Erik P. Ernst about Navision and the Dynamics Community

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Beta released

Erik P. Ernst — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:49:33 GMT

You may have already seen it in Vjeko ’s or Waldo ’s blogs, but even so, then I think that this new is so important that it has to be said again. But the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 beta has been released for download on Partnersource . The biggest change in regards to NAV 2013 is that the classic client...(read more)

SOPA would mean a goodbye to community websites

Erik P. Ernst — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:42:24 GMT

I have just read this article about a new law in the US called SOPA, or the “Stop Online Piracy Act” , and it is headed through U.S. Congress with its sister bill PROTECT-IP in the Senate. And while I’m not usually writing about political issues, then I need to mention this and point your attention to...(read more)

Microsoft PartnerSource NAV Favorites (updated)

Erik P. Ernst — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:40:00 GMT

Partnersource is Microsoft's closed site for their partners to gain access to everything from sales and marketing information, whitepapers, new versions and updates etc. But also their knowledgebase including a lot a listing of registered errors and issues (and sometimes including references to fixes and work arounds). If you're a customer, then you might know Customersource. Partnersource is very similar designed.

Compared to the rest of Microsoft's website, then Partnersource is really not very easy to find your way around. It's really not what you could expect from the worlds biggest software company! So over the years I have build up a list of favorites of the places on Partnersource which is most important to me. As there are many new people here on the Dynamics User Group, then I thought I wanted to share this list with you.

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A Change in the Dynamics/ERP Industry?

Erik P. Ernst — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:07:17 GMT

Having worked with Navision since 1990 is quite a long time. And it is also quite interesting to look back upon that time. Both for me personally, but also also on the many changes in the industry. When I started most of our Navision customers were small clients with 1-3 users, and back in the early...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Programming Cookbook

Erik P. Ernst — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:28:00 GMT

It has actually been quite a while since this book was released (it says October 2010 in the book), but somehow I had missed it in the stack of books on my desk always waiting for me. And reading has not been what I have done most the last year. Matt Traxinger is known in the NAV community as MattTrax...(read more)

Navision will not die

Erik P. Ernst — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:20:00 GMT

Over a year ago I wrote a blog post Microsoft is killing Navision about the effect of Microsoft’s change of the name from Navision to Microsoft Dynamics NAV. I was and I am not very happy about this name change, read my old post if want to know why. But I just made a check up on the same statistics...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Upgrades and the RTC Reporting Nightmare

Erik P. Ernst — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:00:04 GMT

Typically I’m not the one who is writing too much about “technical issues” in my blog. But that doesn’t mean that I’m never dealing with “technical issues” – in fact programming and other technical issues is what I’m doing more than 50% of daily working time. And while this blog post is more “technical...(read more)

7th time in the row - MVP award renewed

Erik P. Ernst — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:53:00 GMT

Just a very short message. Today I received the yearly letter from Microsoft, that my MVP Award for Microsoft Dynamics NAV had been renewed. This is the seventh time since I first got it in 2004, when Microsoft first introduced the MVP award to the product that back then still was called Navision. Thank...(read more)

The new Microsoft Partner Network and what it means to the industry

Erik P. Ernst — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:56:21 GMT

Last week Microsoft announced the new Microsoft Partner Network at their Partner World Conference in the US. As Waldo wrote in his blog post , then one of the changes is that Microsoft now requires more people and more certifications from their partners, if they want to continue to be the “best of line...(read more)

Goodbye Microsoft

Erik P. Ernst — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:16:20 GMT

Whenever Microsoft are changing their licensing rules then it means that a number of customers says “Goodbye Microsoft”. And the changes Microsoft did as of June 1st is no difference. Yesterday I had a customer contact me because they had received an email with the following message: On June 1, 2010...(read more)

Top 100 Most Influential Dynamics People (2010)

Erik P. Ernst — Thu, 27 May 2010 10:55:34 GMT

I don’t think anyone who visits this site regularly have missed that the “Top 100 Most Influential Dynamics People” list has been published once again. The top 10 for 2010 looks like this: 1 Kirill Tatarinov 2 Doug Kennedy 3 Adam Warby 4 Thomas Olofsson 5 Mike Gillis 6 Preben Damgaard 7 Klaus Holse Andersen...(read more)

My first Directions conference

Erik P. Ernst — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:25:22 GMT

Last week I participated in the Directions EMEA 2010 conference which took place in Prague in the Czech Republic. It was the first time me to participate in Directions, as this conference is for NAV partners only, and the previous years I have been working directly for end-users. Directions is a conference...(read more)

Directions EMEA 2010: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 announced

Erik P. Ernst — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:52:52 GMT

Today was the first day of this years top Navision conference in Europe. Directions is a conference arranged by and for Navision partners. But Microsoft is surely acknowledging Directions. Not only are they the main sponsor and are sending many of their best people to the conference, but they also used...(read more)

Office 2010 is out - but don't install the 64 bit version!

Erik P. Ernst — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:55:00 GMT

Some weeks ago I wrote in my blog about the release of Microsoft Office 2010 . And then last week it was released. First to Volume Licensing customers and subscribers to TechNet/MSDN. Today I took the time to download the final version from MSDN. I downloaded and installed the 64 bit version, as I'm...(read more)

Microsoft Office 2010 soon to be available

Erik P. Ernst — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:44:00 GMT

Just a short update. This morning I finally got to the bottom of my emails. And one of the things here was that Microsoft two days ago announced that the RTM (release-to-manufacturing) version of the next version of Microsoft Office has been released . On April 27th Volume Licensing customers will be...(read more)