With deep investments in new capabilities and improvements across all areas of the product, this is the most significant release yet in the history of Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The feedback from our early adopter customers and partners has been really positive, and we couldn’t be more excited about getting this product out into the market and putting it to work in your customers businesses.

With this release, we’ve focused on building what we’ve come to call “a business solution from Microsoft.” By this we mean a solution that combines comprehensive ERP capabilities for small and midsize businesses together with a simple, intuitive user experience, insightful business intelligence and reporting tools and deep ties into Microsoft’s portfolio of products. The result is an ERP solution that’s easy to use, works seamlessly with your existing productivity tools, and is quick and cost-effective to implement.

We’ve seen some great outcomes from customers already up and running with the new product. For example, Flemming Warrer Jensen, Managing Director of Dixie, a fashion company in Denmark, shared that “With Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 all in all, our inventory management has become 20% more effective.  Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 has been optimal in helping us to streamline processes– and using the time gained on customers.”

We’ve also done a lot of work with Microsoft Dynamics NAV to give you the power of choice - Choice about which client, device or browser your people use to connect with the system. And choice about where and how you deploy the solution—whether that is on-premises or in the cloud. For our partners that build industry and custom solutions on top of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, we’ve made a big investment in improving the “hostability” of the solution. What does this mean in practice? It means you’re up and running faster because partners can deploy and manage Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 in a more streamlined way. It also means that performance
is significantly faster.

Last but not least, we’ve localised Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 for 15 markets: Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Ireland, and United States.  Other localised versions are on the way, but we don’t have dates to share yet. Anyway, that’s just an overview of what’s new. I hope that you’re as excited as our early customers and partners are about the new product. Check out the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 product site here for more information.

View the New Zealand Media Release  on Scoop.

This has recently been published on PartnerSource and CustomerSource.  Download your copy now!

1)     A Half Day course on Setup and Configuration of Management Reporter 2012.   This will include the following:

• Brief technology overview
• Navigation | Toolbars | Menus
• Setup and Configuration:
  • Building Block Groups   
  • Companies
  • Security (Users/Groups/Companies)
  • Report Groups
• Generating and Viewing Reports
• Understanding/Managing the Report library
• Differences between FRx and MR:
  • Report Writing
  • Report
    Generation         
• FRX to MMR migration - Tips and Tricks

 2)  A Full Day course on writing Management Reporter reports.  This will effectively be course 80255 (Report Design in Management Reporter 2.0 for Microsoft Dynamics ERP) as this hasn’t really changed in MR 2012.

Each course will be run twice, giving you flexibility in deciding which one you can attend.  The costs will be $150 for the half day course, and $300 for the full day course. 
Registration is available online for Dynamics Partners now via the Partner Learning Centre, which you can get to by using the following links (or by searching in the PLC):

Setup & Configuration: Morning of Tuesday 13th November - https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?UserMode=0&ActivityId=818478

Setup & Configuration: Afternoon of Tuesday 13th November - https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?UserMode=0&ActivityId=818479

Report Writing – Wednesday 14th November - https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?UserMode=0&ActivityId=818480

Report Writing – Thursday 15th November - https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?UserMode=0&ActivityId=818481

You will of course need to bring a laptop with a virtual machine loaded which contains one of the Dynamics ERP systems with MR 2012 loaded up to the latest service pack, plus for the Report Writing course it would be handy for you if you bring along a copy of the training manual that you can download from PartnerSource following the link above, or CustomerSource.

If you are a Dynamics Customer and wish to attend this course, please email Sue Driscoll who will see if there are places available for you, as you do not have access to the Partner Learning Centre.

Updated to change Dates from October to November.

I have just published my licensing guide for Dynamics AX 2012 for New Zealand partners.  It's been a long time coming!  If you'd like to get a copy, please email me.

Happy reading!

https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/newsevents/events/conferences/2012MicrosoftWorldwidePartnerConferenceJuly8122012.htm

You can also read about it on MSDN - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh173988(v=nav.70).

Here are the links - enjoy!

Statement of Direction for Dynamics GP on PartnerSource and CustomerSource

Statement of Direction for Dynamics NAV on PartnerSource and CustomerSource

If you have installed the AX2012-B and AX2012-C Virtual machines, then not used the B or C ones for over a month, when you log into them again you will probably get the error "The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed."

This is because the link between the B (and/or C) and the A machines from a domain trust point of view must be done within 30 days, or it expires.

The solution is actually quite simple.  Using B as an example - as this is what happened to me, when I went onto B to install Management Reporter 2012:

First - if you logged out of B before you last saved it, you won't be able to sign on.  So change your network settings for that VM so that it doesn't use the private "AX2012" network adapter.  Now you can Connect and log in.  Change the settings back to use the private network (or you won't be able to connect to AX2012-A).  The good thing is you can do this while the VM is up and running, and you're logged in, without any issues.

Once logged in to B, go into your computer Properties, and in your Computer name, domain and workgroup settings area, click Change settings.  You will see it is in the domain: contoso.com.  Click Change, then move it to a workgroup, DO NOT REBOOT, then move it back to the contoso.com domain.  It will (naturally) ask you for an Administrator user and password on that domain.  Enter that, reboot, and all is now fine - you can now remote desktop to this VM.