Course 8366: One day; Instructor-led

Audience

The course is designed for employees of Microsoft Business Solutions Partners who will work with Business Notification. Target trainees can be divided into three groups: MBS partner consultants, MBS partner customization developers, and MBS partner salespeople.

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At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will have obtained:

•	An overview of Business Notification
•	Ability to set up and Run Business Notification in Microsoft Navision
•	Working practice with Business Notification Manager
•	Ability to set up Business Notification Manager
•	Apply the concept of End-User Subscription
•	Ability to install and administer Business Notification
•	Knowledge about Business Notification Advanced – Development and Customization

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Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

Knowledge of the “Event” feature for the XML ports

SQL Server knowledge

Knowledge of C/AL code

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Microsoft Certification exams

No Microsoft Certification exams are associated with this course currently.

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Course Materials

•	The student kit includes a comprehensive workbook

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Course Outline

Module 1: Overview of Business Notification

This module concentrates on the purpose of Business Notification, the way it works, and the basic concepts behind the solution.

Lessons

•	Identify the business needs that Business Notification provides a solution for.
•	Describe the way the solution works.
•	Explain the benefits of Business Notification.
•	Define the main concepts of the solution.
•	Give examples of the concepts.
•	Tell the difference between the concepts.

Module 2: Setting Up and Running Business Notification in Microsoft Navision

This module concentrates on the Microsoft Navision side of the Business Notification process. The chapter tells you where business notifications come from, how to set up the Microsoft Navision part of Business Notification, how to run a query to generate notifications, and how to send all or some of the found notifications to Business Notification Manager. The chapter also includes information about what Microsoft Navision granules you will need to run Business Notification.

Lessons

•	Describe the Microsoft Navision side of the Business Notification process.
•	Set up Business Notification in Microsoft Navision.
•	Create notification batches.
•	Assign report IDs to notifications.
•	Work with notification worksheets.
•	Name Microsoft Navision granules necessary to work with Business Notification according to different scenarios.

Lab 1: Setting Up and Running Business Notification in Microsoft Navision

•	Creating Notification Batch
•	Notifying about upcoming deliveries

After completing this module, students will be able to describe the Microsoft Navision side of the Business Notification process. This includes knowing how to:

•	Set up Business Notification in Microsoft Navision.
•	Create notification batches.
•	Assign report IDs to notifications.
•	Work with notification worksheets.
•	Name Microsoft Navision granules necessary to work with Business Notification according to different scenarios.

Module 3: Working with Business Notification Manager

This module explains how Business Notification Manager works, how to set it up, and how to design and send notifications to your recipients.

Lessons

•	Overview of Business Notification Manager.
•	Creating a new scheme
•	Setup and Configuration of notification schemes
•	Deleting a scheme
•	Opening a scheme
•	Starting and stopping completed schemes
•	Importing a scheme
•	Exporting a scheme
•	Viewing the history
•	Alerts

Lab 1: Working with Business Notification Manager

•	Creating notification schemes
•	Modifying an existing scheme

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•	Explain the purpose of Business Notification Manager and Business Notification Designer.
•	Work with schemes in Business Notification Manager.
•	Create new and change existing schemes in Business Notification Designer.
•	Configure and set up the event, the message, the condition filters, and the recipients for a scheme.

Module 4: Setting up Business Notification Manager

This module describes how to connect to the server containing supplementary Business Notification files, how to manage templates in Business Notification Manager and how to give permissions to users. It also addresses potential security problems related to the business notification process.

This section is intended for power users who will set up the Business Notification Manager, manage templates, and manage user permissions.

Lessons

•	Connecting to server
•	Managing templates
•	Managing permissions with active directory
•	Security
•	Alerts

Lab 1: Setting up Business Notification Manager

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•	Connect to the server containing supplementary Business Notification files.
•	Work with templates in Business Notification Manager.
•	Configure permissions for sending Business Entity information.
•	Administrate the security of information in Business Notification Manager.

Module 5: End user subscription

This module concentrates on the Business Notification end-user subscription.

It is intended for company employees (internal recipients) who need to subscribe to notifications in order to receive them.

Lessons

•	The purpose and overview of the end user subscription
•	Location of the Web application
•	Accessing the Web application and viewing the list of subscriptions
•	End-user subscription access rights
•	Subscribing to and unsubscribing from notifications
•	Receiving messages
•	Tracking sent e-mails

Lab 1: End user subscription

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•	Describe the purpose of the end-user subscription.
•	Define access rights to the subscription application.
•	View the list of subscriptions.
•	Subscribe to and unsubscribe from notifications.

Module 6: Installation and administration of Business Notification

This module concentrates on design, installation, and administration of Business Notification.

It is intended for partners who will install Business Notification at the customer’s site and system administrators who will administer the solution.

Lessons

•	Design of Business Notification
•	Business Notification Installation

Lab 1: Installation and administration of Business Notification

•	Business Notification Installation

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•	Describe the design of Business Notification, and define the purpose of its main components.
•	Install the prerequisite products and perform the prerequisite configuration necessary for Business Notification to work.
•	Install and configure Business Notification.
•	Administer Business Notification, that is, change passwords, run backups, and change settings of configuration files.

Module 7: Business Notification advanced – development and customization

This module describes a number of development and customization details, such as how to modify Microsoft Navision objects, create XML ports, and specify events.

This section is intended for developers who will modify Microsoft Navision objects, specify events, manage templates, and manage user permissions.

Lessons

•	Generating notifications in Microsoft Navision
•	Creating templates

Lab 1: Business Notification advanced – development and customization

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After completing this module, students will be able to:

•	Create XML ports, and specify events for time-based and field change-based notifications.
•	Modify XML ports.
•	Create and configure templates.

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Business Notification - Microsoft Navision

Course 8366: One day; Instructor-led

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Audience

At Course Completion

Prerequisites

Microsoft Certification exams

Course Materials

Course Outline