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 (247)

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 (247)

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
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 (247)

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 (247)

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
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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Category: Tenant Administration (247)

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 (247)

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
90

Partners to be able to start Job Queue Entries

Currently if a Partner is to setup a Job Queue Entry it needs a user of the tenant to start this. This causes frustration with the Users because we need to ask them to get those started just for testing and also if there's an error they need to start it again.

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Category: Tenant Administration (247)

STATUS DETAILS
Completed
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for this suggestion! We are planning to deliver on this idea with our coming release. Partners will be able to create and run the Jobs once, to validate that they can run without issues, then they will pass it to a licensed user to start the job recurrently. Find out more here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/delegated-admin#restricted-access-to-business-central-as-delegated-administrator

Best regards,
Dmitry Chadayev
Business Central Team
76

Access permissions in connection to multiple productions environments.

Dear Microsoft, We have several customers with multiple Production environments, which means that users who have a Business Central License, can see all 3 or 4 production environments when they try to login. Right now, we are forced to import all the users and manually disable the user on the p...

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Category: Tenant Administration (247)

STATUS DETAILS
Completed
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for this suggestion! You can now grant environment access to an AAD Security Group from the Environment page in the admin center.

Best regards, 
Business Central Team
72

Updates

When updates are planned (all of them, not just the big ones) it would be nice if you would let us know when they are scheduled and what the planned changes are so we aren't caught by surprise with the changes.. We are finding that the updates cause MANY more problems than they fix. Example - on...

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Category: Tenant Administration (247)

STATUS DETAILS
Completed
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for this suggestion! We are considering adding this capability for our future updates. 

In the meantime you can get an overview of the most notable changes by following these links: 

Best regards,
Business Central Team
69

Non Global Admin role to get access to BC Administration Center

We would like to be able to give the people who manage our Business Central Tenant access to the Business Central Administration Center, but we cannot because they are not Global Admins in our network. It would be nice if another role like the "Dynamics 365 Administrator" role in Azure gave them...

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Category: Tenant Administration (247)

STATUS DETAILS
Completed
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for your feedback. This is a great suggestion! We are adding it to our roadmap.
Your help is greatly appreciated, 
Dmitry Chadayev,
PM, Microsoft