Category: MS Dynamics NAV

Create ISO of Cumulative Update with PowerShell – Get VersionInfo

This step is once again part of a bigger whole: turning your download of a Cumulative Update (CU) into an ISO image. In order to do that, I want to automate as much as possible: also the name and characteristics of the file that I’m creating. In order to do that, there is already a …

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Create ISO of Cumulative Update with PowerShell – Unzip

This post is about the first “step” we need, regarding transforming a download of a cumulative update to an useful ISO file. This step handles on Unzipping the download, and putting it in some kind of destination folder. When you download a CU, it looks something like this: A self-extractable ZIP-file which contains: a folder …

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Create ISO of Cumulative Update with PowerShell – Overview

  As you know, Microsoft is releasing a Cumulative Update (CU) about every month now. Even NAV2015 has its 7th CU. A CU is actually always a complete product cd, with the latest binaries (aka Platform Update, aka build) and the latest application version (aka objects) as database. When you implement the application changes, it …

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Dynamics Learning Portal (DLP): What’s New

Question: What’s New? Answer: What’s New!   Since April 15th, there is a new section on the Dynamics Learning Portal (DLP), called “What’s New“: It gives you access to a numerous topics on different media (blogs, video’s, …) regarding all new stuff that was added in the latest version, categorized by three pillars (same as …

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Select a word/statement: Nice Little Development Goody

I don’t know how they did it, but my colleague (who’s blog I can only recommend :-)) pointed me to a new tiny small possibility in the DEV environment that was added in the newest Cumulative Update. Let’s not hold it from you .. When we want to select a word in any text editor, …

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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Runtime

… is here! In fact, it’s available since April 1st .. but I had other things to blog about ;-). The Microsoft SQL Server Runtime edition is an interesting way for partners to offer a decent SQL Server edition for their Microsoft Dynamics NAV customers. It’s in fact a standard edition of SQL Server, but …

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Reusable Bugs

You must have heard about the Dynamics NAV Design Patterns initiative already. It has been mentioned numerous times on conferences and on blogs. Recently, I was happy to work together with the team on what is in my opinion one of the most important Microsoft Dynamics NAV Design Patterns, what we call “Reusable Bugs“. It …

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Platform updates overview – NAV 2015

Here you go – once again an updated list on the platform updates of NAV 2015. Enjoy! Version Build No. KB number Info NAV 2015 RTM 37874   CU1 38457 3013215 Cumulative update 1 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 (Build 38457) The Windows client crashes after pressing ALT+TAB. Promoted actions jump to the initial ribbon …

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Platform updates overview – NAV 2013 (R2)

Here you go – once again an updated list on the platform updates of NAV 2013 (R2). The list for 2015 will follow shortly.  By the way .. I’m not going to continue to emphasize the “newly added issues” in the list (my making them yellow and italic), as this has too limited added value.. . …

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Start Dynamics NAV Development Client (C/SIDE) from PowerShell

Now when we’re at it .. It might be interesting to also start a development client from PowerShell. Why would it be? Well, just suppose you’re creating a merge-script. And in case of conflicts, you want to: Set up a new database Import the merged objects, including conflicts Open the Development Environment to start solving …

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