Welcome to Business Central resources for partners

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2025-04-03

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The 2025 release wave 1 launch event for Business Central was kicked off on April 1, 2025. Find all 'What's new' sessions on aka.ms/BCLE.

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

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

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