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ANNOUNCEMENT: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central v22(Wave 1 2023) preview is out.  For more details check the announcement from Microsoft below -    Microsoft Announcements Emma Bak Nielsson (Adecco A/S)  - Announcing: Public preview for 2023 release wave is... Emma Bak Nielsson (Adecco A/S)   –   12 hours ago   –  Edited   Announcement: Announcing: Public preview for 2023 release wave is available! Read more about what is new and planned for Business Central 2023 release wave 1 https://aka.ms/BCReleasePlan and learn what's new in the Business Central Launch Event! Register now: aka.ms/BCLE Try it out today! We are pleased to announce global roll-out of the preview environments for Business Central 2023 release wave 1 (April).   Help us! We want more partners to try it out. Let us know about your experiences with the new version. You can provide feedback on Microsoft Collaborate (learn how here: aka.ms/BCPreview ) - or give us feedback and ask questions it in the Yammer grou

Problem Statement: When MFA has introduced a couple of months ago in Office 365 / Microsoft 365 or made mandatory for a certain set of accounts, Microsoft Dynamics 365 NAV / Business Central had issues sending email through SMTP Email. Pre- requisites : Office 365 / Microsoft 365 Account Enabled Outlook Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central  Demonstration: 1. Creating App Password for Multi-Factor Authentication based Accounts: After you have set up MFA, Microsoft 365 allows you to create a One-Time password to login to the corresponding apps. This password cannot be viewed again so copy it somewhere. Follow the process below. Office 365 > My Account Settings & Privacy > Privacy > View Page Link Security & Privacy > Additional security verification > Create and manage app password Create Password Copy Password 2. Enabling Authenticated SMTP in Office 365 / Microsoft 365 Admin Center: After you have a password created, you need to check if you Mail Apps have the

Problem Statement: After the launch of BC v16 in April 2020, I got an email stating htat the BC Production Upgrade will be scheduled to in June 2020. A couple of days passed by and all the Users started getting this image.  Take Action Now - Your Business Central Tenant Cannot be updated to BC 16 Although I certainly appreciate having this image on top as notification everytime you login into Business Central, I have gotten feedback from my customers stating that this creates some sort of tension and discouragment between the Users. Pre- requisites : Understanding of how to Upgrade Business Central Knowledge of Notification Recepients Understanding of changes code from BC vX to BC vY Solution: 1. Find out which extension is stopping BC from being upgraded. Generally this is available through emails that have been received from Microsoft. 2. Deprecate the old code and refactor to latest version by using the latest version of  AL Language Extension and Business Central Sandbox. Refer  ht

Business Central Saturday - Accountant's Hub for Microsoft Dynamics  Business Central 365 Sources: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/accountants/ https://www.olisterr.tech/2020/05/accountants-hub-for-microsoft-dynamics.html Presentation:  https://cloudfronts1-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/orumao_cloudfronts_com/Eau2k_E3QlFCoZnis7fNetwBogzT1x94EoDXI2Aic79Rvw?e=1hY0oS Features and index for the presentation described are as follows: 1. Signup & User Setup  Signup & User Setup                                                   Slide No.   What is Accountant's Hub for Business Central  5    Accountant's Hub Signup  6  Inviting External Accountants to Business Central   11  User Configuration in O365 / M365 Admin Center  16  Accountant Hub's Admin Center  19 2. External Accountants in Business Central  External Accountants in Business Central                 Slide No.   User Setup - External Accounts                                23                  Acc

Introduction: In this blog, I will be showing how to schedule updates for Business Central Online(NAVISION ERP) Pre- requisites : Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Active Subscription Access to Business Central Admin Center Demonstration: 1. Check if you have an update: After you have logged into Business Central Admin Center, you will see if for your Sandbox or Production has an update available. Update Available 2. Schedule an update: After your update has been scheduled, your tenant will automatically upgrade itself and you will be getting an email for the same. Scheduling Update Conclusion: As compared to schedule update for Business Central through Admin Center which wouldn't be much reliable and would give you the time frame instead of a date and later updating through Microsoft Support if the process failed. Well, I hope this blog shows how to upgrade your Business Central Environment without much intervention and you can schedule f

Introduction: With Business Central already upgraded to v15.4, and soon about to upgrade to v16 after 1st April 2020, there are very useful features being added to Business Central Administration I'm super excited to blog about these. Let us check them out. I think its finally time to say "Now we are talking!" Pre- requisites : Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Online Access to Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Admin Centre Demonstration: Change #1: Layout of List of Environments A clean and a user friendly layout change can be observed in the List of Environments. You can see fields such Available Update Version, Scheduled Update Date List of Environments List of Environments selection Change #2: Environment Details New Actions - Manage Apps: In this you can see what all apps are installed in your Business Central Environments Manage Sessions: In this you can see all the sessions running for your Business Central Environments Applicati

Introduction: In this blog, I plan to cover the changes in Business Central Admin Center in 2019 Wave 2 Release. Prerequisites: Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Demonstration: Changes in Business Central Admin Center are as follows 1. Changes in Action Button and addition of Refresh Button in Environments section: List of Environments and Actions 2. Addition of Action Buttons Environment Card (Details) Page: New Additions in Action are Report Production Outage and Manage Support Contact Environment Details and Actions You can create a Support Ticket for the Tenant, Report Outages in Production and also Delete the Production as multiple Production Environments are supported. 3. Creation of New Environment: Creation of New Environment either multiple Production and Sandbox. Can select appropriate Country Region for the Environment. Can even select version including version 15.03650.0 for Production and above versions such as 15.0.36135.0 (Preview) for

Introduction: What is Admin Center in Business Central on Cloud? How to use it and what are the implications? Admin Center is one of the newest features of Business Central On Cloud. Here, you can manage your environments and performs tasks related to your environment. Demonstration: To goto Admin Centre, visit the URL https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/<TENANTID>admin To visit the Admin Centre you should have the Global Administrator permission in Office 365. Environments: Here you can see a list of Environments. You cannot Create to Delete the production environment. Only you can Create or Delete Sandbox Environments. Viewing details of the Environment:  Click on the Environment Name Upgrade Settings: You can set the Time to auto upgrade your Tenant Environment. Copying of Production on Sandbox: Notification Recipient: Notification Recipient is a person to notify in case there are some things to notify the user about. I thought it was with