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Administration
Environments, permissions, the admin center, cloud migration and upgrades.
Security Groups - the new way of controlling access to Business Central
Hello readers, If you really were burning to find and read one more piece of teaching on permissions and access to BC, your search can end :) Overview of…
Unlocking the Potential of Composing Permission Sets
With Business Central 2023 Wave 1, Microsoft introduced a new way of composing permission sets. Find out more in my video ...
Unlocking the new Inherent Permissions in Business Central
With version Business Central 2023 wave 1, Microsoft has implemented a few changes around permissions. If you are a business user or functional consultant…
The provided environment name is already reserved. Please try using a different environment name.
A lot of us, Business Central professionals, have noticed recent changes to the Business Central Admin Center. The changes consist of a new action and a new…
Send Business Central environment notifications to Teams
Most professionals working with BC online are receiving notifications of environment changes via email. But did you know that is possible to receive Business…
BC20 in SaaS (preview)
Hello readers, This morning I noticed we can create a sandbox with Business Central 2020 in Preview. In your BC admin center, click on +New action to create a…
Getting started with Snapshot Debugging in Business Central
Happy new year, readers! Time for another Feynman technique exercise. Today I tried for the first time (Duh Silviu .... it's been out there for at least a…
Cloud migration changes with BC19 wave 2
This post is about Cloud Migration changes in BC 19 wave 2. If you want to read more about the original Cloud Migration have a llook at my previous blog post…
5 new features Business Central admins need to know
Microsoft keeps adding new features to all facets of Business Central, including the admin center. In this blog post I will go over 5 changes to Business…
"Field Selection" codeunit - how I select and record the ID of a field in Business Central
Hello readers! Recently I have been working on a customization for a customer with the goal of changing the out of the box Positive Pay export for a Bank…
So I chose Business Central ... But am I losing my Dynamics GP data?
There is also the GP migration tool. More about it here. Using this tool ensures the most important entities, master data and open transactions, will make it into BC. But what if a GP end-user wants additional GP data in BC? #Dyn365bc #dynamicsGP
Export Business Central online entities to Azure storage blob container
As most probably know, it is not possible to access the file system while in Business Central cloud environment. For example, in Dynamics NAV, we could have a…
Copy files from Azure Blob Storage to File System (using Power Automate)
I found an older post on community.dynamics.com in which someone was asking for ways to automatically drop data extracts originated in BC SaaS into a local…
Azure Storage Table and its API
One way to make available data from Business Central to different parties and users is to leverage Azure Storage. Customers will need to have an Azure Portal…
To use or not to use SelectLatestVersion()
When using web services or API exposed entities you might find useful to request the application service to grab the latest version of the underlying data. The…
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Problem A bit of context here … I was trying to create an environment in which to write an extension around workflows and notifications. I needed 2 users, one…