NAV 2009 Upgrade

diptish.naskar

Hi,

I am currently into upgrade of NAV 3.6 to NAV 2009, can we directly perform the upgrade to this version or we need to move to an intermidiate version like 4.0 SP3 and then move to NAV 2009.

Do please suggest.

sri.tech23

seems that there is no best way when u upgrade from 3.7 to 2009 . from what i have read and done my rnd over the internet, the best thing would be to re-implement. when i had done an upgrade i had read a similar post, most of the replies said it is better to re implement. but then again it depends on the organisation as to what they want...so i went ahead and did it, some of the main problems faced was with the VAT Setup, bcos VAT amount fields have been removed. data migration problems are faced.

garak

Take a look into the Upgrade toolkit. You can download it from partnersource.

A full upgrade can be a hard work if there are many customized standard objects, and requires
some experience.

So, if you are an enduser or a "newbe" developer in NAV it's better for your own benefit, that u make sure that somebody (like a old senior developer) can show you that they have experience doing upgrades and you can learn a lot of. Also if you have special Add-Ons, for these add-on you need also the upgrade procedures.

But note: If you want to use the new RTC client, it's possible that you must "redesign" your customized solutions (like complex forms)

Regards

diptish.naskar

garak wrote:

So, if you are an enduser or a "newbe" developer in NAV it's better for your own benefit, that u make sure that somebody (like a old senior developer) can show you that they have experience doing upgrades and you can learn a lot of. Also if you have special Add-Ons, for these add-on you need also the upgrade procedures.

But note: If you want to use the new RTC client, it's possible that you must "redesign" your customized solutions (like complex forms)

We are not trying to move to RTC but rather to Classic client, I did had a look at the Upgrade toolkit, but that is all about data preparation and migration of the data. But, the data transformation tool is present for 3.7 and 4.0 and not for NAV 3.6.

Hence is it mandatory to move to an intermidiate stage such as 4.0 SP3 before moving to NAV 2009 from NAV 3.6

David_Singleton

diptish.naskar wrote:

... or [do] we need to move to an intermidiate version like 4.0 SP3 and then move to NAV 2009. ...

Yes

ara3n

Take a look at this thread on how save some steps from upgrading from 3.6 to 2009.


viewtopic.php?f=23&t=33728&hilit=3.6+to+2009+upgrade

diptish.naskar

David Singleton wrote:

diptish.naskar wrote:

... or [do] we need to move to an intermidiate version like 4.0 SP3 and then move to NAV 2009. ...

Yes

Well that really helped me to know about the object upgrade, but the database contains data of 10 years how to transfer the data from the 3.6 db to NAV 2009?

ara3n

The upgrade toolkit has CU that will do the data transformation. Read the manual please.

diptish.naskar

Thanks for the help

kriki

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