Copy-NAVCompany
Creates a new company and copies all data from an existing company in the same tenant database.
Syntax
Copy-NAVCompany
[-Tenant <TenantId>]
[-DestinationCompanyName] <String>
[-SourceCompanyName] <String>
[-ServerInstance] <String>
[-Force]
[-ProgressAction <ActionPreference>]
[-WhatIf]
[-Confirm]
[<CommonParameters>]Description
Use the Copy-NAVCompany cmdlet to create a new company based on an existing company in the same tenant database. The company that the Copy-NAVCompany cmdlet creates includes the data from the existing company. To create an empty company, use the New-NAVCompany cmdlet.
Examples
EXAMPLE 1
Copy-NAVCompany -ServerInstance BC -Tenant CRONUS -DestinationCompanyName 'Cronus Subsidiary' -SourceCompanyName 'Cronus International Ltd.'This example creates a copy of the Cronus International Ltd. company in the database that has the tenant ID CRONUS and which is mounted against the BC server instance.
Parameters
-Confirm
Prompts you for confirmation before executing the command.
| Type: | SwitchParameter |
| Aliases: | cf |
| Position: | Named |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | False |
| Accept pipeline input: | False |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |
-DestinationCompanyName
Specifies the name of the company that you want to create. If a company with that name already exists in the Business Central database, the cmdlet fails.
| Type: | String |
| Position: | 2 |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | True |
| Accept pipeline input: | True |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |
-Force
Forces the command to run without asking for user confirmation.
| Type: | SwitchParameter |
| Position: | Named |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | False |
| Accept pipeline input: | False |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |
-ProgressAction
A common PowerShell parameter that determines how PowerShell responds to progress updates generated by a script, cmdlet, or provider. Learn more.
| Type: | ActionPreference |
| Aliases: | proga |
| Position: | Named |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | False |
| Accept pipeline input: | False |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |
-ServerInstance
Specifies the name of a Business Central Server instance, for example, BC or myinstance. You can specify either the full name of an instance, such as MicrosoftDynamicsNavServer$myinstance or the short name such as myinstance.
| Type: | String |
| Position: | 0 |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | True |
| Accept pipeline input: | True |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |
-SourceCompanyName
Specifies the name of the company that you want to copy.
| Type: | String |
| Position: | 1 |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | True |
| Accept pipeline input: | True |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |
-Tenant
Specifies the ID of the tenant that the company is stored in, such as Tenant1. This parameter is required unless the specified service instance is not configured to run multiple tenants.
| Type: | TenantId |
| Aliases: | Id |
| Position: | Named |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | False |
| Accept pipeline input: | True |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |
-WhatIf
Describes what would happen if you executed the command without actually executing the command.
| Type: | SwitchParameter |
| Aliases: | wi |
| Position: | Named |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | False |
| Accept pipeline input: | False |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |