Since a long time, it is possible to use Azure AD authentication in your Business Central OnPrem environment, whether containerized or not. But what isn’t possible – or at least is documented as impossible – is to use AAD authentication when developing in VS Code and publishing extension, downloading symbols, debugging etc.. If you are like me and get annoyed very quickly if you have to do things that aren’t exactly necessary (and not fun…), you were probably as frustrated as I that this seemingly easy option to avoid juggling with users and passwords wasn’t available.
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: delegated admins and AAD guests users
When working with your Dynamics 365 Business Central online customers, one of the first thing you should do as a partner is to setup your employees on Partner Center and then assigning to them the permissions to support your online customers.
For this task, they need to have the Assists your customers as role set as Admin Agent or Helpdesk Agent:
How to Authenticate Through Azure Active Directory (AAD) to Use Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central API
Azure Active Directory (AAD) is useful when you want to control who (users and client applications) can access particular resources (e.g. Microsoft Azure SaaS resources, Office 365 documents and Dynamics 365 installations).
One of Azure Active Directory’s (AAD) use cases is 3rd party client application authenticating through AAD to call the API of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central installation (BC).
AAD authentication, Edit In Excel, Embedded PowerBi and http://aka.ms/GETNAV
I do not have a count of how many time somebody have asked me, e-mailed me, sent messages asking for the “old” NAVDEMODEPLOY with NAV 2018 or Business Central Sandbox Containers.
What people are alluding to is really this blog post – and I am happy to announce that as of today you can now do most of the steps on that list.