3 ways partners can improve the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 upgrade process
Microsoft introduced Dynamics NAV 2015 in October 2014, and the wide range of improvements has been a favorite topic of discussion among professionals. Existing NAV customers have an important decision to make about when to upgrade to NAV 2015, and partners have an important role to play in assisting in that decision. Partners must understand NAV 2015 upgrade best practices, and they must find ways to improve the upgrade experience for their clients.
Our company works primarily on Dynamics NAV upgrades and we have observed three important ways in which the NAV 2015 upgrade process can be improved.
Learn more about new upgrade tools in the new version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Microsoft has prepared a set of tools to simplify upgrades and make them more efficient. If you are upgrading to NAV 2015, you must complete the following main steps: convert the database, upgrade the code, upgrade the data. Though conversion of the database is a simple and straightforward task, the last two steps are tedious and time-consuming.
Microsoft has introduced additions to RapidStart tool set - RapidStart Upgrade - Code and RapidStart Upgrade - Data. The first tool is a PowerShell-based tool, which allows you to merge code more efficiently than text-based code merging tools as it understands the code structure. You should also start using the new data upgrade tools in NAV - a new type of codeunits has been introduced, which have a simplified approach to converting data between two versions of the solution. Moreover, data migration is run in parallel and makes the conversion of a 50GB database, not much slower than a 1GB - both can be completed in a half hour.
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