We finally got first view on new modern DEV environment for NAV. This is still not finished product, but we can see something already announced on Directions NA and Directions EMEA this year. We expect final version of this tool for developing extensions somewhere about Christmas.
Now the first project is public published ans all of you can download it from https://github.com/Microsoft/AL. This is just simple “Hello World”, but good enough for the first sight. Unfortunately, I didn’t download it earlier and I can just start to play with it. Just download it and be updated.
NAV TechDays 2016 has just finished a few days ago. Unfortunately, I missed it this year. I wanted to be there with you in Antwerp and I already announced session with Steven Renders about Power BI, but I had to cancel my attendance. I know, Steven perfect prepared this session without me because he is an expert for this topic.
OK, life goes on. I really hope I missed only this year and I’ll be there the next year. Now, all sessions are already published and I want to have all of them on the one place. There are all of them:
The Power of Power BI and Dynamics NAV by Steven Renders
Office 365 for NAV Techies by Arend-Jan Kauffmann
Best Practices in Developing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 Extensions by Waldo
Real Life Source Code Management by Soren Klemmensen
Modern Developer Tools for Dynamics 365 and on premise NAV by Michael Hammond & Esben Nyhuus Kristoffersen
Bad Habits of NAV Developers by Waldo, Vjeko Babic and Gary Winter
Migrating to Events by Gunnar Gestsson
Building Cool Experience with NAV Everywhere by Horina Serbanescu, Eygo Kawatani and Andrea Tino
Design Patterns in NAV 2017 by Anders Larsen & Nikola Kukrika
JavaScript Architecture – Turning Pain Into Gain by Vjeko Babic
Get Some Smartness into Dynamics NAV / 365 with Notifications and Cortana Intelligence by Klaus Marius Hansen & Jesper Schulz-Wedde
Building the Dynamics 365 for Finacials Services by Kamil Koclega & Constantin Daniil
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 is already alive and there are a lot of new features. Partners who have access to DLP portal, already saw some videos and materials, but we finally get some public How Do I videos on YouTube.
Dynamics NAV 2017 has been published three days ago and we already got NAV 2017 Demo Image on Azure. This is very short period and this is amazing. All people who want to test NAV 2017 don’t need to install it on its computers, but they can use it on Azure. Great job.
Currently, we can create demo image only if we use old Azure Portal. We just need to start with new virtual machine from gallery image and choose Dynamics NAV 2017. We need to configure a few fields and wait a few minutes. And yes, we can use NAV 2017 with a lot of interesting tools.
But be careful; if you prefer new Azure Portal, you cannot do it. It is still not possible, but I expect it will be done in few following days. Now, just go to the old portal and finish procedure.
Of course, you can see this VM using new portal as classic VM, but you cannot create it. If you need this VM only for testing, my recommendation is to use D1 or A2 sizes. They are good enough for all tests and you will not spend a lot of your money for this purpose.
When you create VM and run it, you can start with initializing of NAV. On my first sight, there are the same PS scripts as well as on the older NAV demo images. I will test all of them and if I find something new, I’ll publish this.
Two weeks after Directions EMEA is finished, we finally got the newest release of NAV. Now we have NAV 2017 and we expect Dynamics 365 BE during the next year (I think on non-US market). We sow the AND story about NAV and Dynamics 365, but I still think NAV partners are on the very important crossroads. I don’t expect they need to choose what business they will need to continue, because I strongly believe we can continue with both of these products, but I’m sure partners have to change their approach to this business. And this is not connected with NAV or Dyn365; new approach must be used for both of them. They have to find the best possible way to transfer their business to cloud, they have to change the way of developing (extensions, events…) and so on.
Because of that, I strongly recommend to all Dynamics partners to read the good story on MSDynamicsWorld about how Microsoft Dynamics NAV partners face crucial decisions on their future. This article can help to NAV partners how to focus thinking about their businesses. Early adopters of new business model will be in much better positions in the future and because of that it is very important not to become obsolete.
From today, Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 is available for download. You can find download link on PartnerSource. But currently it has some issues when you try to download (I hope it will be solved soon).
*This issue is solved yesterday. If you still have a problem because you cannot download, press F12, choose Emulation and change Document mode to 9. System will continue with downloading.
On this link you can find W1 version and all official localizations and language modules. Partner Translation Toolkit will be available soon, but you can find system requirements, installation information and release notes. We can find all information about process of ordering NAV 2017 license for new and existing customers as well.
Now we finally can use Flow features with Dynamics NAV. When you run Flow on https://flow.microsoft.com, you can find Dynamics NAV service.
When you start from My flows, you can choose one of two NAV triggers:
When record in NAV is created
When record in NAV is modified
You can also find the same triggers, but for Dynamics 365 for Financials. You can start and make your first flow. You just need a few basic information.
All of use expected general availability of NAV 2017 yesterday, but we need to wait just few days more. As we can find on Partner Source, Microsoft announced general availability of NAV 2017 for October 28. On this day, we will get:
Directions EMEA was finished one week ago. Ten days before, we finished with Directions NA conference. Both of these conferences were amazing and it was an honor to attend on them and to have some presentations.
After these presentations, people who attended ask me to get these presentations. I know that both of Directions will publish these presentations, but in the mean time, I want to give you everything I prepared.
On the following link, you can get all three presentations:
DirectionsNA – Water-Agile-Fall methodology and NAV implementation
DirectionsNA – Choosing the best possible Azure platform for NAV
DirectionsEMEA – Choosing the best possible Azure platform for NAV
Thank you for being on my sessions and see you the next year in Orlando and/or Madrid. If you have some additional questions, do not hesitate to ask (you can use direct messaging on blog). Cheers.
Today on NAVUG Summit, we finally got a release date of new Dynamics 365 Finance (ex Project “Madeira”). Dynamics 365 Finance will be available at November 1st.
It will be available just one week after general availability of NAV 2017. But, this availability will be for US and Canada market. I’m still not sure, but I expect Dynamics 365 Finance for Europe market in Q1 or Q2 next year. I cannot wait this moment because I strongly believe this is a product which will make a huge impact on global ERP market.
OK, tomorrow is new day and the start of new conference – Directions EMEA. We will wait and I’m sure we will get some new interesting things from beginning.
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