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I’m back – and it’s going to be a busy few months!

I’m back – and it’s going to be a busy few months! It’s been almost two years since my last post. Honestly? I lost interest for a while. AI-generated content flooded every search result and blog feed, reader numbers dropped, and writing for an audience increasingly just asking ChatGPT felt pointless. I wasn’t going to

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Events

See you in Bangkok & Portoroz!

Not one, but two sessions at two Dynamics 365 conferences, spanning 8500 kilometres apart, all within two weeks in May! This promises to be an incredibly exciting month filled with knowledge-sharing and networking! Can’t wait to see everyone in Bangkok at Directions for Partners and a week (and a few days) later in Portoroz at DynamicsMinds.

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AL Language

My Contributions to BC2024 wave 1 (D365 Sales/CE related)

As we are close to another major release, I will try to share some insights into upcoming changes. I do not want to repeat other authors and blog posts, as I think there are already enough posts about the most visible changes. Instead, I will describe the changes I made through the Business Central contribution

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AL Language

Replace NoSeriesManagement with the new BC Foundation No. Series app (1/2)

In BC 2024 wave 1, Microsoft will introduce a new Business Central Foundation Layer with the first app – redesigned No. Series. A few weeks back, Microsoft merged their changes into the BCApps repository (see the pull request here: Introducing new Business Foundation layer – No. Series by AndreasMoth · Pull Request #319 · microsoft/BCApps

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Administration

New concurrency limits for JQ in 23.3

With release 23.3, Microsoft completed the global rollout of concurrency JQ limit changes first introduced last year! Instead of a per-environment limit, Microsoft has shifted the focus to users (or Microsoft Entra Apps). Now, you can create more scheduled tasks per user, dynamically scaling your workload. The more users you have, the more tasks you can simultaneously

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Events

See you in Portoroz! I am a speaker at DynamicsMinds 2024!

I’m excited to announce that one of my session was accepted for DynamicsMinds 2024 in Portoroz, Slovenia! Do you want to see other sessions? Check the official portal – https://www.dynamicsminds.com/sessions/ Business Central Open-Source Contributions: The quickest way how to see your name during Microsoft BC Keynotes In this session, we will explore the open-source programs

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AL Language

BC Open Source? How to start?

BC Open Source? How to start? One of the most exciting news introduced last month in Lyon during Directions EMEA 2023 was the changes to the open-source initiative. This means that you can now contribute to the source code of the Base app and the System app, which are now based on the main development

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AL Language

Validate a FlowField Field. Wait? What?

Validate a FlowField Field. Wait? What? There are not many things in the AL Language that surprised me. However, last week, I found one such thing – I reviewed customizations made by another partner and had to analyze the OOTB code of the Demand Forecast matrix. I run a debugger and end up in the

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AL Language

Synchronizing countries from D365 Sales to D365 Business Central

Surprisingly, the out-of-the-box integration between Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central does not synchronize countries. Why? Because it could be hard to maintain this synchronization as, by default, the country field in D365 Sales is just a plain text field (and, as you know, in Business Central, we have a standalone

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