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Business Central with Windows 7 - System requirement

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Hi,

does anybody know if the NAV client of business central on premise is supported in a Window 7 environment? 

I presume that the web client is.

Thank you very much in advance.

Regards,

.fd

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    Stefano Demiliani Profile Picture
    37,172 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Not supported, minimum is Windows 10.

    Official requrements here:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/deployment/system-requirement-business-central

    P.S. not  supported does not mean that it doesn't work, just that Microsoft is not planning to support or test the environment on that OS.

  • Fabfab Profile Picture
    85 on at

    Thanks

  • Ghetz Profile Picture
    3,029 on at

    Although unsupported, we have tried to setup BC con Windows 7. When we try to run de client, it inmediately crashes. This is the error log:

    Application: Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.exe
    Framework Version: v4.0.30319
    Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
    Exception Info: System.DllNotFoundException
    at Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.NativeMethods.SetProcessDpiAwareness(Int32)
    at Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.WinClient.StartWinFormsClient.SetupVisuals()
    at Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.WinClient.StartWinFormsClient.PrepareCore()
    at Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.Program.Main(System.String[])

    It seems that there is a required library called shcore.dll which is not available for Windows 7. Is there any workaround?

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    Stefano Demiliani Profile Picture
    37,172 Most Valuable Professional on at

    shcore.dll is available only for Windows 81. and above. Trying to hack for having D365BC on Windows 7 is quite absurd. Windows 7 is a very very old OS and if you want to use that OS, D365BC is not for you. I think that a partnr must say that to a customer with that request.

  • Ghetz Profile Picture
    3,029 on at

    Agree, but asumed  you had a workaround as you said: "P.S. not  supported does not mean that it doesn't work,"

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