Only a few days have gone since releasing information about how to run Business Central in docker using artifacts and already a lot of people have tried this out and a lot of people are looking into changing their CI/CD pipelines to use artifacts.
Continue readingAs a follow up to this blog post (make sure you have read this first), this blog post will share some details about working with artifacts. How do you find them, what do they contain and what happens when you try to use them. It is primarily a list of the new functionality in NavContainerHelper for working with artifacts.
I will also provide a blog post later, which describes how to work with artifacts when using docker run (raw docker commands)
Continue readingJust as you thought you were getting the hang of running Business Central in docker, then you see this title! Your first thought is probably how big the changes are to your pipelines and to your scripts and how much time you will have to perform these changes.
Continue readingOn April 1st, we shipped Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 1. It is a great release with a lot of exciting new features, which I will leave to others to write about and describe.
I will instead write about a small issue on the 19 local 16.0 DVDs you can download. They all contain test framework apps and our Microsoft test apps which ships for W1. Continue reading
As you probably discovered, the February 2020 security update had a significant impact on NAV/Business Central Docker Containers. Especially if you were running Process isolation. Most visible problem was the fact that you couldn’t launch 32bit executables in containers after applying the security update. My blog post from February 14th (https://freddysblog.com/2020/02/14/hyperv-isolation-to-the-rescue/) would explain two ways to mitigate the problem:
None of these are perfect solutions. If you are using non-unicode apps (like finsql and C/AL code) then hyperv isolation really doesn’t work very well. It causes destructive character set conversions and you really don’t want to not apply security updates for a longer period in time. Continue reading
Business Central 2019 wave 1 CU9 was shipped in February and it contains a small bug, which can cause some time consuming troubleshooting. Therefore this blog post. Continue reading
More information on this topic can be found here: https://freddysblog.com/2020/02/26/the-world-after-february-18th/
On this date, the February security updates for Windows was released, and over the next days, Windows 10 computers and Windows Servers all over the world would receive this update. I am a true believer in securing my Windows Computers and my Windows Servers and would never leave my servers unprotected so I follow the guidelines and update my machines. Continue reading
Update: Weekend cleanup is done and the latest daily builds from master (next major) and 15.x (next minor) are updated. I have also updated the number below from 45 days to 7 days as I don’t see any reason to have older insider builds. Let me know if you think differently, thanks.
It is cleanup time. Our insider repository has become very very big and it is time to clean up. The problem however is, that the current insider registry has reached a size, where it is very hard to clean up, so… Continue reading
I have always preached that you shouldn’t try to keep your Docker containers running. Containers should be something, which easily can be dismissed and recreated for any developer. One of the frequent questions is then: But what about my demo/development data? Continue reading
In Microsoft, we are constantly in search of ways to improve security for our customers. Customers must feel safe when using our services and leaving their precious data in our hands. Sometimes this requires our customers and partners to update client software and this blog post is a warning about just that. Continue reading
