Tag: PowerShell

Learn NAV PowerShell during your coffee breaks

Just wanted to point your attention to a great initiative of some people at Microsoft, that is trying to help you getting along with PowerShell. They try to do this under the concept:”Learn PowerShell during your Coffee Breaks” :-). Great idea, great initiative, and it should get to most attention that it can get. My …

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Create ISO of Cumulative Update with PowerShell – Create the ISO

This is the last step in turning your download of a Cumulative Update (CU) into an ISO file. In this part, we want to be able to copy a certain folder on your drive to a new ISO file. I had no idea how to start with this .. and what do you do when …

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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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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2015/05/26/create-iso-of-cumulative-update-with-powershell-get-versioninfo/

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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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2015/05/25/create-iso-of-cumulative-update-with-powershell-unzip/

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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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2015/05/22/create-iso-of-cumulative-update-with-powershell-overview/

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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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2015/03/01/start-dynamics-nav-development-client-cside-from-powershell/

Start Dynamics NAV Windows Client (RTC) from PowerShell

After my sessions during “conference season”, I promised to blog about my scripts. I decided to do this on small pieces of scripts .. and this one is so useful, though I only realised it was useful until I wanted to do a gimmick during a script. I’m actually using it all the time now …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2015/02/20/start-dynamics-nav-windows-client-rtc-from-powershell/

Get a specific Dynamics NAV Server Setting with PowerShell (a better Get-NAVServerConfiguration)

You might remember this blogpost: NAV 2013 R2: Powershell function to check if ServerInstance is Multitenant or not. It was a small tip on how to check a certain setting. Recently I was working on a script, where I needed some other serversettings, and looking back on the way I was doing the above .. …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2015/02/10/get-a-specific-dynamics-nav-server-setting-with-powershell-a-better-get-navserverconfiguration/

Remove a “Dynamics NAV Web Client” (Remove-NAVWebServerInstance)

You might have run into this .. trying to remove a Web Server Instance, but not finding a corresponding PowerShell commandlet for that. As you know, there are LOADS of PowerShell commandlets for server administration. But in the list, there is not a “Remove-NAVWebServerInstance”. This list kind of prooves it: Is it forgotten? I don’t …

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Running PowerShell from NAV

Lots to blog about .. . After all my sessions in the different conventions, I promised to blog the solutions, the scripts that I used during the sessions. Well, let’s start with the most interesting one .. at least in my opinion ;-). Not a script Indeed .. I’m blogging about PowerShell .. and it …

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