Troubleshoot connectivity for Business Central

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01/09/2024

APPLIES TO: Business Central Online

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Business Central Online includes the Troubleshooting Connectivity page that you can use to identify problems with your connection to the online service. There are several things that affect connectivity to Business Central, like the firewall settings of your network or domain name service configuration. The page lets you run a list of checks that diagnose common Business Central connectivity issues. You can use the information to try to fix the problems yourself, or pass it on to your support representative.

Note

The Troubleshooting Connectivity page doesn't test network performance or reliability, like the speed of your connection. It only verifies connectivity to different resources.

Start the connectivity check

Open an Internet browser.
In the address, enter the URL that you use to open Business Central and add /connectivity at the end.

For example, if you use https://businesscentral.dynamics.com, then enter:
```
https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/connectivity
```
Or, if the URL includes the tenant ID, like https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/aaaabbbb-0000-cccc-1111-dddd2222eeee, then you'd enter:
```
https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/aaaabbbb-0000-cccc-1111-dddd2222eeee/connectivity
```
On the Troubleshooting Connectivity page, choose Start check.

A series of checks is run, and the result of each check is shown:
- indicates the check succeeded.
- indicates the check failed. Review the message below the check for more details.
- indicates the check wasn't run, typically because of a failure of a previous check. Review the message below the check for more details.
To run the check again, choose Restart check.

The following sections explain the checks that are run, and provide some tips for fixing any problems.

Basic internet connectivity

Checks that you have connection to the Internet by verifying that you can access a known public domain, like www.bing.com.

Problem	Things to try
Your browser doesn't support this check	Open the page in a supported browser, and try again. For a list of supported browsers, see Minimum Requirements for Using Business Central - Browsers
Failed to ping the server at the following URL: {url}	Check Firewall settings.

CDN (content delivery network) resources loading

Business Central uses Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) to provide resources that are required to run the Business Central Web client. This check verifies that the required resources are available and accessible by pinging the Business Central instance in CDN.

Problem	Things to try
Your browser doesn't support this check	See Basic Internet connectivity check.
Failed to ping the server at the following URL: {url}	Check Firewall settings.

User authentication

Checks that the current user signs in with a valid Business Central account.

Problem	Things to try
No user is currently authenticated	Sign in to Business Central with valid user name and password.

Business Central environments discovery

Checks for Business Central environments that are available to an authenticated user, then verifies whether the user can be authenticated in the environment.

Problem	Things to try
No authenticated user to perform this check for	See the User authentication check.
Failed to retrieve available environments for your account.	Check the list of available environments in the Business Central admin center.
Your user name or password is incorrect, or you don't have a valid account.	Verify that you sign in using the correct user name and password.

Application service connectivity

Checks that the authenticated user can connect to a discovered environment, typically starting with the production environment.

Problem	Things to try
No authenticated user to perform this check for	See the User authentication check.
Failed to retrieve available environments for your account.	See Business Central environments discovery.
No cluster address to perform this check for	Check the list of available environments in the Business Central admin center.
Version endpoint doesn't exist	Check the list of available environments in the Business Central admin center.

Web server connectivity

Checks that the authenticated user can successfully establish connections with the web server.

Problem	Things to try
No authenticated user to perform this check for	See the User authentication check.
Failed to retrieve available environments for your account.	See Business Central environments discovery.
No cluster address to perform this check for	Check the list of available environments in the Business Central admin center.
Failed to establish a connection with the web server	Clear the cache and reload the page.

Service health status

Reports Business Central's service health status by checking for declared outages.

Problem	Things to try
No authenticated user to perform this check for	See the User authentication check.
Sorry, Business Central is temporarily unavailable. Try again later.	Try again later.

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