NAV 2013 R2: Powershell function to check if ServerInstance is Multitenant or not

Hi, to end the year with – here is a small tip.

I’m working on improving the Backup/Restore procedure from this blogpost .. . While doing that, I was looking for a way to see whether my current instance was actually a Multitenant-server or not. In a way, I had to be able to read this configuration in powershell:

And I found a way .. by looping the output of the Get-NAVServerConfiguration commandlet. Here is the function:

function Get-NAVIsMultiTenantServerInstance
{
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param (
        [parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)]
        [String]$ServerInstance
    )
    PROCESS
    {   
        $CurrentServerConfig = Get-NAVServerConfiguration -ServerInstance $ServerInstance
        foreach ($CurrentServerConfigKey in $CurrentServerConfig)
        {
            if ($CurrentServerConfigKey.key -eq "Multitenant")
            {
                if ($CurrentServerConfigKey.Value -eq "false")
                {
                    return $false
                }
                else
                {
                    return $true    
                }

            }
        }
    }
} 

Don’t know if you like the function-name – but look at the function.. . May be there are smarter, better, more performant, more stable ways to do it .. if so .. please share :-).

In the mean time, this is how I can use the function (for example in my Backup-function):

Enjoy!