Category Archives: Quick Tip

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 →

Introducing the new landing page for all things related to reporting and data analysis in Business Central: http://aka.ms/bcreporting Similar to landing pages for security (http://aka.ms/bcsecurity), telemetry (http://aka.ms/bctelemetry), and performance (http://aka.ms/bcperformance), the new landing page should answer all questions that prospective or existing customers (or you) have about #msdyn365bc reporting.   Please visit http://aka.ms/bcreporting and let … Read More →

Recently I stumbled upon Manage Sessions in the Business Central Admin Center: In the Admin Center, open an environment: Then select: Manage sessions: Now you can see and cancel sessions:   More information is available here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/tenant-admin-center-environments#managing-sessions The Manage Sessions page displays information about active sessions on an environment and lets you cancel selected sessions. To open … Read More →

I recently discovered this cool feature in Business Central: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/dynamics365/business-central/admin-feature-management When Microsoft releases features or feature design improvements as part of minor updates, some features aren’t immediately enabled. Administrators can learn about these features and independently enable each feature from the Feature Management page. Once a feature is enabled, it becomes available for all users on that … Read More →

I recently discovered this cool feature in Business Central: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/admin-view-table-information The page 8700 Table Information provides information about all system and business tables in a Business Central solution. In particular, the page displays information about the amount of data the tables contain. This information is useful for troubleshooting performance problems, because let’s you see the distribution of … Read More →

I recently discovered this cool feature in Business Central: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/admin-view-database-locks https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/monitor-database-locks The Database Locks page gives snapshot of all current database locks. To view database locks, open page 9511 Database Locks in the client. The Database Locks page gives a snapshot of all current database locks in SQL Server. It provides information like the table and database resource affected by the … Read More →

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Since C/Side has gone forever, when installing Business Central on Premises you might wonder how to import or upload a license (flf) file into the service tier. Well the solution is very simple. First open the Business Central Administration Shell: Then use the command: Import-NAVServerLicense: More information is available here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.dynamics.nav.management/import-navserverlicense?view=businesscentral-ps-16 After importing a new … Read More →

Microsoft released Dynamics Business Central on Premises 2020 Wave 1 and you can download the On Prem installation DVD here: https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/northamerica/support/support-news/msdbcentralonprem20wave1 But when you do an installation, you might get the following error: This happens if you don’t meet the system requirements: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/deployment/system-requirement-business-central-v16 To confirm, you don’t need the SQL enterprise edition, SQL Express is … Read More →

Here are some interesting aka.ms links I have found: aka.ms/bcideas Dynamics 365 Application Ideas for Dynamics 365 Business Central aka.ms/bccountries Country/Regional availability and Supported Translations aka.ms/collaborate Microsoft Collaborate aka.ms/readytogo The “Ready to Go” Program aka.ms/bclearn Microsoft Learn for Business Central aka.ms/bcproductivity Working with Business Central aka.ms/bckeys Keyboard Shortcuts aka.ms/bcupdates Major Updates of Business Central Online … Read More →

Released Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4470116/released-cumulative-updates-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-business Released Updates for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2019 Release Wave 2: https://support.microsoft.com/nl-be/help/4528706/released-updates-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central-2019 Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premises Spring 2019 Updates: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/deployment/update-versions-14