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Business Central 365 SQL Server RDLC NAV to BC upgrades.
Started with Navision 2.6 in 2004 and lots of Mibuso
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🚀 New Blog Post: GitHub Copilot Playbook – Getting Started

AI is transforming how we develop software and GitHub Copilot is leading the charge.
Check out the first post of a new series bcdevnotebook.com/2025/11/11/g...

#GitHubCopilot #BusinessCentral #msdyn365bc #AI
GitHub Copilot Playbook: Getting Started
In the ever-evolving world of software development, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. One of the latest tools making waves in the industry is GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered coding assistant dev…
bcdevnotebook.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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nataliekarolak.bsky.social
Update 27.1 for #msdyn365bc has been released.

🆕 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝟮𝟳.𝟭 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝟭
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynami...

Feature changes:
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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yzhums.bsky.social
Business Central 2026 release wave 1 (BC28) Roadmap (investment areas)
Source: www.linkedin.com/posts/micros...

#Dynamics365
#Dynamics
#MSDyn365
#MicrosoftDYN365
#MSDyn365BC
#businesscentral
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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demiliani.bsky.social
Dynamics 365 Business Central and Azure Front Door issue. What happened exactly?
demiliani.com/2025/10/30/d...
#azure #msdyn365bc
Dynamics 365 Business Central and Azure Front Door issue.
Yesterday I received (and read) lots of messages by many partners and customers related to the unavailability of the Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS service for some period. The issue was not a …
demiliani.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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waldo1001.bsky.social
As promised .. new blog 📢

Analyzing BC Telemetry with AI with the “BC Telemetry Buddy”

waldo.be/2025/10/22/i...

#msdyn365bc #JustAsk
Analyzing BC Telemetry with AI with the “BC Telemetry Buddy”
I did a thing … TL;DR I created an MCP for VSCode that makes it possible for you to just “talk” to your Telemetry without touching KQL or getting to know any tools.  It&#8217…
waldo.be
October 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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nataliekarolak.bsky.social
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗯𝗼𝘅 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynami...

✏️ Precautions for sandbox environments with production data
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynami...

🆕 Agents:
When an environment is created as a copy, then ....
All agents are copied with their tasks, but are turned off on the target environment To see which agents are turned off, and to decide which agents to enable in the new environment, go to the Agents page in Business Central. There, you can enable agents as needed for the copied environment.
October 22, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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nataliekarolak.bsky.social
The 𝗕𝗖 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗬𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 will very soon move to Viva Engage. Community members will be automatically migrated between now and the end of November 2025.

If you are not yet a member, submit this form to join: aka.ms/BCVivaEngage

#msdyn365bc
October 15, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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areopawebinars.bsky.social
Did you miss @waldo1001.bsky.social talk about slow #msdyn365bc #performance? 🐌 🐌

Just imagine your customer saying: “Wow, it’s not slow anymore. What did you do?” And you replying: “I watched waldo.” 😎

Recording is now on YouTube: youtu.be/brroEMkXqC4
October 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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tinestaric.bsky.social
Tried to remember which Format() gives me a GUID without braces for the 7th time this month… so I made a quick AL Format() cheatsheet 🧠💡
tine.staric.net/blog/2025/fo...
Format Cheatsheet
This is a very quick cheatsheet for all the different formats that you get out of AL using the Format() function with various format options.
tine.staric.net
October 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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nataliekarolak.bsky.social
Docs, AL Language changelog, BCLE videos, and what not ... so much to learn about what's new in BC 27 for developers!

But don't worry - I've combined it all-in-one in my new blog:

𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘀: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗖 𝟮𝟳 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀
nataliekarolak.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/d...
Docs: What’s new in BC 27 for developers
Summary of all technical changes in Business Central 2025 release wave 2 (BC 27 / runtime 16.0) mentioned in the docs and beyond.
nataliekarolak.wordpress.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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tinestaric.bsky.social
The AL prerelease just dropped some very nice tools for GitHub Copilot! 😉
September 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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lucvandyck.bsky.social
What Sam and Alex have developed... #CopilotAgent #msdyn365bc
Result from a Copilot agent session showing what Sam has developed Result from a Copilot agent session showing what Alex has developed
September 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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September 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I am surprised how few views there are for the "OnlyBCFans" in YouTube. Just finished listening to a fascinating interview with Freddy Kristiansen.
If you are a Business Central developer, I encourage you to go to YouTube to listen to their videos.
September 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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yzhums.bsky.social
Use Copilot and MCP to query Microsoft Learn Docs
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurede...

#Copilot
#MCP
#MicrosoftLearn
Use Copilot and MCP to query Microsoft Learn Docs | Microsoft Community Hub
Are you ready to take your Azure development workflow to the next level? In this post, we’ll walk through how to use GitHub Copilot in Agent Mode—paired with...
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September 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Business Central 2025 wave 2 (BC27): View SQL call information in performance profiles yzhums.com/67392/

#Dynamics365
#Dynamics
#MSDyn365
#MicrosoftDYN365
#MSDyn365BC
#BusinessCentral
Business Central 2025 wave 2 (BC27): View SQL call information in performance profiles
Hi, Readers.The public preview for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 release wave 2 (BC27) is available. Learn more:Lin
yzhums.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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stefanmaron.com
🔧 AL MCP Server: Make AL symbols visible to AI!

AI can't see AL packages/dependencies. This fixes that.

✅ AI understands your AL codebase
✅ Smart suggestions
✅ npx al-mcp-server

Works with Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor.

👉 github.com/StefanMaron/AL-Dependency-MCP-Server

#msdyn365bc #AI
GitHub - StefanMaron/AL-Dependency-MCP-Server
Contribute to StefanMaron/AL-Dependency-MCP-Server development by creating an account on GitHub.
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September 3, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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nataliekarolak.bsky.social
You want to code in AL more efficiently, but you don't know which VS Code extension to use?
You are a VS Code extension developer searching for features that do not exist yet?

Search no more - but take a look:
nataliekarolak.wordpress.com/2023/06/15/v...

#msdyn365bc
VS Code extensions for AL: Feature overview
Feature overview of the most popular VS Code extensions for AL programmers
nataliekarolak.wordpress.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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nataliekarolak.bsky.social
If you've ever wondered how to use the new 𝗢𝗻𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿 (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynami...) for PDF post-processing in #msdyn365bc, then refer to this 🆕 example in the BCTech repository:

github.com/microsoft/BC...
June 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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stefanmaron.com
🚫 No shortcuts. Just the right way.
🔧 Starting a new blog series on Business Central development — focused 100% on clean, compliant, upgrade-safe code.

This is for developers who want to build apps the right way.

stefanmaron.com/posts/introd...

#msdyn365bc #BusinessCentral #CleanCode
Introducing the “No Shortcuts” Series: The 100% Correct Way to Develop for Business Central | Stefan Maron blog
Technical blog about Business central stuff
stefanmaron.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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richcampbell.bsky.social
Little Bobby Tables... the next generation.
April 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
davmac1.bsky.social
I have an on prem BC23.5 install that is missing the system.app.
After I load my partner license and restart, I get the error: your program license does not allow you to publish "Company Triggers".
Any ideas how to fix this?
system.app
April 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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tobiasfenster.io
What is happening in AL-Go specifically and DevOps for #msdyn365bc generally? @freddydk.bsky.social joined #WindowOnTechnology for an episode where we explore that and also look at the current state and future direction of containers for BC. Find it at podcast.tobiasfenster.io/2032825/epis...
March 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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aj.kauffmann.nl
How many times did you count lines in an AL code function to get to the line reported by the debugger?

Change the way how line numbers are displayed to relative, place the cursor on the procedure line and you'll easily find the line number you are looking for!

#msdyn365bc
February 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
davmac1.bsky.social
I have a weird problem with New-BCContainer.
When I run it, it corrupts my system files and I have to do a repair for the PC to function.
This has happened on 2 different Windows 11 PCs.
Anyone else having this problem?
February 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM