Microsoft Dynamics NAV Sustained Engineering Team Blog : Update Release

Jobs Update for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1 is now released.

Mtoo Norrild — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:16:00 GMT

I am pleased to announce the release of Jobs Update for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1. This update is now available for you to download from Partner Source. Login credentials are required. https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/downloads/releases/MicrosoftDynamicsNAV50SP1.htm

Jobs update rollup corrects the issues that are described in KB article number 954191.

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Mtoo Norrild
Program Manager

Release of Upgrade Toolkit for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1

Mtoo Norrild — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:00:00 GMT

I am pleased to announce the release of Upgrade toolkit for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1. This update is now available for the first countries and it’s ready for you to download from Partner Source. Login credentials are required. https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/downloads/releases/MicrosoftDynamicsNAV50SP1.htm

The Upgrade toolkit update rollup corrects the issues that are described in KB article number 952193.

These postings are provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confer no rights.
You assume all risk for your use.

Mtoo Norrild
Program Manager

How to Re-apply a Language Pack when deploying the Outlook Integration Update for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0

Mtoo Norrild — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:27:00 GMT

The language module file helps you to save the existing text messages and captions, and propagate them to the Outlook Integration Update objects.
How to apply the language module file to the C/AL objects provided with the Outlook Integration Update:

Before you import the objects you received with the Outlook Synchronization Update package, open your localized version of the database.
Select the objects which are going to be replaced by the Outlook Synchronization Update objects (18 objects should be selected).
Go to Tools –> Language Module –> Export.
Specify a valid path and name for the language module file which will be created based on your current objects.
Select the language which corresponds to your country and click OK.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV has now created an *.flm file at the specified location. You can open it with any text editor (for example Notepad) and verify that it contains text messages and captions collected from your localized objects.
Import and compile the C/AL objects included in the Outlook Synchronization Update package.
Select all the objects you have just imported (you can apply a filter to the Version List field and use value “NAVW15.00.PS29299” for the filtering.)
Go to Tools –> Language Module –> Import.
Navigate to the *.flm file created on step 6 and click OPEN to import it. Click OK to confirm your choice.
Verify that the objects contain captions and text constants in your language.

Mtoo Norrild
Program Manager

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Outlook Integration update for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0

Mtoo Norrild — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:09:00 GMT

I am pleased to announce Outlook Integration Update for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0. This update is now available for you to download at PartnerSource login credentials are required.

The Outlook Integration update rollup corrects the issues that are described in KB article number 945879. Apply the Outlook Integration update, following recommendations in the Installation & Setup Whitepaper included in the package, only to systems that are experiencing these specific problems. This update applies to Microsoft Dynamics NAV for all countries and all language locales.

From the link above we have released:

Outlook Add in installation program + set of corrected C/AL objects;
Supplementary installation program, to deploy corrected dlls used by the C/AL objects;
Installation & Setup Whitepaper.

Mtoo Norrild
Program Manager

These postings are provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confer no rights. You assume all risk for your use.

How to use the new Employee Portal with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 4.0 SP3

Mtoo Norrild — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:24:00 GMT

The Released Employee Portal can also work with NAV 4.0 SP3. If you want to run the new employee portal with NAV 4.0 SP3, you need to turn off the compression. This is because the compressions work differently on .NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0. Normal communication and encrypted communication is working fine. Partners will have to remove the compression in NAV and in the web.config of the portal.

1. Remove the “Use compression” check mark in NAV

· To do this, open your NAV client and select the menu entry

· “Administration” – “Application Setup” – “Employee Portal” and click on the link to

· “Application Server Setup”

· The Application Server Setup card opens. Now navigate to the correct NAS record and uncheck the “Use compression” checkbox (see the following screenshot).

2. Remove the compression from the web.config of your SharePoint portal

· On your machine running the SharePoint services please open the Windows Explorer and navigate to the root path of your site (e.g. C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80) and open the web.config file.

· Go to the end of the file to the block “appSettings”.

· Change the value of the node “UseCompression” from “1” to “0”.

Mtoo Norrild

Program Manager

Employee Portal for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0

Mtoo Norrild — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:31:00 GMT

I am pleased to announce the update of Employee Portal for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0. This update is now available for you to download at PartnerSource ,login credentials are required.

Employee Portal for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 includes all the known functionality from earlier versions of Employee Portal and in addition supports Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007).

From the link above we have released:

Product for download
Fact Sheet to support the sales process
Installation Guide to support installation

Mtoo Norrild

Program Manager