Best Practices Analyzer for Dynamics NAV 2009 & NAV 2009 R2

The Best Practices Analyzer for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1 & Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 is a tool for identifying issues that can prevent you from successfully deploying a three-tier environment of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1 & Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2.

Three-tier environment deployments can be challenging because they often require additional domain administration tasks. The Best Practices Analyzer for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1 & Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 queries various sources and produces reports that can help you diagnose issues with your deployment.

The Best Practices Analyzer for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1 R2 performs the following verifications:

• Verifies that an appropriate version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server is installed. Only Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1 is supported.
• Verifies Microsoft Dynamics NAV connection strings.
• Verifies that the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server service, the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Web services service, and the SQL Server service, which are required for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, are running.
• Checks database permissions to make sure that the required resources can connect to the database.
• Verifies that the necessary service principal names (SPN) have been created and correctly configured on the account that is running the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server service.
• Verifies that constrained delegation has been configured.
• In addition, for Microsoft Dynamics 2009 R2 it can verify other instances than the default instance installed

Note: Before you run the Best Practices Analyzer, see the following topics in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Developer and IT Pro Documentation section of the MSDN Library:

• Walkthrough: Installing the Three Tiers on Three Computers
• How To: Set Up Delegation