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1. November 2018
My impressions from and sessions at Directions EMEA 2018
Directions EMEA 2018 is over and it once again was an amazing conference with impressive keynotes, good content and of course a lot of interesting discussions. Most of alle Microsoft's effort to bring the product but also the partners in the right direction with repeatable IP, product-focused business, professional dev and ops tooling while not…
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9. October 2018
Business Central APIs and bound actions
I've written about the Business Central Connect API before and explained how you can use my ALRunner extension to create an API-enabled Azure Container Instance (ACI) and use it to do serverless API development. I have extended that a bit and will show you a quick walkthrough as well as a bit of background. The…
12. September 2018
Creating a multi-arch Docker image with Azure DevOps
Microsoft has rebranded and extended their SaaS ALM offering Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to Azure DevOps. I usually had an eye on what is happening with VSTS but as we are using an on-prem Team Foundation Server, I mostly don't have the hands-on experience, so this relaunch was a good reason do really dig…
6. September 2018
Join me at Directions EMEA and NAV TechDays 2018
Conference season is coming up and I am quite happy to be speaking and hosting workshops on Directions EMEA and NAV TechDays: Directions EMEA, Oct 29-31, The Hague, Netherlands Session "How to manage the lifecycle of volume verticals, including extensions 2.0", Wednesday Oct 31, 11 am Session "Real life scenarios and best practices for using…
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5. September 2018
Load Balancing NAV/BC in Docker Swarm
Tobias already explained how we can easily load balance the NAV Webclient via traefik. Load balancing the Windows client is a bit more complicated... TL;DR NAV uses TCP connections with a proprietary protocol for the Windows client communication and HTTP connections for the webclient and the webservices. Also the Windows and webclient require sticky sessions…
MS Planner ex- and import of plans
Microsoft Planner is a nice project planning tool which still has some shortcomings but also a lot of benefits and we are giving it a try. However there are two topics somewhat hampering our progress: To the best of my knowledge there is no way to backup a plan and also no possibility to have…
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29. August 2018
Bringing it together: Windows auth in a NAV/BC image in a Docker Swarm
I explained here that you can easily use gMSAs in a Docker Swarm to enable Windows authentication. I have only used a Windows Server Core image to show that it works, but of course the goal for me is running a NAV/BC image with a Windows authenticated WebClient in a Docker Swarm. If you are…
28. August 2018
Windows authentication in Docker Swarm
As I very recently wrote, Windows authentication for Docker containers on Windows Server 2019 made a huge step in the right direction by losing the need for identically named containers and gMSAs. But that unfortunately will be reality only some time in the future and with Windows Server 2012 (R2) still very much in use…
23. August 2018
Windows authentication in Docker containers just got a lot easier
Windows authentication in Docker containers is kind of a tricky subject and while containers in general are gaining momentum every day, containers on Windows are having a somewhat less steep increase and Windows authentication in that context is the niche in a niche. Still, that topic matters if you have users depending on Windows authentication…
15. July 2018
NAV/BC Azure Container Instances with Let’s Encrypt certificates
If you just want to have a Dynamics NAV / BC environment up and running without caring for anything around it, Azure Container Instances might be a very good way to go. I've explained about that here and here. One of the main problems there was that you could only use unsecured http or a…
22. June 2018
Visual Studio Code supports psedit
I've been using VS Code for almost all dev and editing tasks for the last months and honestly couldn't be happier. The only thing missing for me and the reason why I occasionally still used PowerShell ISE was psedit for remote file editing. It basically allows you to open a remote session in your editor…
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15. June 2018
Automated testing of a Business Central Extension V2 in TFS
One of the requirements of publishing a Business Central app (extension V2) into AppSource is an automated test package. That obviously makes a lot of sense but how to get there is not an entirely clear path. Microsoft shares their example code and some guidelines here but creating the test code is only half of…
30. May 2018
AL debugging with VS Live Share
Visual Studio Code is one of the hottest code editors / IDEs on the market and if you've been following this blog, you know that I am one of the biggest fans. A new feature that really makes it stand out from the crowd (together with "traditional" Visual Studio, where this also works) is VS…
25. May 2018
Join me at NAV TechDays 2018
I am very honored to share that I will be speaking at NAV TechDays 2018 again (this time solo) and will also host my first workshop: Session: Real life scenarios and best practices for using NAV on Docker Workshop: Docker on Windows & NAV on Docker deep dive Come join me in Antwerp between November…
3. May 2018
Get logs and execute commands on Azure Container Instances
Azure Container Instances (ACI) have recently reached GA and adoption and use cases have come up in a lot of places. Two examples of that would be my NAV/BC on ACI quickstart template and the API-enabled NAV instance on ACI you can create from my VS Code extension. Two very nice features have also been…
25. April 2018
Prepare for Business Central and get better right now: Check for breaking changes in NAV 2018 (and older)
A couple of features and concepts in Business Central and AL are clearly inspired by Microsoft now being a hoster and providing a SaaS solution. That in itself makes more then sense and as I have written a couple of times now, from my point of view all decisions made and directions taken are quite…
11. April 2018
Join me at MVPDays April v-conf for a Docker on Windows introduction
If you already know the Docker basisc, this won't be interesting for you, but if you are just getting started, this might help: On April 18, 8:00 AM - 4:30PM Mountain Standard Time (MST) the April edition of the MVPDays virtual conference will take place. Between a lot of very interesting session I am honored…
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9. April 2018
Dynamics 365 BC extension build in TFS / VSTS using containers
In the last couple of days I've seen multiple quite interesting blog posts about automatic build in TFS / VSTS for AL-based extension development for Dynamics 365 Business Central: Soren Klemmensen and Mike Glue shared their knowledge about build setup here and Kamil Sacek explained how you can get TFS-interpretable logging from the new AL…
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4. March 2018
Extending the NAV / Outlook integration in NAV 2017
While we are actively working on our plan how to move forward into the VS code development paradigm and actually have our first app ready and approved in AppSource, the undeniable fact is that our customers are still on-prem and using NAV 2017. One of the very nice "new" feature in NAV however is the…
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25. February 2018
NAV Container self-service
One of the main scenarios in my mind for using NAV on Docker is the possibility to have a "self-service" portal for my colleagues to easily create clean environments to try new cumulative updates, validate fixes and reproduce problems. This was possible for quite some time now but it took me a while to finally…
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