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Do you need a solution that quickly and securely implements any Microsoft Dynamics NAV, with any customizations, on Microsoft Azure while minimizing your risk and your investment? One year ago, Stig Langset, Sales Director of CGI Norway, one of the largest NAV Partners in the Nordics, was faced with this precise problem when this company undertook their first highly customized Dynamics NAV on Microsoft Azure solution (“PowerCloud”) implementation for The Network Alliance.

Have you been spending countless, frustrating hours on documentation preparation for your software solution certification? Partners consider documentation preparation to be a more time and effort consuming task than software development, according to a study we conducted of Microsoft Dynamics Partners.

To help Partners ease the prep work for the Software Solution Test for NAV 2017, 1ClickFactory’s CfMD team have released FREE 1ClickFactory CfMD Documentation Toolkit for NAV 2017 to save you the time and effort of documentation preparation for the 1ClickFactory Self-Test.

Do you know how the latest release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV will impact CfMD for NAV 2017? Find out now! Join us for our How to Prepare & Successfully Pass CfMD for NAV 2017 Webinar, dedicated to Microsoft Dynamics Partners involved in the CfMD process, where you will learn from experts how to better prepare your software solution and your team with minimal time and effort.

When deciding to host your Dynamics NAV’s solution data on Microsoft Azure, it is crucial that you deploy your NAV system in the right Microsoft Azure datacenter region. To determine which Microsoft Azure datacenter location is best you must carefully consider performance and availability. Luckily, this article explains all the factors to evaluate in order to choose the right Microsoft Azure datacenter region as well as the technical aspects of deploying your NAV solution in one region versus another.

As a Dynamics NAV Partner, I am sure you can agree transforming Classic Reports manually using the RTC client is a painful, technical, time-consuming and just plain annoying experience. After a few too many report transformations we got fed up with the arduous process and decided to take matters in our own hands.

More than 5 years ago Microsoft released RTC client causing the need of Classic Reports to be transformed into RDLC. 1ClickFactory Code Transformation Classic Reports to RDLC service for NAV already helped to transform more than 2300 reports for over 130 partners. It saved time, money and even resources in their efforts to rebuild Classic reports as part of their NAV upgrade process or after the upgrade when transforming the remaining objects.

NAV 2016 has brought a lot of new features of which most exciting one is Workflow. However, to test how approvals can be implemented using Workflows, at least 2 users have to be created. To start with, I have restored NAV2016 Cronus database and took time to figure out how approval functionality could be tested. Now, to make it easier for you, I am sharing what should be done in detailed steps at this blog post.

Smarter upgrade options are in your future to provide you with valuable time-cost savings and great value for your customers. In December, we hosted a technical webinar for Microsoft Partners detailing the methodology and steps for smarter, time-saving upgrades to Dynamics NAV 2016 that receive outstanding accolades. In this blog post, we will share key insights from this webinar to provide you with the three top upgrade options.

In previous blog post I explained how to configure NAV service instance with Credential Type NavUserPassword. As this part is already valid, trusted and signed, users can be created and Windows client launched.

Read more details of how to create users using PowerShell in this post.

Business in the modern world is moving at such a near breakneck pace that it can often be difficult to keep up. Our Partners are having to adjust by properly leveraging their software solutions to maintain competitiveness in the market and best provide for their customers. However, the accelerating software updates needed are forcing Partners to regularly invest in software maintenance, which can really add up in such a competitive market. At 1ClickFactory, we offer a wide spectrum of services for software maintenance and different ways to optimize the investment into it.