NAV and Multi Factor Authentication (MFA)

Posted on January 23, 2017 by freddykristiansen

Over the last weeks I have gotten an increasing number of inquiries around MFA. To be honest, I had never tried to setup MFA before, but that didn’t stop me from answering.

My typical answer would be the following:

NAV itself does not have any knowledge about multi factor authentication, but we do support claims based authentication through authentication providers and if these authentication providers are setup for MFA, then NAV should support MFA through the authentication provider.

Having answered the same thing a number of times, I decided it was time to try it out. Continue reading →

The BingMaps Extension (and some tips and tricks)

Posted on January 19, 2017 by freddykristiansen

On the Azure VM, you will find a couple of extensions: BingMaps, O365 and MSBand.

These extensions are primarily there in order to show how you would do certain things in extensions. It is my intention to create an app in AppSource for each of these apps as well when time allows. In this post, I will describe how the BingMaps extension was built and how it works. Continue reading →

NAV 2017 CU2 on Azure

Posted on January 11, 2017 by freddykristiansen

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 CU2 will be released any minute now (it is being deployed to Microsoft Download Servers while I am writing this post), but for once, the Azure Image made it before the MSDN download pages.

The Image is now available in the classic portal and with http://aka.ms/navdemodeploy. The image will be available in the new portal in a few days. Continue reading →

NAV 2017 CU1 on Azure

Posted on December 12, 2016 by freddykristiansen

Last night, the NAV 2017 CU1 image was uploaded to the Azure Gallery. A lot of things have changed, some things looks the same. The biggest change is of course that NAV on the image now is NAV 2017 CU1 instead of RTM, but also the a number of the pre-requisites for NAV have been updated or removed. Continue reading →

http://aka.ms/navdemodeploy – under the hood

Posted on November 20, 2016 by freddykristiansen

You might be wondering what actually is happening when you navigate to http://aka.ms/navdemodeploy, so I thought I would lift the hood and show you what is underneath. Continue reading →

http://aka.ms/navdemodeploy – using PowerShell

Posted on November 19, 2016 by freddykristiansen

It is part of my DNA, that no matter how easy things have become, it can always become easier.

In this post, I have stated, that the easiest way to create a NAV 2017 environment on Azure is using http://aka.ms/navdemodeploy. But what if you want to create the same environment again and again or you need to create an environment in 5 different languages? Continue reading →

One NAV 2017 on Azure – Loaded please…

Posted on November 19, 2016 by freddykristiansen

There is a huge difference in ordering a baked potato and a loaded baked potato.

The potato is the same, but it just becomes so much better will all the add-ons.

So, how would you like your NAV 2017 on Azure?

NAV 2017 on Azure, Loaded please…

of course:-) Continue reading →

Updates to the Azure Gallery Image… – kind of…

Posted on November 12, 2016 by freddykristiansen

Note: Updated on November 16th with info on the Excel Add-In

Note: Update on November 18th with info on PowerApps and Flow.

The Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 Image on Azure has been live for a few weeks and I have received a lot of feedback that it is very hard to setup the new things in NAV, like:

Outlook Add-in
Excel Add-in
Embedded PowerBI
Microsoft Flow
PowerApps
Azure services
etc.

Indeed, you are right. It is very hard. especially when you are used to just running a script and have everything done for you, but if you think back, it is not that different from when you had to create Provider Hosted SharePoint Apps in Visual Studio, setup self signed certificates that didn’t work with anything but Windows etc. etc. Continue reading →

Connecting to NAV Web Services from PHP- take 2

Posted on November 6, 2016 by freddykristiansen

Back in the days – January 19th 2010 to be exact, I wrote a blog post on how to connect to NAV Web Services from PHP here.

Web Services was fairly new and there wasn’t a lot of info out there on how to do things.

The “old” blog post has been read over 76.000 times (yes, seventy six thousand times) and I have received numerous comments and emails on whether this works with NAV 2016 and how you would do things today. Continue reading →

The Microsoft Dynamics NAV Image in the Azure Gallery

Posted on November 5, 2016 by freddykristiansen

By now, we have had a Microsoft Dynamics NAV Image in the public Azure Gallery for 1-2 years and just last week, we shipped the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 image and also the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cumulative Update 13 is now available in the gallery. Continue reading →

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