163

Backup and restore

Users make mistakes in their daily work and it is not unusual for a member of the finance team to upload a lot of wrong data or delete data. Running year end without completing all the data changes is another common mistake. Not being able to perform an on demand backup prior to performing a d...

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Category: Tenant Administration (268)

STATUS DETAILS
Completed
Ideas Administrator
We have decided to deliver this idea and make it available with Business Central 2020 release wave 2.  
Learn more about what's new and planned for this feature in the release plan here:   
 
Your help was greatly appreciated, 
Dmitry Chadayev
PM, Microsoft 
136

Automation API call for installing Apps from AppSource

We have an automation app for installing custom apps but we still need to manually add apps that are published via AppSource manually. In order to be able to provision Business Central for particular verticals or using a configuration type approach could we have a call which allows us to specify...

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Category: Tenant Administration (268)

STATUS DETAILS
Completed
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for this suggestion! We are reviewing this idea and considering it for one of the future releases.

Best regards,
Business Central Team
128

Option to update AppSource apps as part of minor updates

When major updates are deployed by Microsoft all 3. party apps deployed form AppSource is updated as part of the BC major update, but when minor updates are deployed, 3. party apps are not updated. This can block an minor update because some apps need to be updated before the minor update can com...

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Category: Tenant Administration (268)

STATUS DETAILS
Planned
2023 Release Wave 1
124

Add Unpublish to the Automation API

It would be nice if unpublishing extensions was included in the Business Central Automation API so that the old apps can be unpublished after the new extensions is installed.

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Category: Tenant Administration (268)

STATUS DETAILS
New
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for this suggestion! Currently this is not on our roadmap. We are tracking this idea and if it gathers more votes and comments we will consider it in the future. Best regards, Business Central Team
121

Please notify us of minor environment upgrades in advance.

Currently, major version upgrades are notified in advance. However, minor version upgrades can also make Extensions unusable, so it's helpful to let us know in advance.

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Category: Tenant Administration (268)

STATUS DETAILS
Completed
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for this suggestion!
We are delivering a solution for this idea starting with 18.2 release of Business Central. Find out more at https://aka.ms/bcupdates 

Best regards,
Business Central Team
116

IP addresses or hostnames of environment

We are integrating with an on premise solution and we're looking to lockdown the traffic coming from BC to a specific set of IP addresses or hostnames. We have written customization that makes a web service request from BC SaaS to an On Prem server. The Security Team who are responsible for the o...

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Category: Tenant Administration (268)

STATUS DETAILS
Completed
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for this suggestion! We have introduced the Dynamics365BusinessCentral Service Tag to address this idea. See service tags list here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/service-tags-overview

Best regards,
Business Central team
116

Grant user permissions/user groups based on Azure AD security groups for Business Central SaaS

In Business Central on-prem we can manage user permissions based on Azure AD security groups, but in the SaaS version this is not an option. If a tenant has many users it is a very time consuming task to add permissions to each user. The current process is to add a BC license to users then update...

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3 Comments

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Category: Tenant Administration (268)

STATUS DETAILS
Planned
2023 Release Wave 1
Ideas Administrator

Thank you for your feedback. We released this feature as part of the functionality in Manage user permissions using security groups.

Please refer to the following link for more information:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/release-plan/2023wave1/smb/dynamics365-business-central/manage-user-permissions-using-security-groups

 

Sincerely,
Business Central Team


112

Update Log and Notifications

It would be very beneficial to have a notification when BC is updated with a link to a web page detailing the update. Hot fixes are being pushed in without any notification and if they fix or break things knowledge of a change would be a great help in troubleshooting issues. PS I've tried to su...

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Category: Tenant Administration (268)

STATUS DETAILS
Under Review
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for your feedback. This is a great suggestion! We will consider this in our roadmap.
It feels like new admin center is covering the requirements outlined in this request:

Also cumulative update (minor updates for BC) that are coming up contain KB article explaining all the bits that are included in minor update. 
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Sincerely,​
Ivan Koletic​
PM, Microsoft â€‹

111

Setting SaveValueToDatabasePromptly for Saas Environment

This setting revert BC to the previous behaviour disabling Modify on every field modification.

This setting is available only for OnPrem Environment

The request is to make this available for Saas too

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4 Comments

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Category: Tenant Administration (268)

STATUS DETAILS
Completed
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for your valuable feedback. We have decided to deliver this idea and make it available with Business Central 2022 wave 2 update 1 (version 21.1).  
This will be available as a Feature Management switch and in the meantime it will remain OFF for upgraded environments.
 
Your help was appreciated,  
Blazej Kotelko
PM, Microsoft  


101

New Option to re-start an environment from admin center

The idea is to be able to stop and start an envionment from the admin center, as before we using the administration console with the instances. Maybe is posible one task or one extension is blocking or going slow down the system and be great to stop it. Now if some thing is wrong the unique solu...

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4 Comments

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Category: Tenant Administration (268)

STATUS DETAILS
Completed
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for your idea! You can now restart an environment from the Manage Sessions page in the admin center.

Kind regards,
Business Central Team