Microsoft releases new cumulative updates for Dynamics NAV 2013 and 2013 R2

The Microsoft Dynamics NAV team has released cumulative update 8 for Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 and cumulative update 15 for Dynamics NAV 2013.

Speaking at recent online meeting of NAVUG, Martin Nielander from the Dynamics NAV product team explained that cumulative updates replace the older service pack approach, A cumulative update rolls up released hotfixes, regulatory updates, and existing business process enrichments, and always includes all previously released cumulative updates. He highlighted the product roadmap and offered some advice for you keeping current with the product and reducing your effort with future upgrades.

Cumulative update 8 includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2. The cumulative update includes hotfixes that apply to all countries and hotfixes specific to eighteen local versions

Additionally, CU8 delivers new functionality for exporting and importing companies and other data. That means you can export a company from a Dynamics NAV database and import it into another database, and you can also export and import other types of data such as global data, application data, and application objects, according to the NAV team.

In previous versions of Dynamics NAV, you exported and imported this type of data as part of backing up and restoring databases. But in Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 CU8, you can do this by using the Export-NAVData and Import-NAVData Windows PowerShell cmdlets.

You can also import and export data in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client, the team said. The NAV team noted that there is very limited support for exporting and importing data in the Dynamics NAV Web client. Instead, use the Dynamics NAV ...