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Administrating Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Online

By : Andrey Baludin
Book Image

Administrating Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Online

By: Andrey Baludin

Overview of this book

This book features all the information you need to get started with administrating Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Online. It contains detailed information about the admin portal and cloud migration process, all based on real usage experience. The book starts by covering the data migration process for developers, which will show you how to organize the data without code. You’ll also learn how the admin portal can be useful if you want to export a database copy, restore a backup, and set up telemetry to get detailed information about the call stack and operation statuses. As you progress, you’ll learn how to check your Business Central SaaS environment details, create new and different types of environments, and notifications, and keep your cloud data within limits. Later, you’ll explore how to set up cloud migration from an on-premise environment to SaaS, run the migration, upgrade data, and fix problems if something goes wrong. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create new production and sandbox environments, restore them from backups, analyze environment telemetry, and confidently migrate your data to the cloud.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1: Dynamics 365 Business Central Admin Center
9
Part 2: Dynamics 365 Business Central Cloud Migration Tool

Chapter 10: Migration Process

In the previous chapter, we completed the cloud migration setup. This action does not mean that your data is already in the cloud even if you see your on-premise company on the list. Here, we will demystify the migration process and how your data moves from on-premise to the cloud and upgrade the process because the table schema might be different in a newer environment. Also, you will learn how to automate migration runs.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:  

  • Data migration
  • Data upgrade
  • Typical fails and how to resolve them
  • Automating data migration

By the end of this chapter, you will understand how to set up cloud migration so that you can move your data from an on-premise environment to the cloud.