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Available NAV Hotfixes download using KB article #

gediminb — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:50:00 GMT

We are changing hotfix download procedure. It is not finished by we are on the way.

So you can try to download NAV hotfix if you know Kb article for bug you want to correct.
For example:

You know you need fix for KB article 961430 - The filter values are not populated automatically into the page fields as expected in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 RTC client.
You go to https://mbs.microsoft.com/knowledgebase/search.aspx and search for KB article.
You got link to KB article https://mbs.microsoft.com/knowledgebase/KBDisplay.aspx?WTNTZSMNWUKNTMMYSZRRNOTTUKOOSTLLTRLKPPTYWTYUNZOUTRWWRTKOLTWNKYSZ
In the upper left corner is link to "View and request hotfix download". It opens http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=961430&kbln=en-us
You enter your email and confirm picture and receive email to download fix.

One more trick: if you know KB article No# you can add it directly to link http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=968411&kbln=en-us and you can download fix.

Super NAV PM Freddy BLOG

gediminb — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:29:00 GMT

This is BLOG by NAV 2009 program manager, he describing very instesting points about NAV 2009 achitecture and tips&tricks to manage it.

address http://blogs.msdn.com/freddyk/

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1 released for Group 2 (GR2) countries

gediminb — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:49:00 GMT

June 17th Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1 released for Group 2 (GR2) countries.

Download can be from partnersource.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1 latest available version/build

gediminb — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:02:00 GMT

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1 build 26084.
Current available fixes:

5/29/2008. KB 953245; build 26654. Cfront folder. "C/Front hangs while generating a lot of temp files "
6/11/2008. KB 952373; build 26751. Client folder. "Selecting specific Printer Tray does not always work"
6/26/2008. KB 951631; build 26751. Client folder. "NAV 5.0 SP1 locking error when you print a report that calls code in a form"
6/30/2008. KB 953545; build 26751. Client folder. "Local variable values not updated in debugger"
6/26/2008. KB 954342; build 26810. Client folder. "NAV shows unexpected results when filtering, and may crash "
7/4/2008. KB 954672; build 26948. Client folder. "Certain jobs can run slower after upgrading the NAV client to KB 950920 for version 4 (build 4.0.3.26410) or version 5 SP1."
7/16/2008. KB 954722; build 27002. Client folder. "Microsoft Dynamics NAV can crash in certain situations. Some times, you will receive this error message:
"You cannot make any changes in the database until a transaction has been started." Or, "Error 1247 in module 19". Or, some times the NAV application will just terminate."
7/17/2008. KB 955740; 3.0.0.208. BA files. "When you run the Business Analytics Configurator for Microsoft Dynamics NAV and a cube contains a field with more than 120 characters in it, the configurator will crash during the step "Execute SSIS Package".
8/25/2008. KB 956161; Build 27191. NAV servers, NAV SDK, NAV client installer (for each country and language separate). "Platform Update rollup 956161 is available for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1"

Fixes require KB 956161 installed before
8/27/2008. KB 957267. Build 27241. NAV client/server folders exe's and dll's. "DBCS character is incorrectly rendered when shifted off the display area "
8/27/2008. KB 954722. Build 27253. "Microsoft Dynamics NAV can crash in certain situations. Some times, you will receive this error message:You cannot make any changes in the database until a transaction has been started."Or, "Error 1247 in module 19". Or, some times the NAV application will just terminate."
9/12/2008. KB 957219. Build 27368. tcpcom.dll. "Sending a document to BizTalk gives Unknown error, even if the document was sent succesfully "
9/16/2008. KB 27368. Build 27368. NAV client folder files."Backup/Restore of single company can cause - "Company Name <companyname> does not exist" error - NATIVE ONLY "
9/23/2008. KB 957733. Build 27368. NAV Client folder files ."Any table changes causes a rebuild of related SIFT views".
9/17/2008. KB 957824. Build 27398. NAV Client folder files. "Production Schedule changes are not saved in native Nav 5.0"
10/28/2008. KB 958033. Configurator.exe. "BA Configurator crashing with custom cube when trying to create SQL 2005 BA database"
10/28/2008. ATKB 957397. NAV C/side client installation MSI. "Error message when you try to install Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 on a computer that is running a localized version of Windows XP Service Pack 3: "The Windows Installer service cannot update the system file c:\WINDOWS\system32\msxml6r.dll""
11/03/2008. KB 956436. Build 26084. stx file (Latvian). "When you add certain Latvian or Polish characters to a field in Microsoft Dynamics NAV W1 5.0 SP1, all the text in the field is erased."
11/05/2008. DEKB 957397. NAV C/side client installation MSI. "Error message when you try to install Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 on a computer that is running a localized version of Windows XP Service Pack 3: "The Windows Installer service cannot update the system file c:\WINDOWS\system32\msxml6r.dll""
11/13/2008. KB 959911. Build 27831. Client folder dll's and exe's. "The XML Port do export the characters correct BUT it also adds some other characters that comes from another record"
11/13/2008. KB 959912. Build 27831. Client folder dll's and exe's. "NAV 5 handles flowfield in a different way regarding NAV4. On some step a security handler is not updated like it was in NAV4 for similar processing"
11/17/2008. KB 960141. Build 27831. Client folder dll's and exe's. "You cannot delete the sales order unless you first manually delete the record link on the Sales Order. A RunModal error occurs when a record link is used"
12/01/2008. KB 960607. Build 28007. Client folder dll's and exe's. "When saving Dynamics NAV reports with option "Save as HTML" the empty cells are being incorrectly formatted".
12/09/2008. KB 960661. Build 28028. Client folder dll's and exe's. "Vendor List Lookup dont open List".
01/16/2009. KB 962005. Build 28342. Client folder dll's and exe's. "Importing with XMLPORTS removes white spaces following the first white space"
01/27/2009. KB 963700. Build 28412. Client folder dll's and exe's. "NAV stops unexpected when using global variables of type FieldRef".
02/04/2009. KB 967158. Build 28512. Client folder dll's and exe's. "Internal Error 1355 in Module 19 while restoring Native customer database "
02/12/2009. KB 967318. Build 28563. Bus adapter and comcom dll's. "A document is truncated to 44 KBs when you send the document by using the Microsoft dynamics NAV 5.0 communication components"
02/25/2009. KB 957397. Not new build. NAV installer by country/language (msi). Error message when you try to install Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 on a computer that is running a localized version of Windows XP Service Pack 3: "The Windows Installer service cannot update the system file c:\WINDOWS\system32\msxml6r.dll"
3/3/2009. KB 968354. Build 28715. Microsoft.Navision.EmployeePortal.UserControlLibrary.dll. "Linked action updates all availble actions in Navision Employee Portal".
3/6/2009. KB 968465. Build 28798. Client folder dll's and exe's."XMLPort returns an extra error "The XML Parser setup fails" on Update 1 - KB 956161 for NAV 5.0 SP1"

3/16/2009. KB969039; BA files."Incorrect positions of Total lines in Business Analytics analysis"

3/19/2009. KB 969037. Build 28874. Client folder dll's and exe's. "When calling a list type form from report, and searching for records by typing in any of the fields of the form, application hangs indefinitely."
3/27/2009. KB 969125. Build 28874. Client folder dll's and exe's. "Restoring a NAV company backup on SQL Server 2005 with many existing companies causes various system problems"
3/27/2009. KB 959158. Build 28874. Client folder dll's and exe's. "Error when using copylinks(recordref)"
3/30/2009. KB 968679. Build 28884. Client folder dll's and exe's. "Errors with MaintainSQLIndex / MaintainSIFTIndex"
3/30/2009. KB 969452. Build 28884. Client folder dll's and exe's. "Issue with change log functionality after upgrading to 5.0"
4/14/2009. KB 969590. Build 28913. Client folder dll's and exe's. "Microsoft Dynamics NAV does not limit the general visibility for users"
4/16/2009. KB 969881. Build 28956. Client folder dll's and exe's. "Dynamics NAV crashes when connection to SQL Server is lost"
4/24/2009. KB 969777. Build 29040. NAS folder dll's & exe's. "Temp files generated at NAV Application Server startup are not deleted when service is stopped"
4/24/2009. KB 970545. Build 29048. Client folder dll's and exe's. "After making shortcuts to personalise the menu suite, some times, menu items can sidappear from the menu"
5/4/2009. KB 970913. Build 29083. Client folder dll's and exe's. " If list form has shortcut to open card form based on current record, then it shows detailed information from record only if list is not in subfrom".
5/12/2009. KB 71172. Build 29118. Client folder dll's and exe's. "If a user applies a filter on a form which is based on a large table, and the filter does not exactly match an active index, then this could give very slow response from SQL Server"
5/12/2009. KB 971170. Build 29125. Client folder dll's and exe's. "If the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Database contained certain customisations, then when re-opening a company, the NAV Client could crash."
5/18/2009. KB 970256. Build 29178. Client folder dll's and exe's. "When Dynamics NAV client is running on a 64 bit version of Windows, and an error is raised on the OnCloseForm trigger, NAV crashes"
6/2/2009. KB 971797. Build 29245. Client & NAS folders exe's & dll's. "Linked transactions are not rollbacked together with normal"
6/19/2009. KB 972431. Build 29299. Client folder dll's and exe's. "You run the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 client on a computer that is running a 64-bit operating system. However, when you use the Error function in the OnCloseForm trigger, the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 client crashes. "
7/1/2009. KB 972793. Build 29379. Csearch.dll. "The Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 client crashes when you perform a Contact Search process "
7/1/2009. KB 973133. Build 29379. Client & NAS folders exe's & dll's. "Some printers are not displayed in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0"
7/6/2009. KB 973045. Build 29410. Client & NAS folders exe's & dll's. "The Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 client crashes when you use the Error function in the OnCloseForm trigger"
7/14/2009. KB 973584. Build 29469. Client & NAS folders exe's & dll's. "Field Filter changes field value"
7/15/2009. KB 973626. Build 29469. Client folder dll's. "N/ODBC cannot handle certain characters in the WHERE clause".
7/22/2009. KB 973900. Build 29497. Client & NAS folders exe's & dll's. "Inconsistent behavior when you search for the "RecordRef" data type records in different Windows operating systems and Microsoft Dynamics NAV versions "
7/22/2009. KB 973954. Build 29512. Client & NAS folders exe's & dll's. "Sales Budget Overview Form is sometimes missing values and column header names when maximised "
8/4/2009. KB 974152. Build 29550. Client & NAS folders exe's & dll's. "The GETLASTERRORTEXT statement does not work as expected during the XMLport data validation in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 "
8/24/2009. KB 970502. Build 29608. Employee portal MSI. "Not possible to install Navision Employee Portal on a 64 bit machine ".
9/7/2009. KB 975273. Build 29715. CFront folder files. "Cfront statement DBL_UseCodeUnitsPermissions failure crashes application "
9/7/2009. KB 974798. Build 29729. Client & NAS folders exe's & dll's. "Fast forward-only cursor causing performance problem with build 29512 and later"
9/4/2009. KB 974802. Build 29736. N/ODBC folder files. "N/ODBC returns #Deleted instead of the correct data"
9/14/2009. KB 975673. Build 29736. Client folder files. "NAV crashes when too many forms are open"
9/15/2009. KB 974581. Build 26084. "Microsoft.dynamics.nav.olsync.navsyncaddin.resources.dll". "The Microsoft Dynamics NAV Sync Add-in is not displayed or unavailable in Outlook and an error message is logged in the debug log: "Could not load file or assembly" " . PS. THIS FIX IS RELEASED FOR EVERY LANGUAGES SEPARATELLY. You must doewnload specific for your language fix.
9/17/2009. KB 965226. Build 0000. RIM objects. "A hotfix is available to improve the Rapid Implementation Methodology tool for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0"
10/01/2009. KB 975913. Build 29902. Client & NAS folders exe's & dll's."Error message when you select an Automation object in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0: "The length of the text string exceeds the size of the string buffer" "
10/6/2009. KB 976254. Build 29936. ODBC files. "The records in a table are displayed as "#Name?" when you create the linked table in Microsoft Access by using the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 N/ODBC-connection data source "
10/22/2009. KB 976908. Build 30018. Client & NAS folders exe's & dll's. "Exporting to Excel for Planning Worksheet - Warning column data not exported "

PS.: There is only information about available versions/builds. If you want to get it, you need ask MS support system (with reference to requiring KB article) to send you links to download fix/update. You will receive temporary (limited to one week available) links with passwords to download fixes/updates.

NAV Developers BLOG

gediminb — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:50:00 GMT

New BLOG from NAV Escalation Engineers was published. They named it "NAV developers blog"

http://blogs.msdn.com/nav_developer

Very interesting.

Microsoft Dynamics 5.0 SP1 released

gediminb — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:49:00 GMT

More countries are released NAV 5.0 SP1.

Download from partnersource: https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/downloads/releases/MicrosoftDynamicsNAV50SP1.htm

Cumulative update package 6 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (build 3228) is released

gediminb — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:09:00 GMT

February 19 Cumulative update package 6 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (build 3228) was released.
KB 946608 can be read here.

Few bugfixes are included which could be interesting for NAV:

948445 FIX: A blocking issue occurs when you update rows in a table in SQL Server 2005
945442 FIX: You cannot cancel the query execution immediately if you open a fast forward-only cursor for the query in SQL Server 2005
945443 FIX: A query takes longer to finish in SQL Server 2005 than in SQL Server 2000 when you open a fast forward-only cursor for the query

Let's test it

Few valuable NAV links

gediminb — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:32:00 GMT

Microsoft Dynamics NAV team BLOG - valuable articles about NAV.

NAV sustained engineers BLOG - valuable information about NAV from "first hands"

MBS producs feedback - If you have any suggestions to MBS products you can write it there. Products architects monitoring it and could be will add your request to next release (requires login).

MBS products forums, downloads and etc. - if you have any questions and looking for answers, ideas want to discuss, just connect and do it for free. Must be your everyday visit address :)

Dynamics User Group - one more Dynamics products forum, BLOGS...

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 latest available version/build

gediminb — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:19:00 GMT

Current available Microsoft Dynamics 5.0 builds:

10/26/2007. KB 943858; NAV 5.0 rollback update 1. Client build 25359. Client installer requires NAV 5.0 appropriate language installed. Update must be delivered within 2 files (FixID's): Client installer and Servers (CODBC,C/FRONT,Server,NAS). Update corrects many issues regarding performance, stability. Must be installed everywhere who has problems with NAV
11/1/2007. KB 943581; build 25344. finsql.exe. "All object information is unexpectedly updated after you upgrade a database to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 by using SQL Server 2005"
11/19/2007. KB 943332; build 25533. Cfront. "CFront Data Conversion Error when assigning a BLOB"
12/5/2007. KB 943496; build 25533. Cfront. "The Setrange command in C/FRONT does not take Variant parameters anymore"
12/4/2007. KB 945339; build 25560. finsql.exe "You cannot rename a record because the new value for the field below is ''."
12/5/2007. KB 945824; build 25560. fin.exe, finsql.exe ""Record does not exist"- error message"
11/20/2007. KB 944919; build 25581. fin.exe, finsql.exe. "Error message when you click a submenu in the subform of a dialog box in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 with Update 1: "No. 5051 is not defined in the Contact Profile Answer table" or "The two fields below must be the same type""
12/20/2007. KB 945349; build 25653. fin.exe, finsql.exe, nas.exe, nassql.exe."Table locks are not released as expected in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 4.0 Service Pack 3 with platform update 940718 and in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 with platform update rollup 943858"
12/5/2007. KB 945992; build 25684. fin.exe, finsql.exe, nas.exe, nassql.exe."Microsoft Dynamics NAV stops responding when it is processing messages from Message Queuing (also known as MSMQ)"
12/14/2007. KB 946451; build 25684. NatHah.dll. "Navision does not support text strings with > 1024 characters, the BSTRConverter is the only way"
1/23/2008. KB 945879; "Outlook Integration update rollup 945879 is available for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0". Can be downloaded directly from "Partnersourse"
2/4/2008. KB 948512; build 26026. Client folder. "NAV 5.0 Reports run significantly slower then when run with NAV 4.0"
2/29/2008. KB 948170; build 26146. ndbcs.dll. "It is not possible to run NAV and Business Analytics on 2 different servers for SQL option"
2/29/2008. KB 948875; build 26146. fin.exe; finsql.exe. "When you click "Send to Excel" (Ctrl + E) or "Send to Word" (Ctrl + W), Navision does not commit any current changes before exporting data."
2/29/2008. KB 949699. ADCS SETUP.msi; setup.exe. "Error " '.', hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character. Line 2, position 1." when handling ADCS message"
4/4/2008. KB 946717. build 26363. Client folder + NAS exe's. Purchase header does not exist error when carrying out action messages on a converted database.

NAV 5.0 SP1 released - please use it!!!! Download from https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/downloads/releases/MicrosoftDynamicsNAV50SP1.htm

ps. "Bold fixes" are recomended to everyone who want to have no problems