The recording of my last webcast for Areopa Academy is available on their YouTube channel . Again, sorry for the initial GotoMeeting problem and sorry for my error during the first demo (function deployed on the wrong subscription) In-depth explanations for some topics will follow soon.

Some months ago I’ve written this post describing an interesting solution we’ve deployed for a geo-distributed solution that involves Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS , Azure Functions and Azure CosmosDB as a final backend. I’ve received lots of questions related to this architecture and in this post I want to explain the right part of the above diagram. The problem to solve here is: if I have N client applications geolocated in different countries, is there a way to redirect the incoming call to an Azure Function accordingly to the client location? Here, we have deployed an Azure Function…

Yesterday at our “ Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 What’s new ” event in Microsoft Italy we quickly saw hot to debug the Microsoft’s Base Application from Visual Studio Code. I’ve not spent too much time on this topic due to lack of time, but here is a summary of what I’ve done yesterday (answer to a question received after the event). As a first step, you need the Microsoft Base Application source files, available from the Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise DVD (as a .zip file) or that you can extract from a Docker container in the following way: $alProjectFolder = "C:\SD\BaseApp…

Do you know the wonderful C/AL (ops, now AL) command called TRANSFERFIELDS ? This command permits you to copy all matching fields in one record to another record: Record.TRANSFERFIELDS(FromRecord [, InitPrimaryKeyFields]) TRANSFERFIELDS  copies fields based on the  Field No. Property  of the fields. For each field in  Record  (the destination), the contents of the field that has the same Field No. in  FromRecord  (the source) will be copied, if such a field exists. The fields must have the same data type for the copying to succeed (text and code are convertible, other types are not.) There…

I’ve explained few days ago how to change a license from customer’s one to partner’s one when working with Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 on-premise . This more tricky process occours mainly because now you don’t have the Development Environment available anymore. Another problem that you could have strictly related to this is the following: how can I create a new Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 database now? For creating a new database, now Powershell is again your friend. To create a new Dynamics 365 Business Central database, you need to use the NAV- NAVApplicationDatabase cmdlet…

This is the meeting’s week for all the european Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central partners (and not only them I think) and Vienna for the second time hosts a great 3 days of conference. This is the event to attend to know more about the Microsoft’s strategy for Dynamics 365 Business Central (present and future) and for making interactions with all the great partner’s community. My personal recommendation for the event to all of you: come to Directions EMEA for learning but also for providing constructive feedbacks to Microsoft . Microsoft is here with all the product team and feedbacks…

I was sure this was an obvious topic until today, but after receiving so many desperate questions from partners that are unable to change the license for an on-premise Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 database for development purposes, I’ve decided to spent few minutes for sharing this. When you install Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise Wave 2 (or version 15) release, you’ll see that the setup permits you to select the following things: and when installed you have the following 3 applications: As you can see, there’s no more the classic CSIDE Development Environment but now…

Checking which plan is assigned to a specific user (Essential, Premium, Team Member) is become a quite different thing with the Wave 2 release (version 15). Users plans are now managed in the System Application via the Azure AD Plan module . The Plan and User Plan tables are now marked as internal, so you must use the methods provided in this module to query them. How can you check if a user is an Essential, Premium or Team Member user with the version 15 release? You now have a query object called Users in Plans and you can use this object to retrieve the plans assigned to your user. For…