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...
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...
Best regards,
Business Central Team
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...
We are reviewing it as a candiate for one of our future releases.
Kind regards,
Business Central Team
Automation API for publishing Per tenant app for Next Major/Minor version
The upload extension API doesn't support for uploading the extension for Next Major/Minor version. It supports only the immediate installation.
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Business Central Team
Automation API Get Extension to return Patch and Build version numbers as well as Major & Minor
For the API Get Extension Call detailed at the link below can the return include the build and patch version numbers as well as the major & minor please. Without these extra details, it will cause lots of partners to have to revise their logic to only effectively use the major & minor, our suppo...
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Your help is greatly appreciated,
Henrik Westergaard Hansen
PM, Microsoft
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.
We are considering this idea for our future releases, pelase continue adding votes to help us with assigning the right priority.
Best regards,
Business Central Team
Update Apps
Many customer are scared to update apps themselves since the procedure today is that you first have to uninstall the app and then reinstall it. The result is that they call support for help, and since this most often have to be done outside office hours it is both expensive and time consuming ...
This functionality is now shipped with Wave 1 2020 release of Business Central.
Find out more details here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/tenant-admin-center-manage-apps
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Business Central Team
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...
Thank you for your feedback. Currently this is not in our roadmap; however, we are tracking it and if we get more feedback and votes, we may consider it in the future.
Sincerely,
Dmitry Chadayev
PM, Microsoft
Select Azure data center/region for a new Business Central SaaS production instance
It is amazing that we can create multiple Business Central production instances with a specific country release, but we also need the ability to select the Azure data center or region where a new production instance should run, so we can support where the primary users are located. Users working ...
Automation API access to Extension Deployment Status
The Automation API allows you to upload an extension but does not give you a return of the status of that upload and install. Could we please have access to the deployment status of the extension, an API call that returns the contents of the Deployment Status table for the specified extension w...
Thank you for your feedback. This feature is already released. But it was missing from the ToC in docs. Docs will be updated shortly.
GET /microsoft/automation/v1.0/$metadata will show all APIs. Use extensionDeploymentStatus API to get status.
Sincerely,
Henrik Westergaard Hansen
PM, Microsoft
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