What's New in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016​

- Works natively with CRM

CRM Integration – Enables an seamless experience for the users when they are using Dynamics CRM for customer management and Dynamics NAV for order processing and financials.

- Dynamics NAV – Workflows

Workflows enable you to model real-life business process like best practices/industry-standard.Workflow is defined as the movement of documents or tasks through a work process like approval, notification and process automation.

- Extensions

Introducing a new way to customize the application without modifying the underlying C/AL code and metadata. Distributed via an "extension package" file, such customizations can be easily installed, upgraded, or uninstalled. for enabling changes of application behavior without code modification, we have also introduced the concept of events in C/AL programming language. (source:https://mbs.microsoft.com/files/partner/NAV/).

-Test automation suite

The test automation suite adds testing capabilities to the development environment, the C/AL language, and the runtime platform that's eliminate manual testing. the suite includes repeatability, reducing man hours and improving efficiency.

Creating and Managing the Dynamics NAV2015 Multi-Tenant Environment –Using Development Shell

1. Import NAV Admin tool from NAV Dir.

Import-Module 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\80\Service\NavAdminTool.ps1'

2. Stop NAV service

Set-NAVServerInstance DynamicsNAV80 –Stop

3. Export NAV Application object to seperate database

Export-NAVApplication -DestinationDatabaseName NAV15-APP -DatabaseName "Demo

Database NAV" -DatabaseServer TEST-DEV -ServiceAccount "domain\user"

4. Remove NAV Application from database.

Remove-NAVApplication -DatabaseName "Demo Database NAV" -DatabaseServer TEST-DEV -Force

5. Update NAV Middle tier for use a Tenant database structure

Set-NAVServerConfiguration -ServerInstance DynamicsNAV80 -KeyName DatabaseName -KeyValue ""

6. Restart Dynamics NAV Server

Set-NAVServerInstance DynamicsNAV80 -Start

7. Mount Application Database to Dynamics NAV Middle tier Service

Mount-NAVApplication -DatabaseServer TEST-DEV -DatabaseName NAV15-APP -ServerInstance DynamicsNAV80

8. Mount Company database to Tenant which is contain two companies (CRONUS Canada, Inc. and CRONUS USA, Inc.) in My Demo database

Mount-NAVTenant -Id Default -DatabaseServer TEST-DEV -ServerInstance DynamicsNAV80 -DatabaseName "Demo Database NAV" -OverwriteTenantIdInDatabase

9. Save the NAV tenant configuration in Middle tier service

Save-NAVTenantConfiguration -ServerInstance DynamicsNAV80

10. Move Companies to Tenant database

      Import powershell script from installation folder/media,

      Eg:  C:\Temp\Dynamics.80.NA.1538476.DVD\WindowsPowerShellScripts\Multitenancy

 Import-Module "C:\temp\Dynamics.80.NA.1538476.DVD\WindowsPowerShellScripts\Multitenancy\NAVMultitenancySamples.psm1"

HowTo-MoveCompanyToTenant -ServerInstance DynamicsNAV80 -FromDatabase "Demo Database NAV" -CompanyName "CRONUS Canada, Inc." -OldTenantName Default -NewTenantName CRONUSCAN -ToDatabase CRONUSCAN -DatabaseServer MSSIAP-DEV -ServiceAccount "Domain\user" -RemoveCompanyWhenMoved

11. Create new database and create new company in Multi-Tenant envoirment

      To create New database, open SQL Management Studio and create a new database

      name: NAV2015-TEST-T1DB and then,

Mount-NAVTenant -Id TESTT1 -DatabaseServer TEST-DEV -ServerInstance DynamicsNAV80

 -DatabaseName NAV2015-TEST-T1DB

12. Sync New Tenant

Sync-NAVTenant -Tenant TESTT1 -ServerInstance DynamicsNAV80

13. Create New Company in New Database

New-NAVCompany -CompanyName NAV2015-T1 -ServerInstance DynamicsNAV80 -Tenant TESTT1

15. Get List Tenants under the NAV Server Instance

Get-NAVTenant Dynamicsnav80 |Format-Table