Get ready for a deep dive into two powerful data-driven Copilot experiences in Business Central: Summarize and Autofill. In this tech talk, we’ll break down how these data-driven capabilities work and how they seamlessly integrate with your custom extensions.
We’ll explore the core tech stack, walk through key execution flows, and share practical guidance to help you make your solutions Copilot-ready—enabling smarter, faster data entry and enhanced decision-making for your customers.

Discover powerful new capabilities in Microsoft Copilot Studio—including Autonomous Agents, Deep Reasoning Models, and Generative Orchestration—and learn how to bring them into your Dynamics 365 Business Central solutions. This demo-rich session walks through building intelligent agents from scratch, connecting them to Business Central using custom APIs and Power Automate flows, and deploying them across Teams, web, and Microsoft 365.

Historically BC code was never written with testability in mind. When coding tests against this code, it leaves us with ample option than setting up a lot of data before the action under test can be exercised.

Ideally you probably would like to refactor your code to comply with SOLID principles and make your automated test effort overall much simpler. But often our vast code heritage and new projects ahead do not allow us to get that prioritized and leaves us with non-SOLID code to write test automation against.

Take-away

In this workshop you will learn how your code structure determines the complexity of your test code and how this especially affects your data setup. You will learn what options you have to make your test setup more efficient and what approach fits your code structure the best.
Be it data setup or - following SOLID principles - your production code structure

For whom is this session?

• BC developers, primarily
• BC development managers
• BC testsers involved in test automation

Agenda

• Introduction
• Data setup and code structure
• Hands-on introduction
• 12:30-13:30 - Lunch
• Hands-on 2 (continue on morning)
• Componentization
• Hands-on 3
• Discuss SOLID (including test doubles)

Prerequisites:

• Bring your own laptop

Workshop date: Wed 11 June

Wed 11 June is sold out!

Are you feeling lonely without a Copilot of your own? Is everyone around you making their own Agents except you? Have you seen a lot of demos on building Agents but nothing that you can actually put to use in your business?
Would you want to build an Agent that your team would actually WANT to use? One that uses all the newest features in Copilot Studio leveraging the very best of Generative AI?
Together, we will build Agent BeeCee, your new trusty copilot and sidekick. Every Batman needs a Robin, and every Business Central professional needs an Agent BeeCee.

Agent BeeCee can:

• Answer your how-to questions about Business Central and its functionality based on knowledge sources you specify (Web, Files, SharePoint)
• Display, sort and filter lists of Items, Customers, Vendors, etc. (or your custom table) from Business Central
• Reason over your inquiries and give you insights about data from Items, Customers, Vendors, etc.
• Create a new record in Business Central such as an Item, Customer, or Vendor
• Send business-ready e-mails on your behalf with just a prompt, including information from Business Central such as a Sales Invoice or a Quote (yes, it will use your BC report layouts!)
• Show and answer questions about your calendar and schedule
• Create a new calendar event
• Autonomously reason over an e-mail from a customer and respond to their request such as a list of unpaid invoices with due dates
• Autonomously respond to requests based on an organization’s operational policies
• Get the status of a package being delivered by UPS
• Tell the weather
• And thanks to the built-in LLM it can also tell you dad jokes or show you how to make an origami duck!
  
  

Skills you will learn:

• Build Agents with Copilot Studio
• Create Topics
• Create Actions (built-in Connectors, custom Power Automate Flows and more)
• Create Triggers to make your Agent autonomous
• Use Instructions and Descriptions to make your Copilot Agent smarter
• Use Dynamic Chaining to make your Agent efficient and increase user satisfaction levels
• Work with Adaptive Cards
• Work with AI Builder and Prompts
• Work with HTTP GET Method to pull data from a public service
• Deploy your Agent in Teams, a website or even inside Copilot for Microsoft 365 so you can access them inside Copilot BizChat or from Word, Excel, etc.
• Securing your Agents with authentication
  
  

Want to work with custom data? I’ll also show you how to build and deploy custom API pages in Business Central

We will primarily work with the native Connectors in Copilot Studio’s Actions, as well as Power Automate Flows. We will also cover an example with Dataverse.

Prerequisites:

• Bring your own laptop

Workshop date: Tue 10 or Wed 11 June (This is a one-day workshop)

Wed 11 June is sold out!

Explore how AI agents are reshaping Business Central. We’ll introduce our first agents—Sales Order and Payables—then walk through building a new one live using a no-code approach. You’ll also get a behind-the-scenes look at how agents operate.

Join us for an in-depth exploration of the latest advancements in AL Language and its testing capabilities. This session will cover a range of new features designed to streamline your development process and improve code quality. We'll dive into the enhanced capabilities for working with tests, including new JSON extension methods and YAML support. Discover how the updated date, time, and date-time functions now come with helper properties to simplify your coding tasks. Learn about the new HttpClient mocking features that make testing more efficient. Additionally, we'll explore other powerful AL Language capabilities such as the this and continue keywords, the ternary operator, and interface casting.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn from the product group, ask questions, and enhance your AL Language skills. Engage with the product team, network with peers, and gain practical insights to elevate your development journey.

Discover the latest advancements in managing app package contents and how they can elevate your development experience. This session will delve into the new capabilities for utilizing resources effectively, working with full-screen client add-in packages, and building extensible applications using interfaces. Learn about the innovative feature that allows you to move tables and fields between extensions, providing greater flexibility and control over your app development. Additionally, we'll explore how to connect your package with an Azure Key Vault and use secrets in your app securely. Gain insights into source control best practices and learn how to explore packages from the extension management package by connecting to the GitHub version of the application.

Join us to gain insights from the product group, ask questions, and enhance your skills to unlock the full potential of your app packages.

Learn to publish and consume APIs. We will go through the whole process from scratch.

The agenda will cover:

Publishing APIs

1. Codeunits
2. Codeunits with XML parameters
3. SOAP webservices/oData
4. SOAP with functions
5. Rest pages
6. Rest Queries
7. API pages
   
   

Consuming API in AL

1. SOAP webservices with XML handling
2. SOAP webservices and functions
3. oData in XML format
4. oData in REST format
5. API pages
6. API pages with functions
   
   

Authentication

1. No authentications
2. Windows authentications
3. Basic authentication
4. Oauth2 authentication (service to service)
5. Building proxies

Prerequisites:

• Bring your own laptop

Workshop date: Tue 10 or Wed 11 June (This is a one-day workshop)

Tue 10 June & Wed 11 June is sold out!

Join this session to discover all the new capabilities introduced in Business Central 2025 release wave 1 for building more compelling Excel and Word reports. Learn how you can build reports that support automated e-document processing. Furthermore, we will describe new capabilities added to the analysis views, including the ability to add related fields, and discuss when to use views and when to use Excel reports.

In this session, we will explore the latest tools and programs available to ISVs for enhancing their Copilot extensions in Business Central Cloud. Refresh your knowledge with the newest announcements on developer tools, available LLMs through Microsoft-managed AI resources, effective prompting techniques, strategies for handling hallucinations, and best practices for leveraging these tools. Stay up to date with the latest advancements to ensure your Copilot extensions are both highly specialized and effective.

Discover the latest advancements in managing app package contents and how they can elevate your development experience. This session will delve into the new capabilities for utilizing resources effectively, working with full-screen client add-in packages, and building extensible applications using interfaces. Learn about the innovative feature that allows you to move tables and fields between extensions, providing greater flexibility and control over your app development. Additionally, we'll explore how to connect your package with an Azure Key Vault and use secrets in your app securely. Gain insights into source control best practices and learn how to explore packages from the extension management package by connecting to the GitHub version of the application.

Join us to gain insights from the product group, ask questions, and enhance your skills to unlock the full potential of your app packages.

As Business Central continues to evolve in the cloud-first world, so must our approach to integration.

This session is a journey through two paradigms: the traditional AL-based integration patterns and the emerging modern architectures built on APIS, events, and automation platforms. We'll begin with a deep dive into the "AL way"—exploring using HTTPClient and building structured payloads using XML and JSON.

From there, we transition into the modern landscape: decoupled architectures powered by custom APIS, event-driven logic, Logic Apps, and Power Automate. You’ll see real-world examples, hands-on demonstrations, and clear side-by-side comparisons of each approach's strengths, limitations, and best-fit scenarios.

Whether you're maintaining legacy solutions or architecting new integrations, this session will give you the insight and tools to confidently design scalable, maintainable, and aligned designs that are scalable and aligned with Business Central's future.

What you will learn:

• Core principles behind AL-based and modern integration designs
• Real-time vs. scheduled processing: trade-offs and techniques
• Handling data transformations, responses, and errors
• Best practices for designing extensible integration frameworks
• When to transition, and how to combine the best of both worlds

This workshop is focused on providing guidance and insights into what you need to study to pass the exam successfully.

In this workshop, we review each part of the table of contents specific to the MB-820 Exam: Business Central Developer Associate, with different examples:

• Business Central environments
• Development environments
• Debugging
• Different Business Central objects
• UI Experience
• Extending Business Central
• Tools
• Business Central integrations (API, REST,...)

You will learn where to find information to study to prepare for the exam and the kinds of questions that you can find in it.

Most of the attendees from the latest workshops passed the exam with success.

Prerequisites:

• Your laptop with VS Code installed
• You must have a wide knowledge of development in Business Central. This is not a Business Central programming course.

Workshop date: Tue 10 or Wed 11 June (This is a one-day workshop)

Embark on a transformative journey in this session as we guide you through the art of harnessing Power Pages, coupled with the intelligence of Copilot and seamless integration with Dataverse and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central through Virtual Tables.

Whether for clients, partners, vendors, or customers, this workshop is tailored to empower you in creating dynamic Customer Experience Portals.

AGENDA

1. Environment Setup and Configuration of Power Pages: Learn the intricacies of setting up and configuring your environment for optimal Power Pages utilization.
2. Designing and Building Experiences using Power Pages and Copilot: Dive into the collaborative world of Power Pages and Copilot as we construct using AI. Gain hands-on experience that will enable you to effectively use and demonstrate this powerful combination.
3. Configuring Site Authentication for External and Anonymous Users: Understand the importance of secure access: Walk through the process of configuring site authentication to provide a seamless and protected experience for both external and anonymous users.
4. Adding Data to Your Power Pages for Business Central implementations: Explore the seamless integration capabilities with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, allowing you to enrich your portals with relevant and real-time data.

By the end of this session, you will not only possess the skills to build captivating Customer Experience Portals but also comprehend how these portals can strategically extend data and processes to external users. Join us in this immersive experience, where Power Pages, Copilot, and AI converge to redefine the possibilities of portal development.

Prerequisites:

• Bring your own laptop

Workshop date: Tue 10 or Wed 11 June (This is a one-day workshop)

Wed 11 June is sold out!

Building high-quality AI features requires high-quality test datasets. This session focuses on creating test datasets for AI applications to drive accuracy and adherence to Responsible AI guidelines. We will share our experiences and tools for generating test data to measure accuracy and evaluate potential harms to allow you to build reliable Copilot features.

"Can I run a customer with 350 users on SaaS?". "What about a customer that posts 1000 invoices with 1000 lines each day?". These are common questions that often land on developers' desks from sales teams.
If you find yourself grappling with these challenges, this session is for you. Handling large customers can be a source of pride for developers, but it also comes with significant challenges. To avoid pitfalls, it's crucial to understand both the basics and advanced techniques for architecting, implementing, and maintaining solutions effectively.
In this session, we will delve into performance tools, telemetry, retention policies, AL code optimization, and real-life integration strategies. Our goal is to equip you with the knowledge to make your large customers shine like a star in the ERP firmament.
If you’re currently or planning to work with Business Central large customer, this is probably a session that you don’t want to miss and you will see lots of advanced code tips.

This session will provide a comprehensive in-depth overview of Microsoft Semantic Kernel, a powerful tool for building and orchestrating AI workflows.
Attendees will learn about the core concepts, architecture, and practical applications of the Semantic Kernel with Dynamics 365 Business Central and will gain hands-on experience through interactive demos and real-world examples.
We’ll see how to use Semantic Kernel, how to use Semantic Memory for RAG, how to create plugins, how to create AI agents for Business Central with Semantic Kernel, how to orchestrate agents, how to create AI agents with locally hosted LLMs and how to deliver AI solutions that can be agnostic from the AI provider and model.
This session is designed for both beginners and experienced developers who want to leverage the capabilities of the Semantic Kernel to enhance their AI solutions with Business Central.
Lots of code (especially .NET) and tools will be presented during the session.

Clustered index, rowstore index, columnstore index, included fields, SumIndexFields. Have you ever been confused navigating all the different kinds of indexes and trying to find what works best for your application?
Or maybe you have struggled to improve performance of a slow AL procedure that queries the database and takes ages to complete?
A proper index may be the solution to a performance problem, but how to choose the best index? What criteria can we apply to assess an index, and what are its positive and negative effects on the application?
In our session, we will answer these and many other questions related to table indexing. You will see practical examples of Business Central application code and recommended approach to table indexing for better performance.
We will cover benefits of table indexes, as well as downsides and pitfalls of excessive indexing, illustrating the session with real life examples from Business Central implementations.

Discover how Chat with Copilot in Business Central is evolving to deliver smarter, more contextual chat experiences. In this session, we’ll showcase new capabilities like Copilot’s awareness of your current page, its ability to analyze lists, and how it can answer questions about custom fields. Learn how to extend Copilot by integrating your ISV documentation —empowering users to get answers about your extensions directly in a chat. We’ll also explore latest technology updates (MCP) and share forward-looking insights into bringing your own skills into the Copilot experience.

Dynamics 365 Business Central offers various capabilities to enhance its data and business logic through integration with Dataverse. From data synchronization to virtual entities and business events, developers and consultants can leverage out-of-the-box integrations to maximize efficiency.

Building on the success of last year's 90-minute session, we have developed an in-depth workshop to explore the integration capabilities of Power Platform and Business Central. This workshop will demonstrate how to connect Dynamics 365 Business Central with Dataverse for seamless data integration. Additionally, we will cover how to utilize Business Events to trigger both standard and custom events, facilitating integration with Power Platform.

Through various practical examples, participants will learn how to use existing integrations and build new ones from scratch. Once the integration is complete, we will explore use cases for Power Platform and Microsoft Copilot with Business Central data.

Prerequisites:

• Bring your own laptop
• Participants must have a Power Platform developer environment and a Business Central sandbox. We will send you guidelines in advance to set it up.

Workshop date: Tue 10 or Wed 11 June (This is a one-day workshop)

Integrating with complex APIs can be quite cumbersome. That is true if you talk to BC from e.g. a dedicated frontend or an integration solution as well as talking to another API from BC.

If you develop API clients in BC, you have to create quite some boilerplate code that doesn't add a lot of value and is annoying and cumbersome to create and maintain. In this session, we will show you a work in progress approach for automating that process so that you can get API clients with only a few commands.

Once you have your client in BC or somewhere else, simulating / mocking complex APIs for test and dev purposes is also not easy. WireMock provides a free and open-source platform to vastly simplify that job and helps both during development and CI. In this session you will understand the challenges that WireMock helps you tackle, you will see a ready-to-use setup to get started and you will get deep insights into how you use it with comprehensive demos and walkthroughs.

In today's ever-evolving digital landscape, securing your business applications is more than a technical challenge—it’s a strategic imperative. This session dives into the heart of Business Central security, presenting customer-driven cases that reveal how organizations have successfully navigated common hurdles with robust security configurations. You'll gain insights from real-world experiences addressing recurring questions around access control, data protection, and compliance. We’ll explore actionable best practices—from implementing role-specific permissions to configuring advanced authentication measures—that empower you to safeguard your Business Central environment effectively.

Join us to learn practical strategies that you can deploy immediately to enhance security and build resilience in your business operations.

Integrating with complex APIs can be quite cumbersome. That is true if you talk to BC from e.g. a dedicated frontend or an integration solution as well as talking to another API from BC.

If you develop API clients in BC, you have to create quite some boilerplate code that doesn't add a lot of value and is annoying and cumbersome to create and maintain. In this session, we will show you a work in progress approach for automating that process so that you can get API clients with only a few commands.

Once you have your client in BC or somewhere else, simulating / mocking complex APIs for test and dev purposes is also not easy. WireMock provides a free and open-source platform to vastly simplify that job and helps both during development and CI. In this session you will understand the challenges that WireMock helps you tackle, you will see a ready-to-use setup to get started and you will get deep insights into how you use it with comprehensive demos and walkthroughs.

Discover the latest enhancements in the web client experience, including native PDF preview, a new dedicated client add-in page type, and expanded barcode scanner API with configurable barcode formats. This session also covers new productivity shortcuts, flexible FactBox resizing, an improved Power BI embedded experience, and the newest telemetry signals to help diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues more effectively.

This session provides best practices how to leverage page scripting tool for acceptance testing. We will cover page scripting capabilities and automation using bc-replay npm package. We will also share what we learned using page scripting internally at Microsoft.

Building high-quality AI features requires high-quality test datasets. This session focuses on creating test datasets for AI applications to drive accuracy and adherence to Responsible AI guidelines. We will share our experiences and tools for generating test data to measure accuracy and evaluate potential harms to allow you to build reliable Copilot features.

This session provides best practices for optimizing performance in Business Central. We will cover key areas such as locking and concurrency, techniques for testing concurrent scenarios, and the use of full-text indexes. We will also explore how Scheduled Profiles can troubleshoot performance and how telemetry can be used to monitor and improve system behavior. Insights are based on real-world experience and internal practices at Microsoft.

Join this session to learn all things new in the 2025 release wave 1 (and a short recap on 2024 wave 2) of the Server and the Database. We will cover performance improvements, AL runtime, database, search, web services stack, and reporting.

Additionally, we'll touch on various smaller updates that, while not large enough for their own sessions, are still significant and worth noting.

We might also take a short look at some of the new things currently under development

Explore how AI agents are reshaping Business Central. We’ll introduce our first agents—Sales Order and Payables—then walk through building a new one live using a no-code approach. You’ll also get a behind-the-scenes look at how agents operate.

Join us for an engaging session exploring the full journey of prompt engineering and building Copilot features with large language models (LLMs). We'll begin by demystifying prompt engineering—covering key concepts, enhancement techniques, and responsible AI practices. Then, we’ll dive into the real-world challenges of developing Copilot features, including managing large data contexts, structuring responses, optimizing function calls, and testing prompts. The session will conclude with a live Q&A, offering insights and solutions to the challenges you face.

Get ready for a deep dive into two powerful data-driven Copilot experiences in Business Central: Summarize and Autofill. In this tech talk, we’ll break down how these data-driven capabilities work and how they seamlessly integrate with your custom extensions.
We’ll explore the core tech stack, walk through key execution flows, and share practical guidance to help you make your solutions Copilot-ready—enabling smarter, faster data entry and enhanced decision-making for your customers.

Discover the latest enhancements in the web client experience, including native PDF preview, a new dedicated client add-in page type, and expanded barcode scanner API with configurable barcode formats. This session also covers new productivity shortcuts, flexible FactBox resizing, an improved Power BI embedded experience, and the newest telemetry signals to help diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues more effectively.

This session provides best practices how to leverage page scripting tool for acceptance testing. We will cover page scripting capabilities and automation using bc-replay npm package. We will also share what we learned using page scripting internally at Microsoft.

Join us for an engaging session exploring the full journey of prompt engineering and building Copilot features with large language models (LLMs). We'll begin by demystifying prompt engineering—covering key concepts, enhancement techniques, and responsible AI practices. Then, we’ll dive into the real-world challenges of developing Copilot features, including managing large data contexts, structuring responses, optimizing function calls, and testing prompts. The session will conclude with a live Q&A, offering insights and solutions to the challenges you face.

In this session, we’ll uncover the real security threats facing Business Central applications and how to defend against them. You’ll learn how Microsoft performs security reviews in Business Central and explore best practices for writing secure AL code. Whether you're building extensions or maintaining existing apps, this session will equip you with the tools and mindset to write secure, resilient code your customers can trust.

Even in a self-driving car, you need a license!

In the age of AI, many developers turn to tools like Copilot to speed up their work. But can AI truly replace the skills of an experienced AL developer? Can we trust AI blindly? And do we even need to learn AL anymore?

Dmitry, an AI enthusiast, and AJ, a 25+ year AL master, take the stage to explore these questions. During the session, AJ will demonstrate the beauty of good old manual coding, while Dmitry uses AI tools across different IDEs and LLM models to supercharge the process.

Who will win? Join us to find out!

During this session, we're going to put "Anything Copilot" to the test: from vectorized data to chat-ability. The goal is simple: if there's anything wrong with my Business Central, I can just ask about it.

We'll vectorize KQL queries, query BC Telemetry, interpret the results with Copilot, and add some extra cherries on top. Plus, we'll walk you through how to build such a solution yourself - from start to finish!

Join us to see how Copilot can revolutionize your Business Central experience by making data querying and interpretation as easy as having a conversation.

Join Dmitry Katson for an exclusive one-day workshop focused on developing Copilot features in Business Central. This workshop is designed for developers who want to build their own copilots in Business Central, utilizing the latest improvements in the Copilot Toolkit with Business Central v26.

You’ll learn how to build copilots in pure AL using the Copilot Toolkit, master prompt engineering, and apply embeddings and semantic search to create smarter, context-aware AI solutions. By the end of the day, you'll have developed six ready-to-use copilots for your own projects.

What You’ll Learn:

- How to develop, test, and integrate Copilot features into Business Central.
- Master prompt engineering to enhance user interactions and improve response accuracy.
- Leverage semantic search and embeddings to optimize business workflows.
- Build AI copilots that streamline processes and boost efficiency.

Important Note:
If you attended this workshop in 2024, please note that 80% of the material will be the same. We recommend exploring other workshops to make the most of your time.

This workshop is your chance to dive into Business Central's powerful Copilot Toolkit and learn how to create innovative AI solutions that will shape the future of your customers, while also establishing yourself as a leader among AL professionals and partners!

Prerequisites:

• Bring your own laptop

Workshop date: Tue 10 or Wed 11 June (This is a one-day workshop)

Wed 11 June is sold out!

Even in a self-driving car, you need a license!

In the age of AI, many developers turn to tools like Copilot to speed up their work. But can AI truly replace the skills of an experienced AL developer? Can we trust AI blindly? And do we even need to learn AL anymore?

Dmitry, an AI enthusiast, and AJ, a 25+ year AL master, take the stage to explore these questions. During the session, AJ will demonstrate the beauty of good old manual coding, while Dmitry uses AI tools across different IDEs and LLM models to supercharge the process.

Who will win? Join us to find out!

This session provides best practices for optimizing performance in Business Central. We will cover key areas such as locking and concurrency, techniques for testing concurrent scenarios, and the use of full-text indexes. We will also explore how Scheduled Profiles can troubleshoot performance and how telemetry can be used to monitor and improve system behavior. Insights are based on real-world experience and internal practices at Microsoft.

This session provides best practices for optimizing performance in Business Central. We will cover key areas such as locking and concurrency, techniques for testing concurrent scenarios, and the use of full-text indexes. We will also explore how Scheduled Profiles can troubleshoot performance and how telemetry can be used to monitor and improve system behavior. Insights are based on real-world experience and internal practices at Microsoft.

In this session, we will explore the latest tools and programs available to ISVs for enhancing their Copilot extensions in Business Central Cloud. Refresh your knowledge with the newest announcements on developer tools, available LLMs through Microsoft-managed AI resources, effective prompting techniques, strategies for handling hallucinations, and best practices for leveraging these tools. Stay up to date with the latest advancements to ensure your Copilot extensions are both highly specialized and effective.

Discover powerful new capabilities in Microsoft Copilot Studio—including Autonomous Agents, Deep Reasoning Models, and Generative Orchestration—and learn how to bring them into your Dynamics 365 Business Central solutions. This demo-rich session walks through building intelligent agents from scratch, connecting them to Business Central using custom APIs and Power Automate flows, and deploying them across Teams, web, and Microsoft 365.

Discover the latest advancements in Business Central 2025 Release Wave 1 that bring flexibility to your environment updates and introduce powerful new capabilities for administrators. This session will delve into the changes and new features, including the management of PTEs in the admin center and the new S2S discovery endpoint designed for seamless handling of multiple tenants. Join us to learn how to elevate your administration tasks with automation and these new capabilities.

Join us for an in-depth exploration of the latest advancements in AL Language and its testing capabilities. This session will cover a range of new features designed to streamline your development process and improve code quality. We'll dive into the enhanced capabilities for working with tests, including new JSON extension methods and YAML support. Discover how the updated date, time, and date-time functions now come with helper properties to simplify your coding tasks. Learn about the new HttpClient mocking features that make testing more efficient. Additionally, we'll explore other powerful AL Language capabilities such as the this and continue keywords, the ternary operator, and interface casting.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn from the product group, ask questions, and enhance your AL Language skills. Engage with the product team, network with peers, and gain practical insights to elevate your development journey.

Discover the latest advancements in managing app package contents and how they can elevate your development experience. This session will delve into the new capabilities for utilizing resources effectively, working with full-screen client add-in packages, and building extensible applications using interfaces. Learn about the innovative feature that allows you to move tables and fields between extensions, providing greater flexibility and control over your app development. Additionally, we'll explore how to connect your package with an Azure Key Vault and use secrets in your app securely. Gain insights into source control best practices and learn how to explore packages from the extension management package by connecting to the GitHub version of the application.

Join us to gain insights from the product group, ask questions, and enhance your skills to unlock the full potential of your app packages.

You think there is more to discover on your developer journey? We're here to support you!

This workshop aims to explore what makes a developer a "better developer" by collecting input from attendees and addressing common challenges faced in daily work.
During the workshop we will give you broader view of key elements in software development, which can help you move forward as a developer. You will learn about core coding principles as well as handling team dynamics and customer requirements.

Outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, attendees will have a clearer understanding of what practical strategies are helpful and how to overcome common challenges together with a roadmap for personal and professional growth.

Who Should Attend:
Developers of all levels who are looking to improve their skills and support others to enhance their problem-solving abilities, and create a more productive and motivating work environment.

Prerequisites:

• Bring your own laptop

Workshop date: Tue 10 or Wed 11 June (This is a one-day workshop)

Wed 11 June is sold out!

As Business Central continues to evolve in the cloud-first world, so must our approach to integration.

This session is a journey through two paradigms: the traditional AL-based integration patterns and the emerging modern architectures built on APIS, events, and automation platforms. We'll begin with a deep dive into the "AL way"—exploring using HTTPClient and building structured payloads using XML and JSON.

From there, we transition into the modern landscape: decoupled architectures powered by custom APIS, event-driven logic, Logic Apps, and Power Automate. You’ll see real-world examples, hands-on demonstrations, and clear side-by-side comparisons of each approach's strengths, limitations, and best-fit scenarios.

Whether you're maintaining legacy solutions or architecting new integrations, this session will give you the insight and tools to confidently design scalable, maintainable, and aligned designs that are scalable and aligned with Business Central's future.

What you will learn:

• Core principles behind AL-based and modern integration designs
• Real-time vs. scheduled processing: trade-offs and techniques
• Handling data transformations, responses, and errors
• Best practices for designing extensible integration frameworks
• When to transition, and how to combine the best of both worlds

Clustered index, rowstore index, columnstore index, included fields, SumIndexFields. Have you ever been confused navigating all the different kinds of indexes and trying to find what works best for your application?
Or maybe you have struggled to improve performance of a slow AL procedure that queries the database and takes ages to complete?
A proper index may be the solution to a performance problem, but how to choose the best index? What criteria can we apply to assess an index, and what are its positive and negative effects on the application?
In our session, we will answer these and many other questions related to table indexing. You will see practical examples of Business Central application code and recommended approach to table indexing for better performance.
We will cover benefits of table indexes, as well as downsides and pitfalls of excessive indexing, illustrating the session with real life examples from Business Central implementations.

Join this session for a deep dive on the different ways that Business Central integrates with Power BI. We will have a look at the different options that you have to extract data from Business Central, and how to show your reports directly in the Business Central client. There will be also an overview of how to install and configure the new out-of-the-box reports in the different areas like Finance, Manufacturing, Inventory, and many more.

Dynamics 365 Business Central offers various capabilities to enhance its data and business logic through integration with Dataverse. From data synchronization to virtual entities and business events, developers and consultants can leverage out-of-the-box integrations to maximize efficiency.

Building on the success of last year's 90-minute session, we have developed an in-depth workshop to explore the integration capabilities of Power Platform and Business Central. This workshop will demonstrate how to connect Dynamics 365 Business Central with Dataverse for seamless data integration. Additionally, we will cover how to utilize Business Events to trigger both standard and custom events, facilitating integration with Power Platform.

Through various practical examples, participants will learn how to use existing integrations and build new ones from scratch. Once the integration is complete, we will explore use cases for Power Platform and Microsoft Copilot with Business Central data.

Prerequisites:

• Bring your own laptop
• Participants must have a Power Platform developer environment and a Business Central sandbox. We will send you guidelines in advance to set it up.

Workshop date: Tue 10 or Wed 11 June (This is a one-day workshop)

In this session we will start by looking back at the development of artificial intelligence from the early days to what has brought us todays hype around Large Language Model.

You will then hear about models, training, tokens and GPUs and we will also briefly discuss fine-tuning techniques.

If want to take a step back and gain a broader perspective on AI, this is the session for you.

Join us for a deep technical dive into the “Edit in Excel” feature in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. We’ll walk through the full journey of data—from the Page UI and AL code to OData and Excel—unpacking what really happens when users interact with data in Excel.

You’ll learn how to build and extend pages, generate and verify web services, and understand how filters and datasets carry over from BC to Excel. We’ll demonstrate CRUD operations directly from Excel, explore backend data flow to the NST, and share how to troubleshoot common Add-in issues.

We’ll also show how to use Excel Copilot to update data with a touch of AI magic and push changes back to BC. Whether you're supporting users, building extensions, or just curious about what’s under the hood—this session will equip you with the insights to make the most of this powerful integration.

Explore how AI agents are reshaping Business Central. We’ll introduce our first agents—Sales Order and Payables—then walk through building a new one live using a no-code approach. You’ll also get a behind-the-scenes look at how agents operate.

Discover the latest enhancements in the web client experience, including native PDF preview, a new dedicated client add-in page type, and expanded barcode scanner API with configurable barcode formats. This session also covers new productivity shortcuts, flexible FactBox resizing, an improved Power BI embedded experience, and the newest telemetry signals to help diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues more effectively.

Join me for a deep dive into report objects and layouts in Business Central.

We'll start with the basics of report objects. You'll get to know the different layout types available, like RDLC, Word, and Excel layouts, and how to pick the best one for your needs.

Next, we'll get into the specifics of each layout type. You'll learn how to design and customize RDLC layouts for more complex reports, create professional-looking Word layouts for document-style reports, and use Excel layouts for data analysis.

Throughout the session, I'll share practical tips and tricks to help you optimize your report designs and make your reporting processes more efficient.

Key Takeaways:

• Understanding the basics of report objects in Business Central.
• Creating and modifying report objects.
• Choosing the best layout types for your needs.
• Creating professional-looking Word layouts.
• Using Excel layouts for data analysis.
• Tips and tricks for optimizing report designs.

Join me and take your Business Central reporting to the next level!

Discover the latest advancements in managing app package contents and how they can elevate your development experience. This session will delve into the new capabilities for utilizing resources effectively, working with full-screen client add-in packages, and building extensible applications using interfaces. Learn about the innovative feature that allows you to move tables and fields between extensions, providing greater flexibility and control over your app development. Additionally, we'll explore how to connect your package with an Azure Key Vault and use secrets in your app securely. Gain insights into source control best practices and learn how to explore packages from the extension management package by connecting to the GitHub version of the application.

Join us to gain insights from the product group, ask questions, and enhance your skills to unlock the full potential of your app packages.

Join this session to discover all the new capabilities introduced in Business Central 2025 release wave 1 for building more compelling Excel and Word reports. Learn how you can build reports that support automated e-document processing. Furthermore, we will describe new capabilities added to the analysis views, including the ability to add related fields, and discuss when to use views and when to use Excel reports.

You think there is more to discover on your developer journey? We're here to support you!

This workshop aims to explore what makes a developer a "better developer" by collecting input from attendees and addressing common challenges faced in daily work.
During the workshop we will give you broader view of key elements in software development, which can help you move forward as a developer. You will learn about core coding principles as well as handling team dynamics and customer requirements.

Outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, attendees will have a clearer understanding of what practical strategies are helpful and how to overcome common challenges together with a roadmap for personal and professional growth.

Who Should Attend:
Developers of all levels who are looking to improve their skills and support others to enhance their problem-solving abilities, and create a more productive and motivating work environment.

Prerequisites:

• Bring your own laptop

Workshop date: Tue 10 or Wed 11 June (This is a one-day workshop)

Wed 11 June is sold out!

In today's ever-evolving digital landscape, securing your business applications is more than a technical challenge—it’s a strategic imperative. This session dives into the heart of Business Central security, presenting customer-driven cases that reveal how organizations have successfully navigated common hurdles with robust security configurations. You'll gain insights from real-world experiences addressing recurring questions around access control, data protection, and compliance. We’ll explore actionable best practices—from implementing role-specific permissions to configuring advanced authentication measures—that empower you to safeguard your Business Central environment effectively.

Join us to learn practical strategies that you can deploy immediately to enhance security and build resilience in your business operations.

Discover the latest advancements in Business Central 2025 Release Wave 1 that bring flexibility to your environment updates and introduce powerful new capabilities for administrators. This session will delve into the changes and new features, including the management of PTEs in the admin center and the new S2S discovery endpoint designed for seamless handling of multiple tenants. Join us to learn how to elevate your administration tasks with automation and these new capabilities.

Unlock the full potential of your AL code by avoiding outdated patterns and adopting new, optimized guidelines. In this session, we will dive deep into AL code performance by dissecting the SQL queries underlying your AL code, examining commonly used patterns, evaluating their effectiveness, and running examples to measure performance.

Drawing from real-world experience, I'll showcase instances of poorly performing AL code and highlight commonly misused patterns that can hinder performance. You'll discover bad practices and gain insight into what happens behind the scenes in Business Central.

Beyond performance, in the second part of the session, I'll introduce new patterns, guidelines, and best practices that are often overlooked!!

As someone who has actively contributed to new Base Application features, I've honed my skills in writing optimized code and implementing the latest guidelines. Join this session to elevate your AL code and stay ahead with cutting-edge practices!

If you want quality, you need tests. If you want maintainability, you need tests. If you want...

Okay, okay, we get it, tests are great... But they’re also boring... 🙄

Well, what if we brought a breath of fresh air into them? Because that’s exactly what happened in the last 12 months. First, page scripting. Click, click, boom! Test Automated! Much simpler! And now another addition “Data-Driven Testing”. Build one AL test but cover multiple test cases! Less coding, more coverage! Fun!

Well … maybe not “fun”, but it’s something new and exciting! So if you’d like to know what these new testing practices are, and how you can “slot” them along your traditional AL tests, Join this session when we deep dive into all nuts and bolts of both new features.

Sure, it works well for mainstream languages like C#. But AL? That quirky language behind Business Central? GitHub Copilot is nothing more than a glorified autocomplete...

Or is it?

I’m here to show you how Copilot has evolved into so much more over the past year. Sure, there’s Copilot Chat—cool, but we’ve all had ChatGPT for a while. The real game-changer? *Copilot Edits.*

This isn’t just code suggestions; it’s code creation. Tables, pages, codeunits, subscribers, tests—all in AL—and guess what? They compile. Copilot Edits takes care of the tedious work so you can focus on solving real problems and building what matters.

But how does it know what you need? And why does it sometimes get it so right — yet other times, so painfully wrong?

Whether you’re a Copilot enthusiast or a skeptic, this session will break down not just what it can do, but why it works. Let me show you why Copilot Edits is the next big leap for AL.

This workshop isn’t about teaching you how to write a great test plan. It’s about teaching you how to get AI to write it for you!

We all know quality features need solid planning—but writing test plans takes time. That’s why we often skip them. But what if AI could handle the heavy lifting—turning your user stories into test plans—so you can focus on building better software?

In this workshop, you’ll learn exactly how to build that AI pipeline—from crafting the right prompts to designing workflows that deliver reliable results.

Here’s what we’ll cover:

• How to craft effective prompts that guide AI to deliver useful results
• The impact of different models and model settings like temperature on output quality
• How to design multi-step AI workflows
• Skills to automate other repetitive tasks using AI
  

By the end, you’ll have your own AI-driven process for drafting test plans—and the skills to build even more automation into your workflow.

Stop wasting time on what AI can do for you. Let’s build smarter.

Prerequisites:

• Bring your own laptop

Workshop date: Tue 10

This workshop isn’t about teaching you how to write a great test plan. It’s about teaching you how to get AI to write it for you!

We all know quality features need solid planning—but writing test plans takes time. That’s why we often skip them. But what if AI could handle the heavy lifting—turning your user stories into test plans—so you can focus on building better software?

In this workshop, you’ll learn exactly how to build that AI pipeline—from crafting the right prompts to designing workflows that deliver reliable results.

Here’s what we’ll cover:

• How to craft effective prompts that guide AI to deliver useful results
• The impact of different models and model settings like temperature on output quality
• How to design multi-step AI workflows
• Skills to automate other repetitive tasks using AI
  

By the end, you’ll have your own AI-driven process for drafting test plans—and the skills to build even more automation into your workflow.

Stop wasting time on what AI can do for you. Let’s build smarter.

Prerequisites:

• Bring your own laptop

Workshop date: Wed 11 June

Wed 11 June is sold out!

Join us for a hands-on session where you will learn how to build your own demo data using the new Contoso Demo Tool.

"Can I run a customer with 350 users on SaaS?". "What about a customer that posts 1000 invoices with 1000 lines each day?". These are common questions that often land on developers' desks from sales teams.
If you find yourself grappling with these challenges, this session is for you. Handling large customers can be a source of pride for developers, but it also comes with significant challenges. To avoid pitfalls, it's crucial to understand both the basics and advanced techniques for architecting, implementing, and maintaining solutions effectively.
In this session, we will delve into performance tools, telemetry, retention policies, AL code optimization, and real-life integration strategies. Our goal is to equip you with the knowledge to make your large customers shine like a star in the ERP firmament.
If you’re currently or planning to work with Business Central large customer, this is probably a session that you don’t want to miss and you will see lots of advanced code tips.

Discover how Chat with Copilot in Business Central is evolving to deliver smarter, more contextual chat experiences. In this session, we’ll showcase new capabilities like Copilot’s awareness of your current page, its ability to analyze lists, and how it can answer questions about custom fields. Learn how to extend Copilot by integrating your ISV documentation —empowering users to get answers about your extensions directly in a chat. We’ll also explore latest technology updates (MCP) and share forward-looking insights into bringing your own skills into the Copilot experience.

If you want quality, you need tests. If you want maintainability, you need tests. If you want...

Okay, okay, we get it, tests are great... But they’re also boring... 🙄

Well, what if we brought a breath of fresh air into them? Because that’s exactly what happened in the last 12 months. First, page scripting. Click, click, boom! Test Automated! Much simpler! And now another addition “Data-Driven Testing”. Build one AL test but cover multiple test cases! Less coding, more coverage! Fun!

Well … maybe not “fun”, but it’s something new and exciting! So if you’d like to know what these new testing practices are, and how you can “slot” them along your traditional AL tests, Join this session when we deep dive into all nuts and bolts of both new features.

This workshop isn’t about teaching you how to write a great test plan. It’s about teaching you how to get AI to write it for you!

We all know quality features need solid planning—but writing test plans takes time. That’s why we often skip them. But what if AI could handle the heavy lifting—turning your user stories into test plans—so you can focus on building better software?

In this workshop, you’ll learn exactly how to build that AI pipeline—from crafting the right prompts to designing workflows that deliver reliable results.

Here’s what we’ll cover:

• How to craft effective prompts that guide AI to deliver useful results
• The impact of different models and model settings like temperature on output quality
• How to design multi-step AI workflows
• Skills to automate other repetitive tasks using AI
  

By the end, you’ll have your own AI-driven process for drafting test plans—and the skills to build even more automation into your workflow.

Stop wasting time on what AI can do for you. Let’s build smarter.

Prerequisites:

• Bring your own laptop

Workshop date: Tue 10

Historically BC code was never written with testability in mind. When coding tests against this code, it leaves us with ample option than setting up a lot of data before the action under test can be exercised.

Ideally you probably would like to refactor your code to comply with SOLID principles and make your automated test effort overall much simpler. But often our vast code heritage and new projects ahead do not allow us to get that prioritized and leaves us with non-SOLID code to write test automation against.

Take-away

In this workshop you will learn how your code structure determines the complexity of your test code and how this especially affects your data setup. You will learn what options you have to make your test setup more efficient and what approach fits your code structure the best.
Be it data setup or - following SOLID principles - your production code structure

For whom is this session?

• BC developers, primarily
• BC development managers
• BC testsers involved in test automation

Agenda

• Introduction
• Data setup and code structure
• Hands-on introduction
• 12:30-13:30 - Lunch
• Hands-on 2 (continue on morning)
• Componentization
• Hands-on 3
• Discuss SOLID (including test doubles)

Prerequisites:

• Bring your own laptop

Workshop date: Wed 11 June

Wed 11 June is sold out!

Join us for a deep technical dive into the “Edit in Excel” feature in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. We’ll walk through the full journey of data—from the Page UI and AL code to OData and Excel—unpacking what really happens when users interact with data in Excel.

You’ll learn how to build and extend pages, generate and verify web services, and understand how filters and datasets carry over from BC to Excel. We’ll demonstrate CRUD operations directly from Excel, explore backend data flow to the NST, and share how to troubleshoot common Add-in issues.

We’ll also show how to use Excel Copilot to update data with a touch of AI magic and push changes back to BC. Whether you're supporting users, building extensions, or just curious about what’s under the hood—this session will equip you with the insights to make the most of this powerful integration.

Building high performing code is great, but then you find yourself hoping that the Job Queue runs that 1 job faster and faster.
Sometimes, that's not enough, and we need to be creative to get even MORE performance out of our BC.

Join me for this session to find out how using deadlock resilient, batch operation code can increase your Job Queue speeds anywhere from 40 to 90% faster. I'm proud of this new dangerously powerful pattern, and want to see how the community can all benefit.

During this session, we're going to put "Anything Copilot" to the test: from vectorized data to chat-ability. The goal is simple: if there's anything wrong with my Business Central, I can just ask about it.

We'll vectorize KQL queries, query BC Telemetry, interpret the results with Copilot, and add some extra cherries on top. Plus, we'll walk you through how to build such a solution yourself - from start to finish!

Join us to see how Copilot can revolutionize your Business Central experience by making data querying and interpretation as easy as having a conversation.

Telemetry in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central provides invaluable insights into performance, usage, security, and troubleshooting—whether for the core application, your AppSource apps, custom developments, or third-party extensions. Mastering telemetry means gaining the ability to proactively monitor system health, enhance customer experiences, optimize performance, and make data-driven decisions with confidence.

In this hands-on, full-day workshop, you'll learn how to set up and leverage telemetry effectively. We’ll explore what telemetry can do for you, dive into the power of Kusto Query Language (KQL) for analyzing telemetry data, and guide you through building custom dashboards with Azure Data Explorer.

By the end of the day, you won’t just understand telemetry—you’ll have the practical knowledge to start using it immediately. You may not walk away as an expert, but you’ll be well on your way to becoming one!

Prerequisites:

• Bring your own laptop

Workshop date: Tue 10 or Wed 11 June (This is a one-day workshop)

Wed 11 June is sold out!

This session provides best practices for optimizing performance in Business Central. We will cover key areas such as locking and concurrency, techniques for testing concurrent scenarios, and the use of full-text indexes. We will also explore how Scheduled Profiles can troubleshoot performance and how telemetry can be used to monitor and improve system behavior. Insights are based on real-world experience and internal practices at Microsoft.

Join this session to learn all things new in the 2025 release wave 1 (and a short recap on 2024 wave 2) of the Server and the Database. We will cover performance improvements, AL runtime, database, search, web services stack, and reporting.

Additionally, we'll touch on various smaller updates that, while not large enough for their own sessions, are still significant and worth noting.

We might also take a short look at some of the new things currently under development