Hello again! We have been busy installing new customers to Azure, and I'd like to write a short blog jut to remember what one has to do before publishing. Good instructions how to publish database to Azure SQL you can find from this link: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn951458(v=nav.90).aspx However, msdn articles sometimes miss information, and here is the things you have to remember to make it work easier. If you don't have a SSL certificate, forget it. Certificate is the first thing to get . And it has to have both client and server sides in it! I strongly suggest using…

Hello all! Microsoft keeps updating our beloved NAV regularly. They provide both application hotfixes and platform hotfixes. Since there is plenty of blog posts about object update and merge already, this blog post concentrates on how to update the client binaries, a.k.a. platform. In the old days, Microsoft provided hotfix -folders named as ADCS, Applicaton Server, Classic Client etc, from where NAV technician then copied the contents to installed folders, for example Classic Client contents to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\60\Classic -folder. Since 2015 CU01, Microsoft…

Microsoft published a while ago (files dated to 5th of Jan 2017, and publicly available at 9th of Jan, and publicly withdrawn again 18th of Jan) the latest Cumulative Update for Dynamics products. This blog post concentrates on Dynamics NAV 2016 Cumulative Update 15. At the time of writing this, the download pages are down, therefore I cannot provide you download link for the update, but there is KB article about the update available: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3216191/cumulative-update-15-for-microsoft-dynamics-nav-2016-build-47671 Note that the KB article misleadingly talks about…

Dear reader I have been suggested by many of my fellow Dynamics NAV professionals to start a blog of my own. This year I took the bull by the horns and decided to start blogging. I have been working with Dynamics NAV for over a decade now, starting from 2006 version of Microsoft Business Solutions NAV 4.0 SP2/3 which was selected as the ERP for the group of companies I was working as an IT manager at the time. Currently I am working at Innofactor Oy as a Senior Architect in our ERP team that is concentrated on AX and NAV solutions. I will collect here some of my old posts I have been posting earlier…