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Administrating Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Online

You're reading from   Administrating Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Online A practical guide to SaaS administration and migration from your on-premise Business Central environments to the cloud

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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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Andrey Baludin Andrey Baludin
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Cloud migration APIs

If you need to run the setup for multiple customers, databases, or environments, you can use APIs to automate your work. They have been implemented since Business Central 2022 wave 1. In Chapter 7, you learned how to call APIs in different ways, so I just describe which APIs are available and which parameters they have. You can read additional details about cloud migration APIs in Microsoft Docs at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/cloudmigrationapi/cloud-migration-api-overview.

In the next chapter, you will also find a PowerShell script that uses all these APIs.

Cloud migration setup API

As we need to perform several actions to complete the setup, this API also consists of three steps, as detailed next.

First step

Here, we input basic parameters—source migration product, connection string, SQL Server type, and the company where we want to run the setup, as follows:

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