Little license helper / Update to D365BCAppHelper

I know, I know what you’re gonna say: license files are a thing of the past 😅 But even though I prefer the SaaS-model a lot over the on-prem model, we can’t forget that there are still tons of customers on-prem. And just recently I had a tedious task I didn’t want to manually do … Read more

Get platform version of Runtime Packages / Update to D365BCAppHelper (and little sign of life)

My last post was already quite a while ago. That’s mostly because the work-load right now is kind of bananas. Never thought that there be so much projects in the midst of a pandemic 😅 But at least some small update is there in the meantime, that I can share. Thanks to Kenneth Fuglsangs tweet … Read more

Yet another update for D365BCAppHelper / Read information from Runtime packages

In the last post I introduced you to a new function in the D365BCAppHelper-module – Get-D365BCManifestFromAppFile. I also informed you that it is limited to “regular” App-packages (meaning “non-Runtime-Packages” that weren’t created with Get-NAVAppRuntimePackage). But I also said that I would try to figure out if it is possible to include these as well. Spoiler … Read more

Update for D365BCAppHelper

Sample Screenshot (crop)

When I initially started with the D365BCAppHelper-module I did not only want to easily see a representation of existing Dependencies between installed Apps. I also wanted to use it for scenarios like easily updating Apps with said dependencies (e.g. replacing “Base Application”). I know that there are already posts out there explaining the replacement of … Read more

Show app dependencies with D365BCAppHelper

It’s been quiet for some time here, but I didn’t abandon the blog. There was just a lot to do and there was little time for new stuff. This post won’t be very long, just a quick introduction of a little helper Module I created. I wanted an easy way to visualize app-dependencies for Business … Read more

Setup Azure DevOps Build Agent and Pipeline for Business Central (with ALOps)

A little while ago I struggled a bit when I wanted to create an extensible Build Agent setup for an Azure DevOps-project for Business Central. I wanted to use ALOps for this project and different VMs for the Build Agents, depending on different sources (builds based on a Pull Request-policy, builds from dev-branch, builds from … Read more

Download Helper for Dynamics 365 Business Central

Sample Output

We all know these situations: you have a simple requirement and wonder anyway why you can’t find an easy-to-use solution to solve it. That’s why I created a little PowerShell-module which I’ll describe here. Requirement I needed a simple way to retrieve the download link for a Dynamics 365 Business Central DVD ZIP file from … Read more