hyperv isolation to the rescue!

Posted on February 14, 2020 by freddykristiansen

Update

More information on this topic can be found here: https://freddysblog.com/2020/02/26/the-world-after-february-18th/

February 11th 2020

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 →

Weekend cleanup… – done

Posted on December 12, 2019 by freddykristiansen

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 →

Having Demo Data while developing Business Central Apps with Docker

Posted on December 9, 2019 by freddykristiansen

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 →

Please check your version of Docker!

Posted on December 3, 2019 by freddykristiansen

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 →

Upgrading to 15.x from 14.x C/AL – our NAV TechDays 2019 demo

Posted on November 24, 2019 by freddykristiansen

WARNING: VERY LONG BLOG POST AHEAD!

My session at NAV Tech Days this year was together with Nikola Kukrika and we did an end 2 end walk-through of how to upgrade a code customized C/AL solution in 14.x to 15.x (AL), converting the code, upgrading the data, explaining all the pitfalls and in some cases, how to cope with missing functionality. Continue reading →

Mounting a database from my online environment using SQL Server on the host

Posted on November 12, 2019 by freddykristiansen

This blog post is really a combination between the last two blog posts, https://freddysblog.com/2019/11/04/using-sql-server-on-the-host/ and https://freddysblog.com/2019/11/12/mounting-a-database-backup-from-my-online-environment-inside-a-container/. As stated in the last blog post, you can only use databases of less than 10Gb in size inside the container due to SQL Express. This blog post will explain how to get past that problem. Continue reading →

Mounting a database backup from my online environment inside a container

Posted on November 12, 2019 by freddykristiansen

Just recently, a new functionality was enable in the Dynamics 365 Business Central admin center. The ability to request a backup. It didn’t take long before I got the first question from a partner, who asked whether they could run this locally using Docker. This blog post describes how to do just that. Continue reading →

Using SQL Server on the host

Posted on November 4, 2019 by freddykristiansen

I have had quite a few partners asking me how to connect a NAV / Business Central container to a SQL Server placed on the host. This is the way I started a blog post back in april here: https://freddysblog.com/2019/04/12/placing-the-database-on-the-host/ and elegantly, I avoided to answer the question and instead described how to place the database on the host and use the SQL engine in the container. Of course this doesn’t solve the issue if you have a very large database, which SQL Express doesn’t support.

In this blog post I will try to address the original problem. Continue reading →

Publishing a New Base Application

Posted on September 19, 2019 by freddykristiansen

I think I have mentioned before, that I strongly recommend partners to use the extension model and create extensions, which can be published, installed and upgraded much easier then code customizations.

Having said that, I know that there are partners out there for who AL code customizations will be the right stepping stone towards adapting an extension model. Continue reading →

Using APIs on containers