Use Microsoft Entra authentication for Business Central on-premises installations

In addition to using Windows and NavUserPassword authentication, you can use Microsoft Entra ID to authenticate and publish in on-premises installations and containers from Visual Studio Code. Using Microsoft Entra ID makes it possible to mimic application lifecycle operations in an on-premises environment, while keeping the cloud-based Microsoft Entra authentication.

To enable Microsoft Entra authentication, make sure to do as follows:

• Use the primaryTenantDomain setting in the launch.json file to specify the URL of the Microsoft Entra organization or company associated with the Microsoft Entra tenant. For more information, see Find tenant ID, domain name, user object ID and JSON Files.
• On the NST, you must ensure that the server is set up to use Microsoft Entra ID as authentication mechanism. For more information, see User Authentication with Microsoft Entra ID for Single Sign-on.
• Furthermore, if the Allowed Extension Target Level setting is set to Cloud, the server setting ForceExtensionAllowedTargetLevel must be set to true. If the Allowed Extension Target Level setting is set to OnPrem, it isn't necessary to set ForceExtensionAllowedTargetLevel. For more information, see Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Server Configuration.

See also

JSON Files
User Authentication with Microsoft Entra ID for Single Sign-on
Find tenant ID, domain name, user object ID