Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise: checking extension’s status via Powershell

An interesting question pops out yesterday: with Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise, how can I programmatically check if a particular extension is installed or not?

The standard Powershell command (in the Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Apps.Management module) that gets informations about an extension in a specified Business Central Server instance is the Get-NAVAppInfo cmdlet (more info about it here).

Here I’ve executed Get-NAVAppInfo on one of my Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise instances in order to check the status of a particular app:

$ServerInstance = "MyServerInstance"
$AppName = "Intelligent Cloud Base"

Get-NAVAppInfo -ServerInstance $ServerInstance -Name $AppName

The output is as follows:

As you can see, there’s no the status of the extension (if it’s installed, synced, published or not in this tenant).

If you want to retrieve the status details about a particular extension, you need to execute the Get-NAVAppInfo cmdlet with the -TenantSpecificProperties parameter.

If you run the following Powershell command:

Get-NAVAppInfo -Tenant default -ServerInstance $ServerInstance -Name $AppName -TenantSpecificProperties

the output now is as follows:

Now you have all the extension’s status details and you can take actions accordingly.