Anyone successfully integrated Navision 5.0 with Outlook?

summer718
summer718 Member Posts: 3
edited 2009-04-27 in NAV/Navision Classic Client
I have been tasked to do research on integrating Navision 5.0 with Outlook. I have experienced numerous errors and currently battle-ing through them. I did a bunch of research and have NEVER come accross a post where someone said they had a successful integration of Nav 5.0 and Outlook (I have read probably near 30-40 posts). I was just wondering, are there anyone here who has had a succesfull implementation of Nav 5.0 and Outlook and how is it working now?

I also heard that NAS becomes REAL slow if too many clients try to access it, e.g. if more than 3 or 4 outlook is trying to sync, it will become really slow, is this true?

And if you have had a succesful implementation, how did you set up the NAS? As in, where did you install NAS and what log on information did you input?
Example: NAS has a log on of Administrator on a server
User on work station has outlook add-in installed, how does the system know that a NAS is running on a server on the same network but a different login?

Anyhow comments and help are greatly appearciated!!! ](*,)

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  • matttrax
    matttrax Member Posts: 2,309
    I've never integrated with Outlook, but I can help with the NAS part...a little :).

    Your NAS should be setup on a different box and be running under its own login name for security purposes. When you set it up you tell it what server and database to connect to. When the NAS service starts it connects to that database. If you have developer access take a look at Codeunit 1 and you should be able to find it.

    For Outlook synch, I believe this starts Codeunit 448, Job Queue dispatcher. It creates a timer variable and executes at specific intervals.

    Hope that's a start.
    Matt Traxinger - ArcherPoint
  • canadian_bacon
    canadian_bacon Member Posts: 91
    I've gotten it to work. However, it is very quirky and there are a lot of things that have to be "adjusted".

    All NAS does is run the job queue so the client doesn't have to know where it is running from.

    These are the things which you will have to configure/install:
    - NAS
    - Outlook Client
    - Outlook Synch Management settings in Nav
    - Job Queue
    - SQL Server (remote timeouts will probably have to be adjusted)
    - C/Front
  • summer718
    summer718 Member Posts: 3
    thanks for the feedback, i got it to work a while back..but it is very quirky..and there are just a lot of errors

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