Administering NAV services with PowerShell

Administering NAV services becomes much easier with PowerShell, especially when the corporate infrastructure requires a large number of services running simultaneously. A simple task of restarting services may consume a lot of time when you need to do it for each service separately in the UI.

This is where PowerShell comes to aid; operations on NAV services can be automated and performed on many server instances in one cmdlet call.

How to do it...

This recipe presents PowerShell cmdlets to create and remove a NAV service, and control the state of installed services.

1. Run the NAV 2016 Administrator Shell with administrator credentials.
2. Create a NAV server instance. The name of the new instance is NavShellTest, and it will use the database Demo Database NAV (9-0):

   New-NAVServerInstance `
   -ServerInstance "NAVShellTest" `
   -DatabaseServer localhost `
   -DatabaseName "Demo Database NAV (9-0)" `
   -ManagementServicesPort 7065 -ClientServicesPort...