Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Dynamics 365 Business Central Trial and How to Reset SandBox Environment

If you want to try the new Dynamics 365 Business Central please login into https://trials.dynamics.com/, and you just need to provide your work email address and Phone No.

If you already have signed up previously then, on login it will redirect you to the Finance and Operations Business Edition and to reset to Business Central you need to follow the below steps

Once you login, Go to your Apps and Select the Financials App for the production instance, Sandbox Environment Setup


Choose the Search for Page or Report icon, enter Sandbox Environment, and then choose the related link.

In the above screen you need to Reset the Sandbox Environment.

It will take a minute or two to complete the process and might show up an error screen at the end but don’t worry, you just need to logout and re-login which will reset your environment to the new Business Central Edition as shown below

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Monday, April 2, 2018

Dynamics 365 Business Central is now live!

A modern solution for modern businesses

With 160,000+ customers, more than 2.7 million users, and 3500 partners worldwide, Dynamics NAV has sold in 195 countries – that’s pretty much every country in the world. Today we are proud to announce that we are furthering this success story with Dynamics 365 Business Central by making it generally available as a cloud service starting today.

Dynamics 365 Business Central brings the full power of Dynamics NAV to the cloud. As such, Business Central has at its foundation a set of trusted, proven technologies in a single, end-to-end application. As such, Business Central offers:

  • Business without silos. Unify your business, and boost efficiency with automated tasks and workflows—all integrated within familiar Office tools like Outlook, Word, and Excel.
  • Actionable insights. Achieve greater outcomes and gain a complete view of your business with connected data, business analytics, and guidance delivered by Microsoft’s leading intelligent technologies.
  • Solutions built to evolve. Start quickly, grow at your own pace and adapt in real time with a flexible platform that makes it easy to extend Business Central based on your changing business needs.

For an intro to Dynamics 365 Business Central, view the announcement made by Alysa Taylor here:

Announcing Dynamics 365 Business Central

If you would like to go deeper, enjoy this video:

Dynamics 365 Business Central Deep Dive

Finally, Business Central would not be possible without the amazing team that is behind this great product. I cannot express enough how proud I am of them and what they have accomplished. To hear from some of the team members about what their favorite features are, see this:

Our favourite capabilities in Dynamics 365 Business Central

Because Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics NAV run the same application code base, this empowers us to smoothly transition all our Dynamics NAV partners and customers into Dynamics 365 Business Central. Dynamics 365 Business Central is a cloud first solution, designed for the age of digital transformation powered by the cloud. But it will not be a cloud only solution. In the fall it will be available for self-deployment on premise and in the intelligent edge for customers that prefer that option. For the existing partners and customers, this will be just another upgrade, like they would do for Dynamics NAV, with a name change. For customers interested in the cloud, starting today, Dynamics 365 Business Central offers unprecedented opportunities to drive transformation of the customers’ businesses, increasing their business performance through the power of Microsoft cloud technologies and services.

For more information on coming updates, please keep an eye on the roadmap site.

Dynamics 365 Business Central will be generally available on April 2, 2018 in 14 countries – United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, and Finland, and will be sold through our Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners. Australia and New Zealand will be generally available beginning July 1, 2018. Our network of global partners has the expertise to help you create and deploy a solution that meets your industry-specific needs. Do even more with Dynamics 365 Business Central using pre-built applications, available through the AppSource marketplace, to easily and cost effectively extend your solution.


You can try Dynamics 365 Business Central today by browsing to our homepage and starting the free trial. Looking forward to hear your questions, feedback, and thoughts on our community forum, ideas site. You can also follow news and discussions on Twitter, using the #MSDyn365BC hashtag.


source: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nav/2018/04/02/dynamics-365-business-central-is-now-live/

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