I have started upgrading my current version of Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 to Dynamics NAV 2016, I have visited many blogs to find an exact set of procedure that I can adopt for upgradation & Migration of entire database to a new version. The one that I found says 2009 R2 should be first moved to 2013 which acts as an intermediate version. I cannot find the minimum requirement and a set of step by step process on moving from 2009 R2 to 2013. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi Jack,
The minimum requirements are the same as the versions you need to install. Or which requirement do you refer to? The step by step is found in RWN’s second link. When you upgrade to NAV 2013, then you only need to upgrade the tables to this version. Don’t worry about the rest of your customization’s.
Here are the steps to upgrade dynamics NAV 2009 R2 to NAV 2013.
Step 1 – Removing / converting the obsolete NAV objects
Microsoft 2009 R2 has Dataport & Form objects which are not supported by versions from NAV 2013 and later, this objects can be converted to supported versions by using Upgrade Toolkit & Transformation toolkit by Microsoft
Step 2 – Deleting Old Objects
Objects that are converted from Forms to Pages, Dataports to Xmlports, next should be deleted from 2009 Version to make it compatible with upper version.
Step 3 – Converting Database
Once step 1 & 2 are completed, the database of 2009 R2 version can directly be opened in upper version which should be Nav 2013 in this case.
Step 4 – Compiling objects in Nav 2013
During step 3 the inbuilt process of the upper version software will automatically alter, update all the formats supported in upper version and will provide a summary of conversion. Once Converted Compile all the objects.
Step 5 – Fixing CAL Code by Removing Form References
This is the main step for developers, once the database is converted, there could be uncompiled objects with message of unsupported form reference, This “Form::” references should be replaced by Page references, as “Form Objects” are not supported in any upper version.
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