Category: Microsoft Dynamics 365

User account does NOT have permission to run docker commands

On Windows systems, if you receive a permission error when trying to run Docker commands inside a Windows container, it may be because the user account running the Docker command doesn’t have the necessary permissions to access the Docker daemon.

Business Central Performance Profiler

If a business process takes longer than expected, your administrator can use the Performance Profiler page to record a snapshot of the process. While recording, the profiler monitors all of the apps that are involved in the process.

Docker: You cannot sign in due to a technical issue. Contact your system administrator.

Docker: You cannot sign in due to a technical issue. Contact your system administrator.

Incorrect URL: http:///BC/SignIn

Correct URL: http:///BC/SignIn?tenant=default

Read Data from Dynamics 365 Business Central Replica Database (Data Access Intent)

One beautiful thing about Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is that it allows you to have a read-only replica of the Azure SQL database and use that replica database to perform read-only queries to retrieve data. Queries to retrieve data running on the replica database, your main database instance will run smoothly without any performance impacts.

OAuth – Part 05 – Service-to-Service Integration and Task Scheduler

In Basic authentication, we used an actual user to connect to BC, but with the new S2S authentication we are not using an actual user and Scheduled tasks must be created and executed in the context of a licensed user. Therefore API requests cannot schedule a background task. It is simple as that.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 release wave 1 (BC20) SaaS preview environment is available.

Creating a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 preview environment is now possible. You need to go to the Admin Center of the Business Central tenant and create a Sandbox and select the version. Make sure to select 20.x.xxxxx.x (Preview) and click Create. To remember, Microsoft will sometimes remove these preview environments without …

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OAuth – Part 03 – Logic App, OAuth and Business Central

This is the 3rd blog post of the OAuth series, and I have already completed the numbers 2 and 4. Once I complete this blog post today (Hopefully), I only have one to write. I will try to complete that one also within next week when I find some time during the night. I have …

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OAuth – Part 04 – Understanding Service Principal

In my previous blog post, we have gone ahead and registered an application in Azure Active Directory and then create an application account in Business Central. As the last step, we have granted permission from Business Central.

In this blog post, I’m trying to briefly explain what we did in little bit more detailed way.

OAuth – Part 02 – Configure Service to Service Authentication

In this blog post, I’m going to take you through the steps required to complete the OAuth client credentials flow for Business Central. Check this link if you want to refer to the official post from Microsoft.

How to get Business Central Environment Related Attributes?

If you want to get the details about the environment you don’t have to reinvent the wheel, you can simply use the standard codeunit Microsoft has introduced. If you look into the codeunit 457 “Environment Information”, you will see there are many procedures that fetch attributes concerning the environment of the service on which the tenant is hosted. Codeunit 457 is part of the System Application.Source.