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  • Perf testing with multiple users

    This post is #2 in a series of posts about performance testing, please make sure you have read this post first. In the previous post, you created a NAV Virtual Machine, installed Visual Studio, install Git, Cloned the NAV 2017-Sample repository from the NAVPERF organization, configured the settings and ran the test scenarios. Now, we need to add users. Users and Tenants When testing your solution it is important to run your tests in an environment as close to real-life as...

  • So you want to get started on perf testing, huh???

    On November 10th, I tweeted that the NAV 2017 version of the Load Test Sample Project was available – expect some blog posts:-) Hopefully you haven’t been pressing F5 on my blog for the last 35 days… – but wait no more. I will of course use the Azure Image as foundation for running performance tests. There are a lot of reasons for this, the primary being, that it is a known foundation, we know whats there, where it is...

  • NAV 2017 CU1 on Azure

    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. Building the image A number of pre-requisites are installed before installing NAV on the image. All of these have changed in NAV...

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

    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. Short URL As you probably know, the aka.ms Short URL’s are just simple redirects and the navdemodeploy is redirecting to: https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.Template/uri/https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FNAVDEMO%2FNAV2017%2Fmaster%2Fdeploydemo.json Looking a little closer, this is actually just asking the Azure Portal to create a deployment based on the Microsoft Template on this Uri: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NAVDEMO/NAV2017/master/deploydemo.json If you read the blog post about...

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

    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? Then there is a lot of typing in names, and passwords and a lot of things...

  • One NAV 2017 on Azure – Loaded please…

    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:-) This blog post is a visual walkthrough of how to setup NAV 2017 on Azure, Loaded. It consists of a LOT of screenshots explaining what to do… For assistance on easier...

  • Updates to the Azure Gallery Image… – kind of…

    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...

  • The Microsoft Dynamics NAV Image in the Azure Gallery

    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. What is it? In essence, it is just a Windows Server 2012R2 with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and SQL Express pre-installed, but there is of course more to it than that. The Image also contains...