What do-do when the setup.exe doesn’t start in Dynamics NAV 2009
The reason that setup.exe doesn’t start can be many. But I will try to give you ha checklist that you can work through if you end up in this situation.
1. Ensure that the user account running setup.exe have administrator rights.
2. Try the DVD/download one another computer. If this work you have eliminated that it’s any wrong on the installation media.
3. Start the task manager and check if any setup.exe is running. Sometimes under very special circumstances the setup.exe crash and will prevent any other attempt to start it again by staying running. If you find any setup.exe process kill them. And try to run the setup.exe again.
4. Start the task manager and check if any msiexec.exe is running. This may happen when a windows update is running or that another installation process is running or have crashed. The best solution in this case is to restart the machine and check again and try to run the setup.exe again. In most cases the msiexec.exe process will be gone.
5. If msiexe.exe are still there it probably mean that windows installer are running something. You can on your own risk try to kill all of those processes. The risk you take here is that you may end up with something half installed from windows update or other source. So it’s recommended to run windows update after this to ensure its ok.
How to install more than one Dynamics NAV 2009 Demo Database alternative 2
Earlier I did describe how to duplicate an installed and existing database in post “How to install more than one Dynamics NAV 2009 Demo Database”. This time I will attached the DB directly from DVD.
The steps is as follow
1. Create the directory where you would like to have the new database.
2. Copy the database from DVDSQLDemoDatabasePFilesMicrosoft Dynamics NAV60Database Demo Database NAV (6-0)_Data.mdf to the new directory.
3. Run the following command in SQL manager studio and replace the @physname path with the new created on and set @dbname to the database name you would like to use.
sp_attach_single_file_db @dbname= ‘new_Demo Database NAV (6-0)’, @physname= ‘C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Dynamics NAV60Database – CopyDemo Database NAV (6-0)_Data.mdf’
You need to ensure that the SQL server user have correct permissions to ‘C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Dynamics NAV60Database – Copy’ or where you put the db files. I’m using ‘NETWORK SERVICE” as the SQL server user account, the NAV will use this account by default when doing demo installation.
To set permission
1. Open properties for the directory.
2. Click security tab
3. Click advance
4. Click edit
5. If the SQL server user is not present press add and pick the user else select the SQL server user and click edit
6. Change the permission so that the following permission is checked
a. Read attributes
b. Read extended attributes
c. Create files / write data
d. Create folders / append data
e. Write attributes
f. Write extended attributes
g. Delete subfolders and files
h. Delete
7. Click OK
8. Click Ok
9. Click OK
10. Click OK
Multiple Service Tiers – NAV 2009 SP1
Freddy have update his blog about how to run multiple service tiers in NAV 2009 SP1. One of the new things in SP1 is that you can use named instance of SQL server. On the blog post he has some nice bat script that can set everything up.
The post can be found here http://blogs.msdn.com/freddyk/archive/2009/08/05/multiple-service-tiers-sp1.aspx
Online resource for Dynamic NAV
Found this pages today
Dynamics book online.
A wiki with a lot of information about dynamics NAV
http://wiki.dynamicsbook.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Developer and IT Pro Help
The Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Developer and IT Pro Help provides information about developing, installing, and managing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009. The latest help includes new content that describes new functionality in Microsoft Dynamics 2009 SP1. If you are not yet running SP1, a prior version of the help, which does not include Microsoft NAV 2009 SP1 functionality, is also available.
http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?familyid=EEC997BE-50C8-4D27-8BF2-FA93C9AC282A&displaylang=en