Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave1 (r.20) public preview is available

The preview of Business Central 2022 Wave1 (release 20) was released and made available today; you can test it both Online and on Docker.

It is only possible to create Sandbox preview and non-production environments; the preview environments are for demonstration purposes only and to have their functionality tested, they are removed at most thirty days after the official release of the product.

 

Business Central Online Sandbox Environment

E: IT Localization

 

Business Central On-prem and Sandbox Artifacts Docker Distributions

You can use ready-made docker artifacts; in this case it is possible to directly use the repository dedicated to product previews.

Artifact Preview Distribution

Get-BCArtifactUrl -storageAccount BcPublicPreview

 

Powershell script

#Install\Update Last Container Helper Module
install-module BCContainerHelper -force


#Example for US localization
#GetBCPreviewArtifact
$BCPublicPreviewArtifactUrl = Get-BCArtifactUrl -storageAccount BcPublicPreview –country us –type Sandbox -select Latest #GET LAST US Sandbox Preview

#https://BcPublicPreview.azureedge.net/sandbox/20.0.36751.0/us
Write-Host ($BCPublicPreviewArtifactUrl);


#PARAMETERS

$containerName = ‘bc20uspreview’ #LOWERCASE NAM
$password = ‘$Pass@ord!’
$securePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $password -AsPlainText -Force
$credential = New-Object pscredential ‘admin’, $securePassword
$auth = ‘UserPassword’


# *** CREATE BC20 US PREVIEW CONTAINER FROM PREVIEW IMAGE
New-BCContainer -accept_eula -containerName $containerName -useSSL -Auth NavUserPassword -artifactUrl $BCPublicPreviewArtifactUrl -Credential $navcredential -assignPremiumPlan -dns ‘8.8.8.8’ -isolationhyperv -includeAL -updateHosts

 

Web Client BC2020Wave1

 

Feature Management.. a lot!!

 

IC Setup Page..

 

Automate… everywhere…

Help…

 

Performance profiler!!! …Client Monitor 2.0!!

 

Job picking… and warehouse..

 

BC 2022 Wave1 Preview  –  Some features to test….

General

Projects & Jobs

IC-Onedrive-Teams

Web Client-Performance

For more details…

What’s planned for Business Central 2022 Wave1 – Roberto Stefanetti Blog – Microsoft MVP and MCT (robertostefanettinavblog.com)

One thought on “Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave1 (r.20) public preview is available

  • 7 March 2022 at 8:33 AM
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    I have an issue with docker, I think there is something to do with SQLExpress.
    …..
    Starting Local SQL Server
    WARNING: Waiting for service ‘SQL Server (SQLEXPRESS) (MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS)’ to
    start…
    Starting Internet Information Server
    Copying Database on localhost\SQLEXPRESS from CRONUS to tenant
    Taking database CRONUS offline
    Warning, exception when running: ALTER DATABASE [CRONUS] SET OFFLINE WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE
    Waiting… – retrying
    Warning, exception when running: ALTER DATABASE [CRONUS] SET OFFLINE WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE
    Waiting…… – retrying
    Error when running: ALTER DATABASE [CRONUS] SET OFFLINE WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE
    Putting database CRONUS back online
    Warning, exception when running: ALTER DATABASE [CRONUS] SET ONLINE
    Waiting… – retrying
    Warning, exception when running: ALTER DATABASE [CRONUS] SET ONLINE
    Waiting…… – retrying
    Error when running: ALTER DATABASE [CRONUS] SET ONLINE
    User does not have permission to alter database ‘CRONUS’, the database does not exist, or the database is not in a state that allows access checks.
    ALTER DATABASE statement failed.
    at Invoke-SqlCmdWithRetry, C:\Run\HelperFunctions.ps1: line 434
    at Copy-NavDatabase, C:\Run\HelperFunctions.ps1: line 203
    at , C:\Run\SetupDatabase.ps1: line 166
    at , C:\Run\navstart.ps1: line 122
    at , C:\Run\start.ps1: line 363
    at , : line 1
    New-BCContainer Telemetry Correlation Id: 16deb018-37d6-4796-a613-ad99464068ea
    Initialization of container bc20preview failed
    At C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\BcContainerHelper\3.0.2\ContainerHandling\Wait-NavContainerReady.ps1:42 char:17
    + … throw “Initialization of container $containerName failed” …
    + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo : OperationStopped: (Initialization …0preview failed:String) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Initialization of container bc20preview failed

    Do you have any insight on this?

    Thank you.

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