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Introduction: In October 2019, Microsoft release a feature of Multiple Production Environments refer my previous Blog  https://www.olisterr.tech/2019/10/what-happens-when-you-have-multiple.html . Well, I'm glad to announce that this feature is also available to Sandbox  Environment. Pre-requisite: Access to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Access to Business Central Admin Center Procedure: Today, as I was logged into my client's tenant in https://home.dynamics.com  everything was normal until I clicked on Sandbox Dyanmics 365 Home Immediately noticing the pop for environment selection, although it says that you have multiple Production Environments select either of this. Sandbox Select I was curious as to When the hell did this happen? and that too with Sandbox Names on Production?? Did I make any mistake in configurations?? I checked the in the Admin Center to confirm and found out that these were Sandbox Environments and not Production.

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

Problem Statement: Disclaimer:  This blog is only applicable for Business Central On-Premise Version. If you are stuck in the same issue, try this at your own risk.  I had installed  Business Central v14 (Spring 2019) On-Premise with LS Retail . In this, Business Central comes with a ready made setup to connect with VS Code. As I restored the DB given by LS Retail, I could no longer connect to VS Code. This could be a potential case of  Running C/SIDE and AL Side-by-side  or customising on top of LS Retail. Despite all the configurations being correct in project's app.json and launch.json, I could no longer connect to Business Central, I  couldn't download any Symbols  and I  couldn't publish any Extension  to Business Central.   App.json and Launch.json I checked all BC Administration setup for Development and it seemed to be perfectly fine. I had  Enabled Development Endpoint ,   Development Endpoint Port was 7049 ,  Target was set to Internal ,  Ena

Introduction: As I upgraded my Business Central AL Language Extension and VS Code, I noticed that I was no longer authenticated to deploy my app to Business Central Sandbox using (Ctrl + F5) So I noticed a process change in authenticating VS Code and Business Central and you will find the details below. Pre- requisites : Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central v15 Sandbox VS Code AL Language 5.0.254558 Demonstration: After running AL : Clear credentials cache, I tried AL: Downloading the Symbol VS Code will give you a Pop-Up to Open the Window. Make sure you copy the code and click on Copy & Open Trying to Download Symbols Once you click on Copy & Open, it opens a browser window Select Copy & Open Paste the Code from VS Code Insert the code that you copied from VSCode and click Next. This will open the Login page with your accounts to select. Select your Account After this you will get a Message on the Browser and your Symbols wil

Introduction: Business Central Wave 1 2020 (version 16) Release is officially out! Let us see how to set it up! Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Wave 1 2020 (version 16) Released     Pre- requisites : Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Online Subscription Access to Admin Center Procedure: Go to Business Central Admin Centre > Environments > New Give Sandbox Name, Select Country and Version as 16. After Sandbox is deployed, you can go to Setup and Extensions > Extensions Here, you will find that the Base App, System App are up to version 16.0 Business Central v16 Extensions Yaaay!! We are finally on latest version of Business Central

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, in order

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