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
3 min readThe cumulative update 2024/03 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (2022 wave 2, 2023 wave 1 and 2023 wave 2) on-premises has just been released.
1 min readIn 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
3 min readWith 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
2 min readBC 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
8 min readValidate 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
3 min readSurprisingly, 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
3 min readUsing 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
2 min readSetting 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
3 min readI 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
5 min readLast 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,
3 min readI 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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