The release plan for Business Central 2024 release wave 2 is now live!  Discover what’s new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central at http://aka.ms/BCReleasePlan. What interests me the most is: Some interesting Power BI reports coming: Finance: 14 reports Sales: 12 reports Purchasing: 13 reports Inventory: 7 reports Manufacturing: 11 reports Projects: 6 reports Read More →

When you create a Power BI Dataflow with the Business Central connector, you might get the following error: The OData connector failed with the following error: We cannot convert the value null to type Duration. The error mentions a conversion of null into a type Duration. This got me thinking. Let’s have a look at Read More →

Currently Microsoft is updating BC Saas sandboxes to version 23. When you create a new AL project (AL:Go!), and setup your launch.json and app.json files correctly and then try to download symbols, then you might get this error: This AL extension version for Visual Studio Code cannot be used with the specified server. Please update Read More →

If you are using Business Central Telemetry in Azure Application Insights, then you might be very interested in this amazing Power BI report: BCTech/README.md at master · microsoft/BCTech (github.com) Use this link to install/update the template app: https://aka.ms/bctelemetryreport The report comes with sample data. To connect the report to an Azure Application Insights resource, you need Read More →

Did you know that Windows 10 came with a free remote control tool called Quick Assist? Quick Assist is an app in Windows 10 that enables you to receive or provide assistance over a remote connection. Here’s a video about it: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/videoplayer/embed/RE4FyMn?pid=ocpVideo0-innerdiv-oneplayer&postJsllMsg=true&maskLevel=20&market=en-us   Give assistance   Select Start  > Quick Assist (or select the Start  button, type Quick Assist in the search box, Read More →

Yesterday Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan (@KennieNP) / Twitter announced on twitter that the new PowerPoint deck “Using telemetry to improve your partner practices and processes” is now available.   You can find it here: BCTech/samples/AppInsights/Presentations at master · microsoft/BCTech (github.com)   You can use it to evangelize the use of telemetry apart from troubleshooting, or to Read More →