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The business central tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and related ERP topics, including migration from Dynamics NAV, GP, and SL, AI and Copilot capabilities, security patching for critical vulnerabilities like CVE-2026-55944, and performance optimization for high-volume transactions. Discussions also explore real-world use cases in maritime, manufacturing, distribution, and EPC project management, with a focus on technical challenges such as AL development, data consistency, and system integration. The content reflects both enterprise IT planning and practical troubleshooting for administrators and developers working with Business Central in cloud and on-premises environments.
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    Business Central Expense Agent Plans Global Rollout With Seven New Languages in October 2026

    Microsoft's Expense Agent for Dynamics 365 Business Central is due for another language update. Roadmap item 573253, posted September 30, 2026, says the agent will support "all countries/regions where Business Central is available." It also adds seven languages: Czech, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic...
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    Business Central Expense Agent to Flag Natural-Language Policy Issues for Approvers

    Expense policies tend to break down in the gaps: business class is allowed "only on long flights," client dinners must be "reasonable," and the preferred hotel is required "unless there's a good reason." People can interpret that kind of rule. A fixed numeric threshold can't. Microsoft is now...
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    Business Central Expense Agent Filters Project Choices by Employee Assignment in 2026

    Microsoft plans to change how the Business Central Expense Agent web app decides which projects an employee can choose. According to AI at Work Roadmap entry 573259, the web app will show only the projects or tasks that employees are assigned to as resources. Anyone who has watched a technician...
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    Business Central Expense Agent to Calculate VAT With Accountant Review in 2026

    Microsoft's AI at Work roadmap has a new entry for Dynamics 365 Business Central. It says the Expense Agent will calculate and report VAT (value-added tax) from employee expense reports. That covers one of the most tedious parts of expense handling: pulling the tax out of a pile of receipts and...
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    Business Central Adds Vendor-Specific Number Series for Self-Billing Invoices

    Microsoft has added a new Dynamics 365 Business Central roadmap item, ID 573307, titled "Finance - Vendor specific number series for Self-billing Invoices." It lets each vendor in a self-billing arrangement have its own number series. The roadmap lists the feature as In development, with preview...
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    Business Central MCP Custom Data Queries Let AI Agents Access Data Without APIs

    Microsoft is adding something to Business Central that integration developers have wanted for a long time: an AI agent can now ask for data even when nobody has built an API for it. Microsoft's AI at Work roadmap lists a new item, ID 573312, titled "Run data queries with MCP Server" under...
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    Business Central 29 Extends Report Layout Lifecycle Statuses to AppSource and Extension Layouts

    Business Central administrators who have been asking for one switch to stop users picking a half-finished invoice layout are getting closer. Microsoft's AI at Work roadmap now lists feature ID 573320, "Control the lifecycle of all report layouts," as Launched. The entry covers Dynamics 365...
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    Business Central 29 Word Layouts Add Shared Company Information Dataitem

    Almost every Business Central document report needs the same boilerplate somewhere: company name, address, maybe bank details or a VAT number. Report developers have spent years adding the same company fields to dataset after dataset. Microsoft's 2026 release wave 2 aims to cut down that...
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    Business Central 29 Financial Reports Add G/L Account Tracing in Preview

    Microsoft is adding general ledger account tracing to Dynamics 365 Business Central’s financial-reporting tools, with capabilities to identify uncategorized accounts, follow account usage and calculations, and preview definitions before publishing. The feature targets report authors who need to...
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    Business Central 29 Report Themes Add Scoped PDF Branding Defaults

    Dynamics 365 Business Central’s new report themes capability is aimed at making PDF documents look like they belong to the same organization—even when they come from different reports. Microsoft describes a composable-layout model in which administrators can apply themes and set defaults...
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    Business Central 29 Adds Data-Driven AL Tests and Shared Lifecycle Hooks

    Microsoft is bringing reusable test data and shared lifecycle behavior to Dynamics 365 Business Central’s AL testing framework. The feature, Build extensible and data-driven AL test suites, is intended to let developers parameterize tests from reusable data sources and attach common setup...
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    Business Central 29 ALTool Adds CLI Test Automation and JSON Results for CI/CD

    Business Central developers have spent years running automated tests through workarounds: containers, PowerShell helper modules, test pages in a browser, or a person clicking Run. Microsoft says ALTool can now handle that work itself. Roadmap item 573334 says ALTool can compile, deploy and run...
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    Business Central 29 Shopify Connector Syncs HS Codes and Country of Origin

    Business Central's Shopify connector now has a switch for one of the duller jobs in cross-border ecommerce: keeping each product's customs code and country of origin the same in your ERP and your storefront. Microsoft's roadmap entry 573344 describes how Business Central now syncs tariff numbers...
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    Business Central 29 Direct Transfers Add Route-Level Posting and Warehouse Pick Support

    Microsoft has fixed a long-running annoyance in Dynamics 365 Business Central inventory handling. Direct transfer orders can now be posted from source locations that use outbound warehouse handling. Admins also get a new per-route switch that decides how each direct transfer posts. Microsoft's...
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    Business Central 29 AL MCP Server: Dynamic Workspaces and Headless CI/CD Access

    Microsoft is changing how Business Central's AL MCP server starts up. Until now an AI coding agent effectively had to tell the server which project it was working on before the server would launch. A new roadmap item, ID 573348, titled "Configure AL MCP workspaces dynamically," removes that...
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    Business Central 29 ALTool Adds Project-Specific Compiler Diagnostic Logs for Automated Builds

    Microsoft is adding structured, project-specific compiler diagnostic logs to ALTool workspace builds for Dynamics 365 Business Central. The change gives development teams a way to retain build findings for automated analysis and code-quality tracking, rather than treating compilation as a simple...
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    Business Central 29 AL Interfaces: Default Methods and RequiredPending End AS0066 Upgrade Breaks

    For about six years, Business Central developers have lived with one awkward rule about AL interfaces: once you publish one, you can't add a method to it. Microsoft is now loosening that rule. A new development feature, "Evolve AL interfaces with default implementations," lets interface methods...
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    Business Central 29 Adds Inventory Put-Aways and Picks for Subcontracting

    Business Central has a new warehouse option for subcontracting. Manufacturers on Dynamics 365 Business Central who use simple, order-by-order warehousing can now run subcontracted work through the same inventory put-aways and inventory picks they already use for ordinary purchases and transfers...
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    Business Central AL for VS Code Auto-Downloads .NET 10 and Uses VS Code Sign-In

    Microsoft says it is removing two common setup chores from Business Central development in Visual Studio Code: installing the .NET runtime by hand, and signing in through prompts that are separate from VS Code's own sign-in. Roadmap item 573356 is titled "Dynamics 365 Business Central...
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    Business Central BC29 Restricts Global Symbol Downloads to app.json Minor Versions

    Microsoft has added a Business Central roadmap entry (ID 573357) that tackles a familiar problem for AL developers: you restore symbols and find a dependency has quietly moved to a newer minor release. The item is titled "Dynamics 365 Business Central: Development - Restrict global symbol...