Tag: Development

Powershell: The Merge-commandlets for NAV 2013

I have been looking forward to blog about this, since I have been testing and working with these commandlets for quite some time now. With the release of Cumulative Update 9, these commandlets are being released .. so FINALLY I’m able to blog about it. But I’m not gonna .. at least, I’m not going …

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NAV 2013 R2: Export objects with PowerShell

A while ago, I create a blog about a way to import objects in NAV with PowerShell. Well, it’s time to do the opposite, and export objects. This is the function I came up with (pardon the formatting – copy/pasting really made it difficult for me…): function Export-NAVApplicationObjectFile { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [String]$WorkingFolder, [String]$ExportFile, [String]$Database, …

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Renumbering tables in NAV 2013 R2 – be careful!

Object ID’s .. it’s still a hassle .. but something we’re all used to work with. But sometimes, ID’s of objects need to be renumbered. You have to move a piece of functionality to a new number band, or you want to incorporate a piece of an app into another database, which would result in …

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NAV 2013 R2: Import objects with PowerShell

You know PowerShell is hot, right? And the fact that Dynamics NAV is using Powershell more and more, is good. Very good. I like it .. you must have figured that in previous post ;-). We also are familiar with the finsql.exe .. and options we have with it. And if not, The Microsoft Team …

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Powershell script to search for “How Do I”-video’s for NAV 2013 (R2)

As you might know, lately, I have been working on the “How Do I”-video-series about various topics regarding Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013. these video’s are posted on MSDN, PartnerSource and Youtube. (And hereby, you got the links to easily find them – bookmark them, please :-)). Now, as you migth have noticed, me personally, I …

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How to Create a NAV 2013 R2 Multi-Tenancy Demo Environment

I have had a few people asking for this .. So I’m just going to share you my script that I always use to convert a Single Tenancy Demo Environment to a Multi Tenancy Demo Environment, with some (Empty) companies per Tenant and such.. . And I’m going to make it easy on me .. …

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NAV 2013 R2: Migrating from Multi-Tenancy back to Single-Tenancy

A lot has been written about how to migrate from Single Tenancy to Multi-Tenancy. Video’s have been created, blogs have been written, Sessions have been given.. . The question that I always get – is “what about the other way around?”. So, how do I migrate back to a Single Tenant Environment? I’ve spend some …

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The Hooks Pattern

You remember NAVTechDays, right? The place where a lot begins, and a lot happens. 🙂 Well, I explained in my wrap-up of NAVTechDays2013 that there was (some) attention on something called “The Hooks Pattern”. Because of that – I dedicated a topic, specifically on the Hooks-pattern (which was also handled during our Pre-Conference Day workshop …

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NAV 2013 R2: Powershell function to check if ServerInstance is Multitenant or not

Hi, to end the year with – here is a small tip. I’m working on improving the Backup/Restore procedure from this blogpost .. . While doing that, I was looking for a way to see whether my current instance was actually a Multitenant-server or not. In a way, I had to be able to read …

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NAV TechDays 2013

Directions EMEA is over (and there is much to talk about – since NAV2013R2 is bloggable now;-)). Directions US is coming, but I’m not taking part of that either – because of my son being born and such ;-). But what I AM going to take part of, is this year’s NAV TechDays on the …

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