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AL Language

Dynamics NAV 2013 & Expired Cronus License

We found an interesting problem – we were not able to run the development environment for Dynamics NAV 2013. Whenever we tried to run the development client, we got the following error message: “Your program license has expired” and the development client has closed (and we were not able to change the license). As you

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Telemetry

Using Power Automate for telemetry alerts

Using Power Automate for telemetry alerts Note: This flow is created from this template: App Insights Monitoring Alert Email | Microsoft Power Automate; however, I made a few changes to the structure/flow to support our requirements better. Telemetry (Application Insights) is a great tool to see what is happening. However, both KQL queries and Telemetry

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Events

Directions EMEA 2023 – D365 Sales Integration

Directions 4 Partners EMEA 2023 is over. It was an amazing event and I will summarize my thoughts in the upcoming days and weeks and create probably 1 or 2 blog posts about the most interesting changes and sessions. Today, I also had our session with Marko Totovic about D365 Sales Integration. Unfortunately, we could

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Telemetry

Setting up telemetry for BC environments (VAR)

Setting up telemetry for BC environments (VAR) A few weeks back, I published a blog post about controlling the cost of telemetry using the transformation rules. However, I found (thanks to my colleagues from Fusion5) that I don’t have any blog posts about setting up the telemetry. If you know how to configure telemetry and/or

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AL Language

Time, DateTime, Production Orders and Time Zones – not what I expected

I decided to write this post to describe a problem we are dealing with when we are working with production orders through API or when there are users working in different time zones. Let’s start with a quick introduction. Business Central has two datatypes that can store times – Time and DateTime. What is the

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AL Language

Indirect Dependencies and Access Modifiers

Last week, there was a discussion on Yammer on how to get values from the “Sent Email” record when all fields are marked as Internal. I was surprised that many people do not know what can/can’t access modifiers (such as local, protected, or internal) be used for. I thought that this was widely known information,

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Events

See you @ Directions EMEA 2023 in Lyon!

I am so excited that my session Dynamics 365 Sales Integration Deep Dive has been accepted for Directions 2023! During the 105-minute-long session, I and Microsoft MVP Marko Totovic will show everything you should know about OOTB integration between Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales (CRM) and how to customize the integration to suit any needs!

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CRM Integration

CRM Integration how to: Customize Status/State for CRM Invoice

CRM Integration how to: Customize Status/State for CRM Invoice See all articles in CRM Integration | MSDyn365 Business Central – Tom Kapitan (kepty.cz) category to get max from the OOTB and custom integration. I have asked Microsoft to extend the base app to allow partners to customize CRM Invoice statuses. And new publishers are already available in

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Data

Use Transformation Rules to lower the costs of BC Telemetry

Telemetry is one of the most important tools for any partner to see what’s happening in Business Central. However, unmanaged telemetry (or analytics) workspace costs could be huge. To lower the cost, you just need to spend some time configuring relevant signals you want to use and signals that should be ignored/suppressed. Important update 15.10.2023

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CRM Integration

CRM Integration: Add a custom field to the existing CRM table

In the past weeks, I got a few questions about Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and Business Central Integration. I did some integration projects in past, but I also have experience with a heavily customized solution from this year. As a lot of questions were about how to extend the integration (and I agree that it’s

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