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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...

ANNOUNCEMENT : September 1st, 2020 Microsoft has informed the existing Business Central customers through their Admin Center with the below message. Microsoft will be updating the Release Plan, Licensing Guide, and CSP Pricelist by 7th September 2020. Link to Release Plan   Value Proposition: As you know that the maximum of 3 Production Environment can be created, Microsoft has decided to provide the option of adding unlimited Production Environments. These Production Environments can be purchased through CSP separately. Along with these Production Environments how many Sandbox environments will be available is NOT YET FIXED. Tentatively this ratio is for every 1 Production there will be 3 Sandboxes available. Also, as per my understanding, the Database Space(80 GB) is allocated separately for Production and Sandbox. Hence, the 80 GB size will be shared between multiple Production and similarly for Sandbox as well. With every Production Environment extra 4GB Database Capacity will...

  Introduction: Ever felt a need to expose Dimensions on G/L Entries? Wouldn't it be simple to check-in G/L Entries or perform a Pivot in Excel directly? Well, that is exactly what I'm planning for. Use Case: Add the 2 Global Dimension  & 6 Shortcut Dimension to G/L Entries Table in Business Central. These fields should be downloadable in Edit in Excel. Pre- requisites : Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central VS Code AL Language Extension Procedure: 1. Adding fields to the Page: I will be creating 8 variables on the G/L Entry Page of the Type Code[30] and add the variables as fields to the page. Fields to G/L Entry Page 2. Adding Logic to fetch data into the fields: The fields that were recently created needs to be filled in with values for each and every record. Dimension Set Entries table consist of Dimension Set ID (Integer) and Dimension Code which will be getting from General Ledger Setup.  Fetch the Dimension Value Output: Dimension in G/L Entries  Exporti...

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...

Introduction: Transferring data from Business Central Tables through API is one of the latest version of transferring data from or to Business Central using the API Page Objects or  Web Services. Well, it gets a little difficult to transfer file blobs using the Media.ReadLinks and Media.EditLinks JSON field. Pre-requisite: Understanding of Business Central API Understanding how Blobs are accessible to Business Central AL Language Extension VS Code Understanding of JSON Data Types References: https://www.olisterr.tech/2019/09/understanding-apis-in-business-central.html https://demiliani.com/2020/01/24/dynamics-365-business-central-handling-blob-fields-on-apis/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/methods-auto/jsonobject/jsonobject-data-type Solution: 1. Using Business Central API to Pass Data from  BLOB to Base64 String: Whenever you have a file in a BLOB field and want to transfer as a Base 64 string to API - POST Request. Con...

Announcement: Wave 2 2020 Release Plan for Business Central is available! Yesterday, 8th July 2020 at 5PM IST Microsoft Officially release the Wave 2 2020 Release Plan and a list of upcoming features. Source:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365-release-plan/2020wave2/smb/dynamics365-business-central/planned-features In this blog, I will highlight all the upcoming features and explain them in detail and how they help us. Abbreviations:  GA - General Availability PP - Public Preview  N/A - Not Available Administration: 1. Deprecation of Legacy Dynamics NAV Help Server Component: PP - N/A; GA - Oct 2020 Since the ages of NAV, we are given an option to install the NAV Help Server Component. As a part of Business Central On-Premise  we still do get the documentation although it hasn't changed much. Also, SaaS version has the help server preinstalled on the App Service as well. Microsoft is planning to deprecate the Legacy version of the help server and replace i...

Announcement: Microsoft Dynamics Accountants Hub is retiring and will be upgraded to Business Central Extension!! Accountant's Hub retiring and Migrated to Business Central Extension Yesterday I received an email from the Microsoft Accountant Hub's Team. An email has been sent to me because one of my Tenant had an active Accountant's Hub Subscription with Business Central. Moreover, the Accountant's Hub was under public preview for countries such as  US, Canada, UK and Denmark for approximately a year. New sign-ups to Accountant's Hub has been disabled as on July 1st 2020 and will be retiring as Accountant's Hub through Dynamics Home. A new extension will be released in Business Central to handle the Accountants Hub's functionality as on October 1st 2020 i.e Microsoft Dynamics 365 Wave 2 2020 Release. Existing Users of the Accountant's Hub will have the access to their Accountant's Hub Tenant till October 1st 2020. Microsoft has not provided any deta...

Update 16.3 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 1 (Application Build 16.3.14238, Platform Build 16.3.14195) is out!! Microsoft Dynamics Business Central - 16.3 is out!! To Upgrade  you Business Central, please visit  https://www.olisterr.tech/2020/04/how-to-upgrade-your-business-central.html Source:   https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4563407/update-16-3-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central-2020-release-w For the list of updates released for Business Central 16.2 visit   https://www.olisterr.tech/2020/06/microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central.html Key Features / Hotfixes / Updates Platform Hotfixes ID Title 353587 The application programming interfaces (APIs) that use another API as sub-entity make API Service unavailable (HTTP 500). 360090 Columns get misaligned and the list is scrolled when you press the TAB key. 359296 HttpClient HEAD calls are blocked even if the real size of the content is very small because NavHttpClientMaxRespo...