From the NAV Blogs: How to Avoid Errors in Technical Upgrades, Overcome Obstacles in Word, Leverage SQL Server Scripts Wizard, and Move an Application in the Desktop

How to Avoid Errors in Technical Upgrades for NAV2009: The Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team Blog provides step-by-step instructions: "When doing a technical upgrade (Upgrading all executable files but keeping the database and application objects untouched) in NAV2009, remember to also compile all objects for the new version of executables. Compiling all objects must be done when doing a technical update from NAV2009 RTM (No SP) to SP1.

"The way objects get compiled for the Role Tailored Client (RTC) has changed between NAV2009 RTM and SP1, and may change again in future versions as part of general improvements. Until you compile all objects in a SP1 Classic Client, opening a NAV 2009 RTM demo database with NAV2009 SP1 RTC will give you a lot of errors..."

Room for Improvement: Overcoming Challenges of Microsoft Word in NAV: PM Architect Freddy Kristiansen (Freddy's Blog) offers technical insight on the limitations with Word in NAV, and ways to circumvent these obstacles: "As with the release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, I was also deeply involved in the TAP for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1. My primary role in the TAP is to assist ISVs and partners in getting a customer live on the new version before we ship the product... During this project we file a lot of bugs and the development team in Copenhagen are very responsive and we actually get a lot of bugs fixed - but... not all...

"One of the ...