Since the arrival of Business Central on Cloud, a big question arose, how to now connect Local Files, Printers, and other peripherals with the ERP? To achieve this there are several ideas, such as One Drive, an SFTP server, or the one I want to show in this post, through a Local Service on the PC/Server/Laptop that needs to connect and expose it publicly so that later from Business Central it allows the relevant operations like read/write/delete and to create this exposure, we will use Azure Relay.
Tag Archives: Local
How to publish your local BC containers to internet using IIS
If you are doing Dynamics 365 Business Central development on your local (not Azure) containers, may be you want to have access to them from outside your local network without using VPN. And not only to BC Web Client, but even to API/OData and development endpoint. And of course you want to have them published with some trusted certificate to be able to use all the functionality like Business Central application, connection from Power BI connectors etc.
Run any local application from BC Web Client
In this video, I show how to create a protocol handler and be able to launch locally installed applications from the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central web client.
How Do I – Create a Docker Container Using Local SQL Server using BC-Containerhelper
This video explains how we create a docker container using BC-Containerhelper for Dynamics NAV or Business Central with database that is hosted in your local SQL Server.
Print directly to local printers with Universal Print
In this video, I show how to configure Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central to print via Microsoft Universal Print directly to a local printer on my network.
Restoring your online Business Central database locally
1½ years ago I wrote a blog post called Mounting a database from my online environment using SQL Server on the host. This blog post explains exactly the same thing, just end 2 end and much easier to understand (I hope), using artifacts and some new functions in BcContainerHelper.
Setup Visual Studio Code and NAV 2018 for local NAV server installation
It is clear that the future of NAV is Visual Studio Code and AL. And to be honest I find more fun and interesting to play with this “smart text editor” compared to the old “development UI” C/Side. Even if at the beginning it seems more difficult because you need to know in what places to add certain pieces of code related to the object’s structure while in C/Side you are helped by the UI.