Connecting to Business Central on-premises
BC on-premises is still being used by some clients. There are several reasons for this, and it includes a solution that most likely is unable to move to the cloud because of an existing ISV or customizations. Some companies will move to this version and then figure out their strategy for moving to the cloud, while other companies may choose to run BC on-premises for as long as they can. There are differences between on-premises and BC in the cloud functionality, but that is a whole other book.
BC on-premises
To learn more about Microsoft’s policy on the on-premises version of BC, go to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/terms/lifecycle-policy-on-premises.
There are different things you must do to connect to BC on-premises because of the issue we talked about previously relating to infrastructure. To connect an on-premises version of BC with Power Platform, you must install an on-premises...