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Cloud Migration Business Central 20

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//Hi All,
I am trying to migrate BC 20 demo DB  On prem to BC Online 23.
Getting very strange error down the way

The server timed out while attempting to connect to the specified SQL server.

The call to prepare servers failed. Run id='6e3e7c6d-ffd1-4efd-95c8-9650fd500827', Name='msasia9250t42318365_BCLast_Preparation',
 
ErrorMessage='Operation on target GetSourceBCVersion failed: Activity timed out'
 
 
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    Hi,
     
    Check this.
     
    Run Get-navapplication to check what the version is.
     
    In your upgrade step there is a step to set-navapplication to set the right version. You might have missed it during the upgrade to BC 20.
     
    Regards,
    Saurav Dhyani

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