Update 2021/2/10: Microsoft stopped creating images for Docker in the summer of 2020. We now publish artifacts, which can be used to spin up containers and BcContainerHelper has replaced NavContainerHelper. This blog post reflects the old way of using NAV/BC on Docker and references NavContainerHelper, which is outdated.
If you are using public Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on Docker, this blog post contains important information.
First of all, I am sorry that I didn’t publish this blog post earlier. It was written 2 months ago and I actually thought that I published it, but apparently not. It was still in my list of draft blog posts:-( So – I wrapped it up – and here you are…
Docker hub
If you have been using public Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Dynamics 365 Business Central Docker images, you will know that they have been published to Docker hub on microsoft/dynamics-nav and microsoft/bcsandbox. You will probably also have seen blog posts or other information describing that images are moving to the Microsoft Container Registry for better performance and better security.
We are currently not publishing images to Docker hub and we will likely remove the existing repositories. The latest images on Docker hub are from April 16th and is Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 CU16.
Microsoft Container Registry
As of May 1st 2019, all new public images will only be available on the Microsoft Container registry – mcr.microsoft.com.
Dynamics 365 Business Central On Premises Containers
The new address for Dynamics 365 Business Central on Premises containers is:
**mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/onprem:**
where **** describes the version you need and is composed of:
---
or
--
where
**** is
- **1810** for the first version of Business Central on Premises shipped October 2018
- **1904** for the second version of Business Central on Premises, shipped April 2019
- **latest** for the latest version, which at this time is 1904 (default)
**** is
- **rtm** for the initial version
- **cu1** for cumulative update 1
- …
- **latest** for the latest cumulative update (default)
**** is the localization you want
- **dk** for Denmark
- **de** for Germany
- **na** for North America
- …
- **w1** for international (default)
**** is
- **ltsc2016** for Windows Server Core 2016 based image (default)
- **ltsc2019** for Windows Server Core 2019 based image
**** is the application version number composed of 4 numbers (Major, Minor, Build and Release)
### Examples
- **mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/onprem:1810-cu5-dk-ltsc2019**
- Danish cu5 of Dynamics 365 Business Central fall 2018 release for Server 2019
- **mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/onprem:1904-rtm-ltsc2016**
- Spring 2019 Dynamics 365 Business Central w1 for server 2016
- **mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/onprem:ltsc2019**
- latest Dynamics 365 Business Central on Premises w1 for Server 2019
- **mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/onprem**
- latest Dynamics 365 Business Central on Premises w1 for Server 2016
- **mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/onprem:14.0.29537.0-dk-ltsc2019**
- Danish Dynamics 365 Business Central version 14.0.29537.0 (spring 2019) for Server 2019
## Dynamics 365 Business Central Sandbox Containers
The address of containers for Dynamics 365 Business Central Sandbox is:
**mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/sandbox:**
where **** describes the version you need and is composed of:
--
or
--
where
**** is
- **update25** for the April 2019 update
- **update26** for the May 2019 update
- **latest** for the latest update i.e. current version online (default)
**** is
- **dk** for Denmark
- **ca** for Canada
- **us** for United States
- …
- **w1** for international (default)
**** is
- **ltsc2016** for Windows Server Core 2016 based image (default)
- **ltsc2019** for Windows Server Core 2019 based image
**** is the application version number composed of 4 numbers (Major, Minor, Build and Release)
### Examples
- mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/sandbox:ltsc2019
- latest Dynamics 365 Business Central Sandbox container for server 2019
- mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/sandbox
- latest Dynamics 365 Business Central Sandbox container for server 2016
- mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/sandbox:dk-ltsc2016
- Latest danish Dynamics 365 Business Central Sandbox container for server 2016
## Microsoft Dynamics NAV Containers
The new address for Microsoft Dynamics NAV containers is:
**mcr.microsoft.com/dynamicsnav:**
**Note**: dynamicsnav is without a hyphen on mcr
where **** describes the version you need and is composed of:
---
or
--
where
**** is
- **2016** for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016
- **2017** for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017
- **2018** for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018
- **latest** refers to the latest version, which is 2018 (default)
**** is
- **rtm** for the initial version
- **cu1** for cumulative update 1
- …
- **latest** for the latest cumulative update (default)
**** is the localization you want
- **dk** for Denmark
- **de** for Germany
- **na** for North America
- …
- **w1** for international (default)
**** is
- **ltsc2016** for Windows Server Core 2016 based image (default)
- **ltsc2019** for Windows Server Core 2019 based image
**** is the application version number composed of 4 numbers (Major, Minor, Build and Release)
### Examples
- **mcr.microsoft.com/dynamicsnav:2017-cu5-dk-ltsc2019**
- Danish cu5 of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 for server 2019
- **mcr.microsoft.com/dynamicsnav**
- Latest Microsoft Dynamics NAV w1 for server 2016
- **mcr.microsoft.com/dynamicsnav:ltsc2019**
- Latest Microsoft Dynamics NAV w1 for server 2019
- **mcr.microsoft.com/dynamicsnav:11.0.33812.0-dk-ltsc2019**
- Danish Microsoft Dynamics NAV version 11.0.33812.0 (NAV 2018 cu19) for server 2019
I hope this is helpful
_**Freddy Kristiansen**_
Technical Evangelist
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Thanks, Freddy. As always, it is helpful.
Just wanted to let you know about a typo or copy and paste issue:
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Containers
The new address for Dynamics 365 Business Central on Premises containers is:
You want to probably change the first part of the sentence under the “Microsoft Dynamics NAV Containers” heading to:
The new address for Microsoft Dynamics NAV containers is:
Thanks – a copy/paste error:-)
Does this apply also for appsource validation? The instructions on partner central still says microsoft/bcsandbox
Yes, I will let the team know.
Thanks for all your Work, Freddy.
You posted this link in another blog entry: https://aka.ms/getnav
This Azure template doesn’t work with these containers. I tried: mcr.microsoft.com/dynamicsnav:2018-cu5-at-ltsc2019
The setup fails because the container seems to be older than 90 days.
Is it possible to ignore this check? Sometimes I/we have to work with old containers. Therefore it would be nice to skip this check.
The ARM templates are using -accept_outdated (line 145 https://github.com/microsoft/nav-arm-templates/blob/master/SetupNavContainer.ps1) – and as such this shouldn’t happen, unless you have an old VM, where you are refreshing the container.
If you encounter issues like this, you are welcome to file an issue on github (repo above) describing the error in detail.
I understand the private images are still in the same place.
Insider images are still on bcinsider and available through Collaborate
I am having an issue with BC docker images that I am hoping I could get some help.
On my server I have several images pulled already, like 30 of them. When I pull the following image in my Pipeline script and right away create a container, it creates the container but from another image that was pull before not the one that my script has just pulled!
I don’t know why this is happening! If I don’t have any image pulled (if I prune them), then it creates from the one that I just pull. Here how my script would look like where the imgeName along with the other variables are parameters that I pass on my Pipeline:
$imageName = ‘bcinsider.azurecr.io/bcsandbox-master:us’
docker pull $imageName
New-NavContainer -accept_eula: $true `
-doNotCheckHealth `
-updateHosts `
-containerName bcmaster `
-imageName $imageName `
-alwaysPull:$true `
-auth “UserPassword” `
-Credential $credential `
-licenseFile $license `
-doNotUseRuntimePackages
Here is what I see in Pipeline log and as you may see ti creates with Version and Platform 15.X where is it should be 17.X today
Status: Downloaded newer image for bcinsider.azurecr.io/bcsandbox:us
bcinsider.azurecr.io/bcsandbox:us
Creating container mytest
NavContainerHelper is version 0.7.0.3
NavContainerHelper is running as administrator
Host is Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Datacenter – ltsc2016
Docker Client Version is 19.03.5
Docker Server Version is 19.03.5
Removing C:\ProgramData\NavContainerHelper\Extensions\mytest
Using image bcinsider.azurecr.io/bcsandbox:us-ltsc2016
Disabling Health Check (always report healthy)
Creating Container mytest
Version: 15.5.41898.0-us
Style: sandbox
Platform: 15.0.41893.0
Generic Tag: 0.0.9.99
Container OS Version: 10.0.14393.3443 (ltsc2016)
Host OS Version: 10.0.14393.2906 (ltsc2016)
WARNING: The container operating system matches the host operating system, but the revision is different.
If you encounter issues, you might want to specify -isolation hyperv
Using locale en-US
Using process isolation
Disabling the standard eventlog dump to container log every 2 seconds (use -dumpEventLog to enable)
Using license file C:\License\D365BC16.flf
Files in C:\ProgramData\NavContainerHelper\Extensions\mytest\my:
– AdditionalOutput.ps1
– license.flf
– MainLoop.ps1
– SetupVariables.ps1
– updatehosts.ps1
Creating container mytest from image bcinsider.azurecr.io/bcsandbox:us-ltsc2016
84ba0d07e1c400a90672ed7e1a981f8ad17e89530a72aa2b35c9cb09b26f2fbe
Waiting for container mytest to be ready
Did you try with hyperv as suggested by the warning?
Else create issues here: https://github.com/microsoft/navcontainerhelper/issues where people can help solve your issue,.
Thanks for your reply. The hyperv param did not help. Still I see it creates a wrong container with 15.X. I will post to the above links.