Anywhere Mobility Studio Documentation

Environment Prerequisites Business Central to run the Framework

For Business Central the following features should be enabled to allow the Anywhere Portal to communicate with the Anywhere Framework

Feature Description
API Services License data is sent to the Portal via an API
SOAP Services The main communication channel for sessions and activities

Additional features may be required to be enabled to succesfully install the product. These are determined by the BIS version. Prerequisites for that product can be found on its respective pages.

Environment Prerequisites to deploy the Portal

The Portal can be deployed on 2 environments, either On Premise or in a Cloud environment The Azure environment steps are explained. Different Cloud providers can be used at your own risk.

Azure Environment

An Azure Environment with App Services enabled will suffice to deploy the Portal. See Azure Deployment to learn more about this.

On Premise Web Server

The following table illustrates the installation prerequisites.

Component Requirements

Operating System

A supported Windows version

Windows Installer

Version 3.1 or higher

Microsoft .NET Framework support. .NET Core is not supported

.NET framework version 4 or higher

MSXML

Version 4.0 or higher

Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Service)

Version 6.0 or higher

Required components when using IIS version 6.0:
 Application Server
      Internet Information Services (IIS)
           Common Files
           Internet Information Services Manager
           World Wide Web Service

Required components when using IIS version 7.0/8.0 or higher:
  Internet Information Services
       Web Management Tools
       World Wide Web Service
             Application Development Features
                  .NET Extensibility
                  ASP .NET
             Common Http Features
                  Static Content
             Security
       IIS 6 Management Compatibility
            IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility
            IIS 6 WMI Compatibility
            IIS 6 Scripting Tools
            IIS 6 Management Console

Microsoft Dynamics Business Central

Supported versions on the Microsoft Lifecycle