Using Powershell - two 2013/2015 instances with diff. builds

Cyberghost

Hi


I've been looking into using Powershell to set up our customers systems, using the Example-1VM etc. examples.





Ideally, I want to set up any customer with a live and a test system. These would both have their own instances and importantly, the instances would be run from a different folder to each other. Initially, the instances would be the same build but as CU's are released, different builds would be able to be tested before going into the live setup.


I can see how to set up another instance using Powershell, but cannot work out how to create another instance based on a different Service folder. Does anyone know of a way of doing this and hopefully have an example?


Thanks in advance,


Chris

vremeni4

Hi,

Interesting idea.
I would use combination of PowerShell and batch files.
For example from PowerShell you can call this batch command to create a NAV Instance in a particular folder.

SC CREATE "MicrosoftDynamicsNAV$NavFrCronus7" binpath= "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\70\Service CronusFR\Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Server.exe" DisplayName= "Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server NAV_FR_CRONUS"

in powershell

$CMD = 'SC CREATE'
$arg1 = 'MicrosoftDynamicsNAV$NavFrCronus7'
$arg2 = 'binpath= "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\70\Service CronusFR\Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Server.exe"'
$arg3 = 'DisplayName= "Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server NAV_FR_CRONUS'
 
& $CMD $arg1 $arg2 $arg3

This will create the instance after that you can use standard NAV powershell commandlets to do what you want.

I hope this helps.
Thanks.

Cyberghost

Thanks