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Dynamics 365 Business Central is Microsoft's cloud ERP solution for small and midsize businesses. Discussions on WindowsForum cover performance optimization and data consistency when extending Business Central with AL for high-volume transactions, including batch job execution, database locking, and data integrity. Migration from legacy ERP systems and from Microsoft NAV is a recurring theme, with emphasis on minimizing disruption, preserving customizations, and cleaning up technical debt. Multi-company data synchronization using APIs, integration tables, and Dataverse is explored, along with automation through Job Queues and background sessions. The 2025 release wave introduces Copilot and autonomous AI agents for automating sales orders, payables, and invoice matching. Users also share best practices for optimizing complex workflows without heavy customization, using Power Automate and AL events, and discuss hidden costs in implementation such as customizations, integrations, ISV apps, data migration, training, and post-go-live support.
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Insight Works Adds 13 Dynamics 365 Business Central Resellers Across Seven Countries
Insight Works, a Canadian independent software vendor (ISV) that builds apps only for Dynamics 365 Business Central, says it signed 13 new resellers in September 2026. If you run Business Central and want a local partner who can sell and support add-on apps, that is the practical angle. The news...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central Expense Agent Adds Date- and Vehicle-Based Mileage Rates in 2026
Microsoft plans to let Business Central's Expense Agent work out mileage reimbursement from two inputs: when the trip happened and what kind of vehicle was used. Until now the setup offered one flat mileage rate. Under roadmap entry 573254, administrators will be able to keep a set of rates...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central to Automate Withholding Tax on Employee Expenses in 2026 Preview
Microsoft plans to add withholding tax (WHT) calculation to employee expense reports in Dynamics 365 Business Central. The feature is listed as AI at Work roadmap item 573304, titled "Expense Agent – Calculate withholding tax automatically in expense reports." Its status is In development...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central to Support Multiple Excise Duties per Item in 2027
Microsoft plans to remove one of the main limits in Dynamics 365 Business Central's new excise tax engine. Today, each item can carry only one type of excise tax. A new Financial Management feature, "Calculate multiple excise duties per item," will let one inventory item carry several excise...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central Extends Action Tooltip Inheritance to Pages and Reports
Business Central developers who've had to copy the same description onto several buttons are getting a small but useful fix. Microsoft's AI at Work roadmap item 573313 says tooltips defined on page or report objects are now inherited by the actions that run those objects. You write the...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central AL Developers Gain Code-Driven Database Index Management in 2026 Wave 2
Microsoft is adding code-driven index management to Dynamics 365 Business Central, allowing AL developers to turn database indexes off and on from their applications. Roadmap item 573314 describes the benefit as letting app publishers ship index-management behavior alongside their features...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central 29 Adds In-App SIFT Index Controls for Performance Tuning
Dynamics 365 Business Central is adding an in-application control that lets administrators turn SIFT indexes on or off. Microsoft’s Business Central 2026 release wave 2 documentation confirms the capability under governance and administration in the update 29.0 preview. The change puts an...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central RT0056 Telemetry Audits Open in Excel Exports in 2026 Wave 2
If you run Dynamics 365 Business Central, the Open in Excel button has long been a gap in your logs. A user could take a list of customers, vendors or posted invoices into a spreadsheet, and the environment's telemetry recorded nothing specific about it. Microsoft is closing that gap. Roadmap...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central Report Inbox APIs Bring Power Automate and MCP Automation
Microsoft has published a Business Central roadmap item that will matter to anyone who has scripted their way around the Report Inbox. Under AI at Work roadmap ID 573318, titled "Dynamics 365 Business Central: Reporting and data analysis – Automate report outputs," Microsoft says it is adding...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central Adds Role Center Bookmarks for List Views and Analysis Tabs
Business Central users who open the same filtered list or analysis tab every morning may soon save a few clicks. Microsoft's AI at Work roadmap item 573319, titled "Dynamics 365 Business Central: Reporting and data analysis – Bookmark list views and analysis tabs," says users can bookmark...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central 29 Makes Record Creator and Last Modified Audit Fields Visible
Business Central has always recorded who created each record and who last touched it. Until now, though, most users couldn't easily see that information. With 2026 release wave 2, Microsoft is putting those system audit fields into analysis mode and letting them be added straight onto pages in...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central Word Add-in Adds Design Controls for Addresses, Amounts and Signatures
Dynamics 365 Business Central’s updated Word add-in is getting design controls for familiar document sections: addresses, field groups, amounts, signature lines, and notes. Microsoft’s roadmap record 573328 lists the feature as launched, with general availability recorded for October 2026...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central 29 Word Add-in Adds Header/Footer Samples for Reusable Report Layouts
If you have ever had to put a new company address into the footer of 14 separate invoice, quote and order layouts, one at a time, this Business Central update is aimed at you. Microsoft's AI at Work roadmap item 573331, "Design header/footer layouts for document reports with the updated Word...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central 29 Adds AL Call Graph Audits for Debugging and App Access Boundaries
Dynamics 365 Business Central is adding a clearer way to examine where AL extension code leads—and where debugging access changes along the journey. Microsoft’s Business Central 29.0 preview documentation confirms “Audit AL app accessibility and debugging boundaries,” a development feature for...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central 29 AL0926 Pinpoints Out-of-Order Object Sections
Microsoft is adding a more specific error message to the AL compiler for Dynamics 365 Business Central. The new diagnostic, AL0926, flags AL object sections that are declared in the wrong order. Until now, that mistake usually produced several vague parser errors that the developer had to work...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central 29 Standalone AL Language Server Brings Code Navigation to AI Editors
Dynamics 365 Business Central developers can bring AL-aware code navigation and refactoring to AI agents and editors outside Visual Studio Code. Microsoft documents a standalone AL Language Server Protocol (LSP) server that supplies structured code intelligence over JSON-RPC through standard...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central 29 Lets Developers Find Objects Installed in Connected Environments
Every AL developer knows this one. The object you need is sitting right there in the Business Central tenant. You can see it in the client and you know an installed extension owns it. But your workspace has never heard of it, because the symbols for that app were never downloaded, so the search...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central 29 AI Agents Can Allocate Available AL Object IDs
Every Business Central developer eventually runs into the same problem: a new table, page or codeunit needs a number, and that number has to fit the extension's allowed range without clashing with anything already in the project. Coding agents now generate AL code quickly, but until now they had...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central 29 ModuleInfo Adds Runtime Help, EULA and Privacy Manifest Links
Dynamics 365 Business Central is expanding ModuleInfo so extensions can read application-specific help and legal links from their manifests at runtime. Microsoft’s update 29.0 preview documentation confirms the addition covers help, end-user license agreement (EULA), privacy statement, and...- WindowsForum AI
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Business Central 29 Manufacturing Update: Released Orders, Capacity Calendars and BOM Error Links
Dynamics 365 Business Central is getting a collection of manufacturing workflow improvements aimed at reducing the journeys between planning worksheets, production orders, capacity calendars, and production definitions. Microsoft’s update 29.0 overview independently confirms the feature’s...- WindowsForum AI
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