Upgrades prior to Dynamics NAV 2013
by Alex Chow
Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Third Edition
- Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV Third Edition
- Table of Contents
- Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV Third Edition
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Exploring Microsoft Dynamics NAV – An Introduction
- Understanding Microsoft Dynamics NAV
- The functional areas within Dynamics NAV
- History of Dynamics NAV
- Functional areas
- Accessing Dynamics NAV
- Summary
- 2. What's New in NAV 2016?
- Application changes
- Improvements for the application users
- Tablet client
- New application features
- Automatic payment and bank reconciliation
- Signing up for the Bank Data Conversion Service
- Reconciling payments automatically
- Reconciling bank statements automatically
- Social Listening
- Power Business Intelligence
- RapidStart services
- Schedule reports
- E-mailing documents
- Document exchange service (OCR Services)
- Exchange rates update
- Native integration with Dynamics CRM
- Universal app
- Workflow management
- Posting Preview
- Deferrals
- Development changes
- IT changes
- Summary
- Application changes
- 3. Dynamics NAV – General Considerations
- 4. The Implementation Process – From the Reseller
- 5. The Implementation Process on the Customer Side
- 6. Migrating Data
- Tools to migrate data
- RapidStart Services
- Using XMLports to migrate data
- Writing your own tools
- Converting data from the old system to Dynamics NAV's needs
- Master data
- Open entries
- Historical data
- Open documents
- Choosing a go-live date
- Summary
- Tools to migrate data
- 7. Upgrading Microsoft Dynamics NAV
- Upgrading philosophy
- Upgrades prior to Dynamics NAV 2013
- Upgrades from Dynamics NAV 2013 forward
- Upgrading process checklist
- Upgrading steps to NAV 2013
- Upgrading tools
- Summary
- 8. Development Considerations
- 9. Functional Changes on Existing Implementations
- 10. Data Analysis and Reporting
- 11. Debugging
- 12. Popular Reporting Options with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
- Index
An upgrade project from versions prior to Dynamics NAV 2013 can be an easy task or a large project. It really depends on the amount of modifications that are done and the version of Dynamics NAV you are upgrading from. The basic principle is that the older the version, the more involved it will be for you and your company.
Summarizing, the processes to upgrade versions prior to Dynamics NAV 2013 are:
- Backup your existing database (of course)
- Compare and manually merge the codes that are modified to the latest version of Dynamics NAV
- Convert the database to the version you're upgrading to by opening it in the new version of the software
- Import the merged objects (new version objects with customizations) to your current database
- Run the processes to upgrade your data
All these steps are done manually and some steps are very time consuming. There are horror stories of developers pulling all nighters just so they can execute the next step in the upgrade process.
It's not a very good use of time and money for both the partner and the customer. But this was how it was done when I was younger.
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