Get-NAVAppInfo gives different results in v22

Just a small heads-up that made us scratch our heads for a while.. .

In the new version of Business Central (2023 Release Wave 1 – aka v22), the PowerShell CmdLet “Get-NAVAppInfo” now gives one more dependency in the “dependencies” collection.

Or as pictures say more than a thousand words:

V21 and below:

But from V22, we also get Microsoft’s “Application” dependency in that overview:

It made some of our pipelines fail, as we were looping dependencies, finding apps and such – and obviously, it couldn’t find the “Application” app for the purpose we needed 🤷‍♂️.

Well, it makes sense it reports this dependency since we DO depend from it, but then again, it did break some of our scripts, so now you know ;-).

To avoid having this dependency in your output, you might want to filter the Microsoft-dependencies out of your query, like this example:

(Get-NAVAppInfo -Path ".\company_Distri Extended Tracking_21.2.202314.43023_sandbox_22.0_w1.app").dependencies | where publisher -ne "Microsoft"

Or

(Get-NAVAppInfo -Path ".\company_Distri Extended Tracking_21.2.202314.43023_sandbox_22.0_w1.app").dependencies | where Name -ne "Application"

Whatever works for you in your scenario, of course 😉