Introduction
With PowerShell, Windows system administrators received a comprehensive scripting environment with a broad set of tools for administering any application in the corporate domain and integrating all software into a common infrastructure.
The latest release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV also supports PowerShell and comes with numerous cmdlets to aid both developers and system administrators in their daily tasks. All NAV cmdlets are collected in two modules, one of them incorporating development tools, and the second containing the administration cmdlets.
The Administration module is loaded into the PowerShell environment when you run the NAV 2016 Administration Shell from the Start menu. NAV 2016 Development Shell loads the development module.
After starting one of the shells, you can get the list of commands available in the corresponding module by running the command Get-Command *NAV*
Help topics on each command can be retrieved with a standard PowerShell cmdlet Get-Help <...
