I saw many requests on forums in the last days related to one of the most noisy topic when working with Extensions in Dynamics 365 Business Central (SaaS version): how to handle breaking schema changes. The tipical scenario is the following: You create an extension (version 1.0) that contains a custom table with some fields and some keys and publish it. All is ok. Then, you create a new version of the same extension (2.0) where you change some field data types (or some field properties) or you change some table’s keys. You publish the new 2.0 version and… ERROR: “ Unsupported table…

As you already know, Microsoft Dynamics ERP’s family is having a big evolution this year.  Microsoft Dynamics NAV  is now the past, while the future is called  Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central . Partners (and developers in particular) must be prepared for the change and in my opinion also all the management team of a classical NAV partner should know the change and shift their mind. I’ve written a new article for Simplanova about this topic and I hope it could be a source of discussions in the upcoming Directions EMEA. I think that NAV/D365BC is the only software app in the planet…

Many months ago I wrote a series of posts related to best practices to remember when deploying Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise as IaaS with Azure. In particular: Best practices when installing SQL Server on an Azure VM Best practices when deploying NAV (or Dynamics 365 Business Central) on Azure VMs I’ve received lots of feedbacks and interests related to these posts and many of you were so kind to share with me their experiences. When talking about installing Dynamics NAV or Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365BC) on Azure, I’ve said in…

If you are familiar with the user interface features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central in the cloud and now you have installed Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise , I think that you (or your consultants and/or users) could have discovered a difference in the on-premise web client compared to the SaaS version: why I don’t have the Personalize feature but only the Design one? I’ve talked in the past about these features for the D365BC SaaS version , but now if you open the web client in the on-premise version this is the situation you have: Is the in-client personalization…

In a real-world Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementations, is quite common to see integrations with third-party external applications. These integrations are normally based on three different technologies: Text file integrations (XMLPort) SQL integrations (direct access to SQL tables) Web Services or APIs integrations With Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise you have the same types of choice for handling your integrations with external applications and you can easily move all of them from NAV to D365BC on-premise without too much effort. All of them except point 2 if you…

This seems to be a problem for many partners and developers that have start working with Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise in these days and this is not actually well documented in my opinion. I think that you already know that when developing a page with the AL language extension for Dynamics 365 Business Central in the cloud, you need to set ApplicationArea and UsageCategory  properties in order to see your page in Search. If you open a Dynamics NAV 2018 page with CSIDE, you don’t have these properties available, while if you open the same page with Dynamics 365 Business Central on…

As you already know, today Microsoft has officially launched the general availability of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise . This release introduces also an important change regarding licensing. As usual, we have two main licensing types: Perpetual Licensing : you license the software with permanent usage rights. Subscription Licensing : you license non-perpetual rights to use the software, meaning you can use the software only during the term of the agreement secured by periodic payments. The news is that Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises offers two types…

As announced at Directions NA, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise is relesed today and it’s available on now Partnersource from this link . From Partnersource you can download the classic DVD package, but you have also the option to download it from Docker hub. This release also contains the B2B electronic invoice features. With this latest release, Microsoft Dynamics NAV is renamed Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on premises to be united under the Dynamics 365 Business Central brand. Dynamics NAV customers upgrading to Business Central on premises will enjoy the unique…