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A Question is rising lately, Did Microsoft forget Upgrade Toolkit of NAV 7 and 7.1 in the new CUs in NAV 2017 and NAV 2018?
The Answer is: No we did not :)
We wanted to highlight some changes we are having lately with our upgrade toolkits, as many of you already saw that the newer CUs from all the versions (2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018) do no longer have upgrade toolkits for NAV 2013 and NAV 2013 R2:
For example, in NAV 2018 CU1 DVD it looked like this:
While in NAV 2018 CU3 DVD it looks like this:
The notice is the upgrade toolkits from NAV 2013 and NAV 2013 R2 are not there starting from CU3, what does this mean and why?
This first means, that whenever you want to upgrade to NAV 2018 from NAV 2013 or NAV 2013 R2 you will need to plan the upgrade to NAV 2018 CU2 specifically, and this is exactly what we documented here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-nav/upgrading-to-microsoft-dynamics-nav
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Full upgrade from one of the following versions:
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. Upgrade the Application Code |
Nevertheless, CU2 becomes a check point for all the other older versions as well, as you will mostly decide to do a full upgrade to NAV 2013 first, and then to a higher NAV version, unless you decide to do the upgrade from NAV 2009 to NAV 2015 directly (with the Unicode technical step in NAV 2013 anyway) but that’s a different story.
The next question would be, can I simply import the Upgrade toolkit of let’s say NAV 2013 from CU2 while I’m doing the upgrade to (for example) CU 4 directly? Would this work.
Actually, it would theoretically work, but still unsupported, and we have seen live examples showing us platform/ Data issues after the upgrade finishes, in this case the only solution would be to revert to a backup before upgrading, do the upgrading to CU2 as explained, and then another quick technical upgrade to CU4 or any later one of your choice, otherwise your environment is not supported.
here we would like to highlight again, please take the upgrade toolkit related to the right CU you are upgrading to and do not mix and match the toolkits with different CUs.
Now we need to explain, why are we doing this?
The answer is, the mentioned versions became out of mainstream support last January as per the following announcement:
And as these versions became out of mainstream support, there will be no changes in the objects, as no more escalations are to be accepted and the source code stays the same including the toolkit, hence the toolkit would not change.
This reflects on the fact that in the product DVD there will be no more changes from February CU in so forth related to Upgrade Toolkit. Removing it from the Product DVD would maintain the CU generation and subsequent customer download easier and faster.
Thanks,
Rahman
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