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You're reading from Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise Explore the capabilities of Dynamics NAV 2018 and Dynamics 365 Business Central and implement them efficiently

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789133936

Length 764 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Tools

Dynamics 365

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Authors (2):

Roberto Stefanetti

Alex Chow

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Exploring Dynamics NAV and MSDYN365BC – Overview FREE CHAPTER

2. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 – An Overview

3. General Considerations

4. Implementation Process – Partner's Perspective

5. Implementation Process – Customer's Perspective

6. Migrating Data

7. Upgrading to Dynamics NAV and MSDYN365BC

8. Development Considerations

9. Implementing Functional Changes

10. Data Analysis and Reporting

11. Debugging with Dynamics NAV and MSDYN365BC

12. Popular Reporting Options

13. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

14. Working and Developing with Docker and Sandboxes

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Upgrading tools

There are several tools that help us in the upgrading process. Some of them must be used at some point in the upgrade process (such as the text format upgrade tool). Others can be used to help us in the upgrade process, but are not mandatory (such as MergeTool). In this section, we will explain them all.

Note

MergeTool is a great product that was published several years ago but is still updated. Today, it's mainly recommended for merging with Microsoft Dynamics NAV. For more information, you can visit http://www.mergetool.com.

Upgrade ToolKit

Upgrade ToolKit is included in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 installation media.

For the Microsoft Dynamics NAV W1 version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, Upgrade ToolKit only includes two folders: Data Conversion Tools and Object Change Tools. For country versions, it also includes an extra folder: Local Objects.

In both the Data Conversion Tools and Local Objects folders, there are two .fob files that have to be used in the data upgrade...