We are overjoyed to announce that our 2nd eBook release is now live! Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central API v2.0 Reference This book is meant to be not only an introduction but a powerful companion to the official documentation for anyone who has a need to rely on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central API … Read more
I’m pretty excited today. Our AppSource offer for Spare Brained Licensing was approved. It’s a free tool, anyone can use it. Why is this exciting? What It Does The Spare Brained Licensing app is a gatekeeper, a virtual bouncer. It is built on the idea that an Extension should have an active License Key, and … Read more
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is an interesting product with a challenge. Most people have heard of Microsoft, a sizeable amount of people have heard of Dynamics, but very few people who don’t use or work with Business Central have heard of it. The rename from Navision or NAV also changed the playing field. Like … Read more
So, as with all things tech, a Final Answer is subject to change. 😀 In a Microsoft Readiness newsletter today, I got some happy news (besides the huge 1:2 change to 1:3 for conversions of Full Users): Dynamics 365 Business Central External Accountant and System Administrator User Business Central on-premises customer licenses have been … Read more
Note: This was evolving information at the time and, thankfully, the policies have changed, making smarter options available for partners to access customers. If you’ve come here looking for information about licenses, please see our summary Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central License Guide! As we have multiple Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise customers coming … Read more
Early last month, I had outlined my concern about the Licensing Guide (PartnerSource access required), particularly talking about Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise CAL licensing for Named Users. Partners need to access production environments for tasks on a regular basis. Under the Named User licensing, we need a Named User for that access. This appeared to … Read more
We have a customer coming online using Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise CU1 with a mix of Essentials Users and Team Members. While setting their staff up, we discovered an interesting trouble and I wanted to share a work-around in case anyone else has this pop up: You do not have the following permissions on … Read more
Note: This was evolving information at the time and, thankfully, the policies have changed, making smarter options available for partners to access customers. If you’ve come here looking for information about licenses, please see the License Guide! Disclaimer: I’m hopeful this is right, it’s a very confusing area of Licensing. Please contact me and let … Read more
I’m very glad to see that Gunnar Gestsson has started Objects4nav. I’ve felt that there needed to be a space where people could contribute tiny bits of code that were useful, but too small to develop into full add-on/ISV solutions, enough so that I had tried to start a similar initiative about a year ago as part … Read more
Realtime Object Usage Statistics is a Microsoft Dynamics NAV customization that enables tracking when users access Forms, Pages and/or Reports. This is accomplished by installing a small tracking code into every NAV UI object. The data is gathered into a log table that can then be easily used for analysis. Through an innovative and easy … Read more
