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Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803234809

Length 234 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Dynamics 365

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Enterprise Resource Planning

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Andrey Baludin

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Dynamics 365 Business Central Admin Center

2. Chapter 1: Overview of the Dynamics 365 Business Central Administration Center FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Managing Business Central Environments

4. Chapter 3: Environment Details and Notifications Setup

5. Chapter 4: Telemetry Setup and Analysis

6. Chapter 5: Reported Outages and Operations

7. Chapter 6: Tenant Capacity Management

8. Chapter 7: Admin Center APIs

9. Part 2: Dynamics 365 Business Central Cloud Migration Tool

10. Chapter 8: Cloud Migration Schema and Limitations

11. Chapter 9: Cloud Migration Setup

12. Chapter 10: Migration Process

13. Chapter 11: The Real Migration Experience

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Data migration

The full migration process is divided into two stages:

Data migration
Data upgrade

You can run data migration several times, for example, by synchronizing your companies from on-premise to SaaS one by one, by cleaning your data in the destination point, and by only upgrading your data at the end as a final step, when you are sure that everything has been correctly migrated.

Microsoft describes the migration process with the following schema:

Figure 10.1 – The data migration process

You might have a question about the per database tables synchronization. Take a look at Figure 10.2. It is from Microsoft Business Central Launch Event 2022 wave 1. What if we sync the Company 1 tables with the per database tables and then sync the Company 2 tables with the per database tables again? If we overwrite the per database tables each time, data could have been already changed in such tables and links could have become broken...

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