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From the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Blogs: NAV 2013 R2 installation change; Identify licensed objects; Drag and drop file upload; Avoiding data loss

by Linda Rosencrance
Contributing Writer, MSDW

A selection of the latest insight from the Dynamics NAV blogs:

  • Modifying the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 Installation Program;
  • Drag and Drop File Upload for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2;
  • Microsoft Dynamics NAV: Identify Licensed and Out of Range Objects;
  • Avoiding data loss in NAV 2013 R2 when compiling or changing an object

Modifying the Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 Installation Program

This blog post comes to us from the Microsoft Dynamics NAV team. With NAV 2013 R2 Update Rollup 3, in the process of build sealing, a library GUID has been changed.

Accordingly to a previous blog post, the TypeLib GUID has been changed from the RTM value to a new value.

Because of this change, if you try to patch a Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 DVD with the latest platform hotfix from Update Rollup 3, you'll probably receive an error from the Setup.exe that is related to a missing registration of this TypeLib during the installation of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client.

"In order to successfully deploy a new DVD that is fully patched with the latest platform hotfixes, we at the NAV core team could create a new client MSI file for every localized version that we have released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 and include this into the hotfix stack, or we could create a new hotfix package that only contains a ...

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About Linda Rosencrance

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 25 years experience as an reporter/investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in the metropolitan Boston area. Rosencrance has been writing about information technology for the past 16 years.

She has covered a variety of IT subjects, including Microsoft Dynamics, mobile security issues such as data loss prevention, network management, secure mobile app development, privacy, cloud computing, BI, big data, analytics, HR, CRM, ERP, and enterprise IT.

Rosencrance is the author of six true crime books for Kensington Publishing Corp.

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