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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 my previous blog on  How to Setup NavUserPassword with SSL for Microsoft Dynamics Business Central , I have performed all the steps in such a way that it would perfectly fit with this blog to give you Single Sign-On(SSO) based access to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Pre- requisites : How to setup NAVUserPassword Authentication Understand how AzureAD Authentication works Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise Books & References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/authenticating-users-with-azure-active-directory Demonstration: 1. Preparation for SSO: Perform all the steps for NAVUserPassword based authentication. Refer here  How to Setup NavUserPassword with SSL for Microsoft Dynamics Business Central 2. Connect your device to AzureAD: Install Azure AD Module Install Azure AD Module by running the command highlighted After installation of Azure AD Module, ...

Introduction: In this blog, I'm attempting to setup basic authentication like NavUserPassword for Business Central On-Premise. NavUserPassword is an authentication system, where each user have their own UserID and password which is configured inside Business Central itself. Pre- requisites : Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise Domain for your VM Understanding of Credential Types in Business Central Demonstration: 1. Setup DNS in Azure VM: Go to your VM inside Azure to configure DNS. Click on Configure Put the URL as you need. 2.  Create a Webserver Instance for Business Central: New-NAVWebServerInstance to create a Web Server Instance Adding Web Server Instance with the name LS 3. Create a Self Signed Certificate or get an SSL from Domain provider: Run the PowerShell script to create a self signed certificate New Self-Signed Certificate New Self-Signed Certificate created After creation/installation of Certificate, righ...

Introduction: In Microsoft Dynamics NAV(NAVISION ERP), there is a feature on Financial Documents called Record Links. Record Links are used to copy multiple URL links, Texts on the documents so that it can be used for reference later. The best part of Record Links is that, these can be added through Document and post it. After posting these the Record Links are copied to G/L, Subledger and Posted Documents as well. Pre- requisites : Microsoft Dynamics NAV Books & References: https://forum.mibuso.com/discussion/41101/how-to-copy-notes-stored-in-record-links-table Demonstration: 1. What is Record Links: Record Links is a feature to add links and texts on Documents. You will need to click on Links Actions on the page. You will get the Link insertion Window, where as below. Records Link Insertion After the Link is inserted, you will get a view where you can open the link. Viewing Record Links 2. How Record Links work: Record Links is stored in Sys...

Introduction: This blog describes Container, Docker, and Benefits of using Containers. As containers was a new functionality in Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Preview from September Update, this document also demonstrates creating containers and how to implement extensions using containers. Also, it includes saving the image into Azure Container Registry Service. Pre-requisites: Microsoft NAV Development Preview(December update) Visual Studio Code(VS Code) Description of Containers: 1. What is a Container? A container image is a lightweight, stand-alone, executable package of a piece of software that includes everything needed to run it: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries, settings. Available for both Linux and Windows based apps, containerized software will always run the same, regardless of the environment. Containers isolate software from its surroundings, for example differences between development and staging environments and help reduce conflicts between teams runn...