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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781789133936
Pages 764 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Authors (2):
Roberto Stefanetti Roberto Stefanetti
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Alex Chow Alex Chow
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Exploring Dynamics NAV and MSDYN365BC – Overview Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 – An Overview General Considerations Implementation Process – Partner's Perspective Implementation Process – Customer's Perspective Migrating Data Upgrading to Dynamics NAV and MSDYN365BC Development Considerations Implementing Functional Changes Data Analysis and Reporting Debugging with Dynamics NAV and MSDYN365BC Popular Reporting Options Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Working and Developing with Docker and Sandboxes Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Upgrading steps for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013


In the preceding sections, we saw all the steps that you have to follow to upgrade from the older versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013. In this section, we will explain those steps in more detail.

Preparing to upgrade

No matter what your current version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV is, before you can upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, a migration to Microsoft SQL Server is needed if you are using a native database, as it is no longer available.

A test of the database is also needed before starting the upgrade process. In this section, we will explain how to perform these two processes.

Migrating to Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server (on its 64-bit version) is the only database supported in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013. The native database is gone. If you are using a native database in the older versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you should upgrade to SQL before you start the upgrade process to Microsoft Dynamics...

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