Welcome to Business Central resources for partners
Note
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
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)