Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the Azure File Share module

I wrote in the past some articles about how it’s important to use Azure Storage for storing files in a Dynamics 365 Business Central project (avoid using blobs and media as much as possible) and I’ve talked about the differences between Azure Blob Storage and Azure File Share, also providing a solution for mapping an Azure File Share as a local drive for data exchange with Dynamics 365 Business Central (link here).

Source : Stefano Demiliani
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Using Azure File Share: best practices

Azure Files is essentially a fully managed serverless file share hosted on Azure accessible via the industry standard protocols like SMB, NFS and Azure Files REST API.

Azure file shares can be mounted concurrently by cloud or on-premises deployments and they are extremely useful for replacing or supplementing on-premise file servers.

Source : Stefano Demiliani
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Implement your custom “Share With OneDrive” action in Dynamics 365 Business Central

So in this post I would like to countine to talk about how to implement your custom “Share With OneDrive” action in Dynamics 365 Business Central. In fact, Microsoft has given the solution in the Dynamics 365 Business Central Launch Event 2022 Release wave 1.

Source : Dynamics 365 Lab
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: How to add new button (action) to Share group (In Share Icon)

Today I would like to share a mini tip I stumbled upon that we can add our own button (action) to Share group.

As you might know, starting BC19.0, a new Share button has been added to all pages, such as Customer Card, Item list, Sales Order, General Journals, and so on.

Source : Dynamics 365 Lab
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Share Docker Containers With VS Code Live Share

If you weren’t working remotely before 2020 then we’ve all had to guess used to it this year. Collaboration tools like Teams are invaluable for keeping up with teammates during the day, discussing work and bouncing ideas and banter off each other. Video calls, screen sharing, chat, shared documents, gifs – that’s all great – but not quite a replacement for sitting at the same desk and looking at some code together.

Source : James Pearson
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Sharing Data Between Organisations With Azure Data Share

If you’ve ever built a BI solution it’s likely you will have had to integrate third party data, and if that’s the case you will know how painful it often is to get your hands on that data. Badly designed portals you have to log into every week to download the data, CSV files emailed to you, APIs with complex authentication – it’s usually an unreliable, slow and manual process.

Source : Chris Webb’s BI Blog
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