Administrating Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Online: A practical guide to SaaS administration and migration from your on-premise Business Central environments to the cloud

Cover
Title page
Copyright and Credits
Dedications
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Dynamics 365 Business Central Admin Center
Chapter 1: Overview of the Dynamics 365 Business Central Administration Center
	Technical requirements
	The Admin Center main page
		Accessing the Admin Center from the web client
		Accessing the Admin Center through a direct URL
		Accessing the Admin Center through the Partner Center
	Required roles
		Internal users
		Delegated admins
	Environment types and limits
		Overview
		Environments limitations
		Capacity limitations
	Summary
Chapter 2: Managing Business Central Environments
	Understanding the Environments list
	Creating a production or sandbox environment
		Production
		Sandbox
	Creating a copy of the existing environment
	Summary
Chapter 3: Environment Details and Notifications Setup
	Detailed information about your environment
		Action buttons
		Details
		Version management
	The security group setup
	Notification setup
		Notification recipients
	Upgrade scheduling
		Possible upgrade issues
	Apps and sessions
	Database export
	Backup restore
	Summary
Chapter 4: Telemetry Setup and Analysis
	Environment telemetry in the Admin portal
		Environment telemetry in Application Insights
		Azure Application Insights
	Analyzing telemetry
		Custom events
	Summary
Chapter 5: Reported Outages and Operations
	Reporting an outage
		Production outage
	Report issue
		Submitting a ticket through the admin portal
	Environment operations analysis
	Summary
Chapter 6: Tenant Capacity Management
	Storage capacity usage
		Storage capacity by source
		Environments quota usage
	Storage usage by environment
	Some practical advice on how to keep your data within limits
		Cleaning up data
		Date compression
		Data retention policies
	Big customers
	Summary
Chapter 7: Admin Center APIs
	Setting up API authentication
	Calling APIs
		PowerShell
		Postman
	Application APIs
		Installed apps list
		Installing an app
		Uninstalling an app
		Getting available app updates
		Updating an app
		Getting app operations
	Environment operations APIs
		Environment list
		Getting an environment
		Creating an environment
		Deleting an environment
		Copying an environment
		Renaming an environment
		Restoring an environment
		Getting available restore periods
		Getting used storage for all environments
		Getting used storage for a selected environment
		Getting quotas
		Getting environment operations
		Getting operations for all environments
		Getting environment database export numbers
		Getting environment database export history
		Creating a database export
	Environment settings APIs
		Getting an environment update window
		Changing an environment update window
		Changing the environment Application Insights key
		Getting an environment security group
		Setting an environment security group
		Deleting an environment security group
	Other APIs
		Notification settings list
		Creating a notification recipient
		Deleting a notification recipient
		Getting scheduled update information
		Rescheduling updates
		Getting active sessions
		Getting details about a selected session
		Killing a session
		Getting an environment support contact
		Setting an environment support contact
		Getting environment telemetry
	Summary
Part 2: Dynamics 365 Business Central Cloud Migration Tool
Chapter 8: Cloud Migration Schema and Limitations
	Technical requirements
	Cloud Migration and how to use it
	Migration schema and the main nodes
	Migration limitation
	Summary
Chapter 9: Cloud Migration Setup
	Prerequisite 1 – SQL Server setup
	Prerequisite 2 – Connection string construction
	Prerequisite 3 – Delegated admin consent
	Migration setup and the SHIR
		Running the cloud migration wizard
		Installing the SHIR
		Finalizing the cloud migration setup
	Cloud migration APIs
		Cloud migration setup API
		On-premise companies list
		Including the on-premise company in the cloud migration
	Summary
Chapter 10: Migration Process
	Data migration
	Data upgrade
	Typical failures and how to resolve them
	Automating data migration
	Summary
Chapter 11: The Real Migration Experience
	Cloud Migration – early beginnings and evolution
	Issues in the course of implementation
		First issue
		Second issue
		Third issue
		Extra issue
	Summary
Index
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