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Introduction: In this blog, I will be discussing the approach of handling the Business Central downtime from an End User's perspective. I will be addressing how to debug and understand what could be a possible source of error which is could be causing the downtime of Business Central Production & Sandbox. Business Central not accessible Pre- requisites : 1. Microsoft Dynamics Business Central 2. Access to Business Central Admin Center 3. Access to Office 365 Admin Procedure: 1. Check if you have a license assigned to your user : If you get the licensing error like the below, you need to confirm if you're getting logged in with the correct user and your license is correct. Missing License or Invalid User You can go to home.dynamics.com to verify the user logged in. Dynamics Home - https://home.dynamics.com     To be sure if this is not a license issue, kindly contact your Administrator or a friend who has access. In Tell Me key in 'Users' > Select the User License

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