Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration

This book is a tutorial guide that illustrates the steps needed to install, configure, deploy, and administer Dynamics NAV. It shows you how to get started with Dynamics NAV and then gradually explains other admin tasks such as backing up and performance tuning, using practical examples. If you want to get started in administering Dynamics NAV, this book is for you. Readers do not need any previous experience with Dynamics NAV.

Amit Sachdev works as a Technology Advisor for Dynamics products and the lead for SureStep methodology programs at Microsoft Canada. He is responsible for "Dynamics" product awareness, strategic engagement with Microsoft partners, building successful Dynamics practices, and ensuring use of best principles for partners around delivery and implementation methodologies. Amit has diverse professional experience and in the past has worked in various capacities including advisory consulting, management, designing and implementing business solutions in many countries, spanning across various industries and market segments. He holds an Engineering degree in Electronics, various awards and certifications in both Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies. Apart from his eminence as a seasoned "Dynamics" professional, Amit has also been instrumental in providing strategic direction to various start-ups and sits on the board and advisory panels of various non IT and IT related companies. Sharan Oberoi is a seasoned Microsoft Dynamics professional and has more than 11 years of experience working as an architect, consultant, and business leader for Microsoft Dynamics products. He works for Tectura in an advisory role. He has helped various organizations with large scale, global, successful implementations of Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Sharan has also built and grown high performing, culturally diversified, and geographically dispersed consulting teams. At the start of his Microsoft Dynamics career, Sharan was an instrumental startup team member for Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) in India. He led a small team to localize and release Microsoft Dynamics NAV in India and subsequently evangelize Microsoft Dynamics NAV across the newly established partner channel in India. Sharan worked as a consultant for a few US end clients before moving to New Zealand. He gained his big four consulting experience while working for Ernst & Young in New Zealand for a few years. In 2007, he moved to Vancouver, Canada with his family and started working as a team leader for Tectura. Whilst at Tectura, Sharan has handled diversified roles and has been involved in various product teams and global clients, with, complex, high-risk product implementations and application roll outs. Having worked for organizations like Tectura, Ernst & Young, and Navision (now Microsoft) Sharan has worked in a dozen or more countries, touching almost every continent. He has worked with clients from diversified industries including Ports, Financial services, Agri businesses, Energy and Power Generation, Shipping, and more.