it might be the time to look under the hood of the Dynamics NAV cloud provisioning script. The script in its entirety is fairly large and complex. But stripped away from all the wrappings and bundling, it can be broken down to small, fairly simple units. Coffee Break 9 - Provisioning (Creating Hyper-V disks) Provisioning is the PowerShell scripts on the Dynamics NAV product DVD in the folder WindowsPowerShellScripts...

Dynamics C5 for tablets is now available for download from the App Store, Google play, or Windows Store. For more information, see previous announcement of Microsoft Dynamics NAV for tablets. Note: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 CU1 must be installed if you are using Microsoft Azure Active Directory as the authentication mechanism. Get the app today Google Play is a trademark of Google Inc. Apple and the Apple logo are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App...

This is an addition to the release note for the Amendments to VAT on Prompt Payment Discounts update for the British version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, 2013 R2, and 2015. The Amendments to VAT on Prompt Payment Discounts update is based on the Adjust for Payment Discount feature, which is already part of the W1 and GB versions. However this feature is typically not used in the GB version. Therefore, this blog post provides some information about the Adjust for Payment Discount feature. In...

Here at Microsoft we strive to create reusable and generic solutions, in order to improve efficiency and ship better software. We had revisited some of our best practice principles and had turned them upside down to get a better and more complete view on development in general. Description It widely known that bugs are unfortunately a commonly found part of software development and that there is no way to create zero-bug software. Knowing that bugs are and will stay a part of software, we have...