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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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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

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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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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Administration

Business Central Admin Center, part 7 (Reported Outages, Operations, Capacity)

This is the sixth part of my series about the Business Central Admin Center. Previous parts: Left menu: Reported Outages Overview of reported outages confirmed by Microsoft. Left menu: Operations Environment Operations contains information about all updates on the environment level. This includes environment rename, deletion, update, extension update or configuration update. The status provides

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Administration

Business Central Admin Center, part 5 (Application Insights, Security Groups, Access with Microsoft 365 Licenses)

This is the fifth part of my series about the Business Central Admin Center. Previous parts: Next parts: Environments details: Application Insights Connection String Application Insights aka Business Central Telemetry. Something you should already be familiar with. And if you are not still using telemetry, check the official Microsoft documentation – Enable Sending Telemetry to

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AL Language

Clean up your copied environments

One of the most important things every developer should handle is to clean up the environment when the environment (or a company) is copied. Especially if the environment is managed directly by a client and they can create new copies anytime. Similarly, for copied companies. How to do this? It’s really easy. Microsoft is already

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Administration

Business Central Admin Center, part 4 (Copy, Restore, Rename, Delete)

This is the fourth part of my series about the Business Central Admin Center. Previous parts: Next parts: Top menu: Copy The action that I use the most often. Copy allows you to create a new environment from the existing one – for example, new sandbox from your production environment. It is really simple –

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Administration

Business Central Admin Center, part 3 (Update Settings)

This is the third part of my series about the Business Central Admin Center. Previous parts: Next parts: The previous article described “Apps”, “Sessions”, “Database”, and “Support” actions. In this episode, I will look at the “Update Settings” actions available in the Business Central Admin Center on the environment details page. Environment details Let’s look

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Administration

Business Central Admin Center, part 2 (Database, Support)

This is the second part of my series about the Business Central Admin Center. Previous parts: Next parts: The previous article described “Apps” and “Sessions” actions. In this episode, I will look at other actions available in the Business Central Admin Center on the environment details page. Top menu: Database -> Create database export “Create

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