Month: February 2023

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The fourth of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is Transfer Environments Between Azure Ad Tenants.

In some cases, administrators may want to transfer their Dynamics 365 Business Central environment to another Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant—for example, to consolidate environments belonging to the same company in a single tenant when one company is acquired by another, or for partners to transfer a demo environment to their customer to test with. Until now, this scenario was supported through service requests that required paperwork to ensure consents from all involved parties were in place.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

In 2023 release wave 1, the process for transferring a Business Central environment to a different Azure AD tenant will be a self-service scenario. Internal administrators can request an environment transfer from the source tenant, then accept the transfer from the target tenant.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The third of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is Include Or Exclude Tables From Cloud Migration.

Explicitly including or excluding certain tables from cloud migration runs will make it easier to specify what data you want to migrate to the cloud.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

Some customers have specific needs to explicitly include or exclude certain tables when migrating their data to the cloud. We now make it possible to specify whether any table—as long as it’s accessible by AL code and not marked as internal or on-premises only—is included or excluded as part of the cloud migration.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The second of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is Get An Improved Cloud Migration Status Overview.

The cloud migration pages in the application will be improved to create a better overview of the status of the data migration. The improvements will make it easier to surface any failures or tables that were skipped during migration.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

The cloud migration status details in the application help you stay informed on the execution of your data migration. In this wave, we make errors more discoverable, warnings more helpful, and it’s easier to get an overview of what data was moved, overwritten, or missed.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The first of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is Experience Improved App Management Settings.

With this release wave, it’ll be easier to make sure that apps that are installed in an environment are always updated to the latest version.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

Already today, you can update individual apps that are installed in your environments from the App Management page in the Business Central admin center. With this release wave, we’re adding new settings to manage apps from the admin center. For example, it’ll be possible to specify when updates for apps can be installed automatically, or to update all apps that have available updates in one go.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The eighth of the new functionality in the Development section is ISVs Can Organize A Preview For Their Appsource Apps.

Allow AppSource ISV publishers to test and collect early feedback on the new version of their app by organizing a private preview with a select group of their customers.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

AppSource ISVs will be able to test and collect early feedback on the new versions of their apps by organizing a private preview with a select group of their customers.

When uploading an app to AppSource, publishers will be able to keep the app in preview mode. This will provide publishers with a link to the preview app that includes a custom “flightcode,” which can be sent to selected customers. Customers who opt into the preview can then install and test that app in their environments and provide feedback to the ISV.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The seventh of the new functionality in the Development section is AL-Go For Github – Modern Devops For Partners.

With AL-Go for GitHub, DevOps becomes a tool instead of an investment area. The target for AL-Go for GitHub is to have 100 percent of the functionality needed by 90 percent of Microsoft partners. These partners should be able to use AL-Go for GitHub as their DevOps solution without the need to hire a DevOps engineer.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

AL-Go is a collection of GitHub templates and actions that turn professional DevOps processes for Business Central AL projects into a commodity for our partners. The initial release of AL-Go has been a success with the partner community, with 500-plus repositories created over the first three months, offering an easy path to continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), quality assurance, change and performance tracking, code consistency, collaboration, managing updates, and more.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The fifth of the new functionality in the Development section is Provide Title And Custom Actions To Error Dialogs.

To help users get unblocked from issues when working with Business Central, Microsoft have introduced the capability to allow developers to unblock users when they encounter issues right away by choosing a corrective action. Making error messages more user-friendly helps build trust in Business Central while at the same time saving time in correcting common issues.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

Developers can now set the Title property on Error dialogs that are presented to the user to enrich issue description. On top of that, using the ErrorInfo object, developers can add up to three custom actions that will be displayed on the Error dialog to provide users with corrective actions. This can be achieved by calling the AddAction method on the ErrorInfo object, which can be passed to AL methods that support ErrorInfo such as Error, TestField, FieldError, and others.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The sixth of the new functionality in the Development section is Control Database Locking Behaviour.

Database locking is a main root cause for performance issues. When AL code takes fewer locks, it increases the performance of the system for end users.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Apr 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

By default, the runtime of Business Central automatically determines the isolation levels used when querying the database. AL developers can now explicitly control the database isolation level on individual reads on a record instance.

A new ReadIsolation method has been introduced on the record data type. The method has the following syntax:

rec.ReadIsolation := IsolationLevel::

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The fourth of the new functionality in the Development section is Optimized Runtime Package Generation For Sharing.

Whenever partners want to consume AppSource apps as part of local development, or continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, they need to contact app owners to request runtime packages. This is a manual and time-consuming process both for publishers and resellers and includes additional work for publishers to generate appropriate runtime package versions. Given the increase of both AppSource app customers and amount of AppSource apps per customer, optimizing runtime package generation and distribution is important in reducing partner overhead and scale resources efficiently.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

While requested, this feature does not introduce a new runtime package cloud service for partners to manage and share runtime libraries. Instead, it focuses on defining a standardized format for sharing runtime packages by providing the ability to generate runtime packages with alc.exe instead of an NST. Using alc.exe reduces complexity and improves performance and it adds CI/CD scripts both for publishers to generate runtime packages on demand and for resellers to request and download these on demand. These tools increase efficiency and reduce manual work. Taking this approach also allows publishers to distribute apps for on-premises, aligning support resellers both for on-premises and cloud development.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The third of the new functionality in the Development section is Improved Compiler Resource Handling And Faster Code Analyzers.

Boost productivity of Business Central developers by improving performance of compilation, code analyzing, and individual code analyzer rules.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

Developers often experience reduced responsiveness and delayed results when using static code analysis tools (AL cops) to find diagnostic issues. This can be annoying and affect their productivity, as they cannot react faster on the issues detected in the code. With this release we’re planning to improve the performance of the compiler and code analyzer framework, as well as optimize inefficient code analyzer rules—all to boost developer productivity.