SQL Server 2017

  • Moving the generic images!

    UPDATE: The tag of the SQL 2017 image is no longer {0}-0.1.0.25 – it is now {0}-sql2017. A few years ago, when we started out shipping containers for NAV, we didn’t know that the name NAV was going away and Business Central would emerge. In the Docker world, this becomes clear in a lot of ways. The Generic image is called mcr.microsoft.com/dynamicsnav:-generic The PowerShell module was called NavContainerHelper The first repo on Docker hub was microsoft/dynamics-nav The projects on github...

  • Using SQL Server on the host

    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 This blog post reflects the old way of using NAV/BC on Docker and references NavContainerHelper, which is outdated. I have had quite a few partners asking me how to connect a NAV / Business Central container to a SQL Server placed on the host. This is the way I started...

  • Windows Server 2019 and SQL Server 2017

    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 This blog post reflects the old way of using NAV/BC on Docker and references NavContainerHelper, which is outdated. Windows Server 2019 (1809) finally shipped (again) and with that we have a new LTSC (Long Term Servicing Channel). This means that we will begin creating images for Windows Server 2019 as...