Microsoft pauses the Business Central major release rollout almost every time.
This is not a bug in the process. It is the process working as designed, and it
has been that way since at least 2020. The question is not whether a pause will
happen, ...
Update 28.1 for Business Central 2026 Release Wave 1 is available. Expense Agent
and Expense Management The headline addition in 28.1 is the Expense Agent,
entering public preview alongside a new Expense Management module. These two
pieces go toge...
A previous post on this blog treated “model multipliers” and “usage-based
billing” as if they describe the same cost problem. A sharp comment on LinkedIn
pointed out they do not. This post sets that straight, including one insight
that changes the...
GitHub Copilot’s move to usage-based billing with model multipliers taking
effect June 1 is a good moment to step back and ask a question most AL
developers have not had to think about seriously: Is Copilot the right tool for
every AI-assisted tas...
The Business Central Launch Edition for 2026 release wave 1 went live on April
1, 2026: Thirty-seven sessions, just under ten hours, all free at aka.ms/BCLE. I
covered the release notes a few weeks ago: Business Central 2026 Release Wave 1:
A Mix ...
When you need to expose data from Business Central, the first question is not
how, but what kind of interaction you need: Are you writing data into the
system, or reading data out of it? That single distinction determines whether
you should use an...
A practical look at where GitHub Copilot saves real time in AL development for
Business Central, with examples from Agent, Chat, Ask, and Edit mode. … Read
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[https://thinkaboutit.be/2026/03/where-github-copilot-actually-saves-time-in-al-proj...
This week I had the opportunity to present a session at the Global Dynamics 365
Bootcamp. The session was called: Beyond the Ledger: Explore Business Central’s
Data Analytics with Power BI The title already says quite a lot about where we
are as a...