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This month’s update for Power BI Desktop filled with both small and large improvements across the entire product. One huge update is support in the Power BI service for both our composite model and aggregation previews. This really enables you to start using these preview features end-to-end for your normal reports. We also have two significant data prep features this month as well: fuzzy matching capabilities when merging queries and data profiling to help identify quality issues. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-october-2018-feature-summary Here’s the complete list…

Recently, on some of my ‘machines’ I get the following errors, when trying to publish an extension (F5): The runtime version of the extension package is currently set to '2.0'. The runtime version must be set to '1.0' or earlier in the app.json file in order to install the extension package on this platform. Apparently, this is a new feature because the AL language extension is compatible with multiple platform versions. You can install the AL Language extension from the Visual Studio Code marketplace and use it to develop solutions for Dynamics 365 Business Central. To set the platform…

Did you know that you can select the environment you publish to in Visual Studio Code? For example, when you AL:Publish (F5), you then see multiple choices: To accomplish this, simply use a comma (,) in the “configurations” section in your Launch.json file: And voila, that’s it!

Well, first of all, why not? And second, I’ll be there All kidding aside, when you are passionate about and want to drive innovation and success with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Business Central, these are pretty good conferences to get informed about what’s coming, learn about it, talk about it, exchange knowledge and ideas, get inspired… There are many sessions from many inspirational speakers: https://www.navtechdays.com/2018/sessions http://directionsemea.com/sessions/sessions-by-learning-paths/ and I wanted to highlight the following ones: Add some magic to Business Central…

Have you been in a situation where you are on a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central instance and want to figure out the build number? Well, look no further and simply open the System Information page: and voila:

Microsoft is very excited to announce that as part of our September update, we have a preview of aggregations, which allows you to seamlessly store only summarized values in memory without having to load your entire dataset into Power BI, greatly improving the performance of your reports. This month also includes a preview of a PDF file connector, which is the most requested connector on UserVoice; and one of our biggest updates to our advanced query editor in quite a while, M intellisense. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-september-2018-feature-summary/ Here’s the…

With this release, there are several new features that help building your solutions as extensions: New virtual tables for Report Data Items and all Page Control fields Translating Base App help using AL extensions Adding help links with user locale on new created objects Field group extensiblity Report substitution is possible from extensions See more here: Developer Preview – August 2018

The August release is filled with features that address some of the top requests we’ve heard from users. The most exciting of which is our Export to PDF feature which is geared towards our #1 feature request on UserVoice, printing in Power BI Desktop. We also have an exciting update for data scientists and statisticians with our new Python integration. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-august-2018-feature-summary/ Here’s the complete list of August updates: Reporting Print reports through Export to PDF Create bookmark groups Theming generally available Slicer…

A free version of Teams , the collaboration tool used by hundreds of thousands of businesses across the world, has been released by Microsoft . The program, which brings together chat, meetings, calling, files and apps in a shared workspace, will be available in 40 languages for up to 300 people. The move comes ahead of Inspire , Microsoft’s annual partner conference, in Las Vegas, Nevada. https://news.microsoft.com/en-gb/2018/07/13/microsoft-releases-free-version-of-teams-so-you-can-call-chat-and-collaborate-as-much-as-you-want/ The free version of Teams, part of Microsoft 365 , will…

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nav/2018/07/30/developer-preview-july-2018-update/ Welcome to the July update of the Developer Preview. With this release, we bring you several new features that help building your solutions as extensions. We also include over 200 resolved GitHub issues. See the list of closed bugs here:  https://github.com/Microsoft/AL/milestone/18?closed=1 . OData-bound actions in AL Event discovery using a recorder Extensible Enums This Developer Preview is available only through the Ready to Go program. Read more at  http://aka.ms/readytogo . To get all fixes…