Welcome to Business Central resources for partners

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The 2024 release wave 2 launch event for Business Central was kicked off on October 8, 2024. You can now access over 40 on-demand sessions at aka.ms/BCYouTube.

Are you a Microsoft partner working with Business Central and looking for relevant resources? Find everything you need in this article and remember to bookmark aka.ms/BCAll.

Hot topics right now

• Register for the next Business Central Launch Event or watch videos from the last event: aka.ms/BCLE
• Subscribe to the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central channel on YouTube: aka.ms/BCYouTube
• AIM to the future with Microsoft! Move your customers to the cloud with confidence with the AIM program: aka.ms/AIMforPartners

Latest release and updates

• Business Central release plan: aka.ms/BCReleasePlan
• Major updates: aka.ms/BCUpdates
• Minor updates: aka.ms/BCLastMinorUpdate
• Missing a feature? Post or vote for ideas on: aka.ms/BCIdeas
• Alert Microsoft on an upcoming regulatory feature: aka.ms/BCAlerts
• Optional features that are now mandatory https://aka.ms/BCFeatureMgmt
• Where is Business Central available? aka.ms/BCCountries

Stay up to date

• Watch the what's new launch event sessions: aka.ms/BCLE
• Join the office hours calls: aka.ms/BCOfficeHours
• Find on-demand recordings of office hours calls: aka.ms/BCOfficeHoursRecordings
• Subscribe to the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central channel on YouTube: aka.ms/BCYouTube

Social and blogs

• Stay tuned about what’s going on in the #MSDyn365BC community: twitter.com/MSDYN365BC (Use #BCALHelp on Twitter for quick hints on how to do things)
• Follow us on LinkedIn: aka.ms/BCLinkedIn
• Be a part of the community for Business Central: aka.ms/BCCommunity
• Blog for IT professionals: cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/
• Blog for decision makers: cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm
• Join the Business Central development group on Viva Engage (Yammer): aka.ms/BCYammer (Learn more)

Partner readiness and programs

• Get started as a partner (reselling Business Central): aka.ms/BCReseller
• Essential partner resources (marketing material): aka.ms/BCPartnerPortal
• Browse all Business Central learning courses: aka.ms/BCLearn
• Supported countries/regions, regions, and languages: aka.ms/BCCountries
• Join the conversation on Yammer for partners: aka.ms/BCYammer (Learn more)
• Online or in-person training and coaching for Business Central. Contact an ISV Development Center: aka.ms/ISVDevCenter
• The Universal Code Initiative: aka.ms/BCUniversalCode
• Get technical to land large customer implementations and close deals: aka.ms/BCConcierge
• The AIM program: aka.ms/AIMforPartners
• The Microsoft coordinated #BCTalent offerings help partners with recruiting, training, and coaching services: aka.ms/BCTalent

Go to market

• Business Central homepage: dynamics.microsoft.com/business-central/overview/
• Try Business Central for free (30-day trial): go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=2143349&clcid=0x409
• Business Central customer stories: aka.ms/BCCustomerStories
• Discover useful resources for partners: aka.ms/BCPartnerPortal
• Transact capability for Business Central Apps on Microsoft AppSource: aka.ms/BCAppTransact
• Find the capability guide: aka.ms/BCCapabilities
• Find Dynamics 365 icons and guidelines on usage: aka.ms/Dynamics365Icons

Customer onboarding and resources

• Discover all Business Central apps on AppSource: aka.ms/BCAppSource
• Get Business Central on your mobile devices: aka.ms/BusinessCentralApp
• Get Business Central installable app on your desktop: aka.ms/BCPWA
• Learn about onboarding experiences in Business Central: aka.ms/BCOnboarding
• Productivity tips: aka.ms/BCProductivity
• Keyboard shortcuts: aka.ms/BCKeys
• Download the keyboard shortcut PDF: aka.ms/BCKeyboardShortcutsPDF

AI innovation and Copilot

Copilot in Business Central 101

• Pitch deck for Copilot in Business Central: aka.ms/bcCopilotPitchDeck
• Learn how to get your free demo environment at aka.ms/CDX, or showcase Copilot using prebuilt, click-through demos at aka.ms/bcSalesTools
• Copilot in Business Central - showcase video: aka.ms/BC-AI-Sizzle
• Copilot in Business Central playlist on YouTube: aka.ms/BC-Copilot-Videos​
• Copilot in Business Central blog: aka.ms/bc-ai​
• Sales Order Agent preview video: aka.ms/bcagents
• Copilot in Business Central FAQ: About Copilot
• Dynamics Communities interview with Mike Morton: dynamicscommunities.com

Copilot in Business Central for developers

• Extend Copilot in Business Central: aka.ms/bcAIdevDocs
• How-to guide for extending Copilot in Business Central: Developing generative AI experiences​
• Business Central under the hood episode 1 - Developing AI: Business Central under the hood series (on YouTube)​

Reporting and business intelligence

• Get started with reporting: aka.ms/BCReporting
• Excel layout samples: aka.ms/BCExcelSamples
• Business Central and Power BI: aka.ms/BCPBI

Power Platform

• Business Central and Power BI: aka.ms/BCPBI
• Business Central and Power Automate: aka.ms/BCAutomate
• Business Central and Power Apps: aka.ms/BCPApps
• [Prototype] Low code sync of Business Central entities to Dataverse: aka.ms/bc2dataverse

Migrating from on-premises to cloud (online)

• Discover assets for transitioning Dynamics GP, Dynamics NAV, Dynamics SL, Business Central on-premises customers to Business Central online: aka.ms/BCMigrations
• Use migration tooling: Migrate Data
• Community group for questions and information about managing migrations to Business Central online: aka.ms/BCCloudMigrationYammer (Learn more)
• AIM to the future with Microsoft! Move your customers to the cloud with confidence with the AIM program: aka.ms/AIMforPartners

Getting support

• Managing technical support for customers: Manage Technical Support
• Test network connectivity for Business Central: aka.ms/BCCP

Developing for Business Central in general

• Get started with developing apps: aka.ms/BCPublisher
• Business Central technology samples: aka.ms/BCTech
• Business Central open source sample apps: aka.ms/BCSamples
• Maintain your apps: Maintain Your App
• Use the GitHub forum to post questions about Visual Studio Code and AL Language to the community and Microsoft experts: github.com/microsoft/al/issues
• Preview for next major update: aka.ms/BCMajorUpdates
• Ask your questions related to app development in the App Development group on Yammer: aka.ms/BCYammer (Learn more)
• Get the latest preview version and give feedback: aka.ms/Collaborate (learn how you join relevant engagements here)
• Build solutions that link to Business Central mobile app: aka.ms/BCProtocol
• Troubleshoot issues with Business Central: aka.ms/BCTroubleshoot
• Browse the images/icons available for the action bar: aka.ms/BCIcons
• Find the documentation for the latest Business Central APIs to access your Business data: aka.ms/BCAPI
• Learn how to develop your own API to use Business Central data in other products: aka.ms/BCCustomAPI

Developing apps for AppSource

• AppSource marketing checklist: aka.ms/AppSourceGo

• AppSource technical checklist: aka.ms/CheckBeforeYouSubmit

• AppSource technical FAQ: aka.ms/TechValidationFAQ

• Set up DevOps for your AppSource apps: aka.ms/AL-Go-AppSource

• Ask your question related to AppSource in the AppSource group on Yammer: aka.ms/BCYammer (New to Yammer?)

• Development of a localization app: aka.ms/BusinessCentralLocApps

• Transact capability for Business Central Apps on Microsoft AppSource: aka.ms/BCAppTransact

Developing customer specific solutions

• Set up DevOps for your customer projects: aka.ms/AL-Go-PTE

Telemetry and performance

• App performance documentation: aka.ms/BCPerformance
• Telemetry documentation: aka.ms/BCTelemetry
• Telemetry samples: aka.ms/BCTelemetrySamples
• Analyze environment telemetry data with Power BI: aka.ms/BCTelemetryReport
• Analyze app telemetry data with Power BI: aka.ms/BCTelemetry-Isv-App

Security, privacy, and compliance

• Security and Privacy documentation: aka.ms/BCSecurity
• Security in Business Central: aka.ms/BCSecurity
• Databases and backups: aka.ms/bcbackups
• Compliance overview: aka.ms/BCCompliance
• Application compliance: aka.ms/BCAppCompliance

Licensing and pricing

• Business Central licensing guide
• Business Central Universal Code Initiative

Shopify

• Shopify start: aka.ms/BCShopifyStart
• Shopify FAQ: aka.ms/BCShopifyFAQ
• Shopify consultant: aka.ms/BCShopifyConsultant

Events for partners

• Business Central Launch Event (aka.ms/BCLE)
• Directions NA
• Directions EMEA
• Directions Asia
• Business Central TechDays
• Days of Knowledge (Nordic)
• Days of Knowledge (Central)
• Days of Knowledge (UK)

Events for customers

• Business Central Launch Event (aka.ms/BCLE)
• DynamicsMinds
• UG Summit
• DynamicsCon