Send us a text Johan Persson, Senior Specialist at Engage Group, and Laze Janev, D365 F&O Solution Architect at Rexel, join the show at DynamicsMinds 2025 to discuss the current state of Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations. We look at the history of the product and how it evolved over the years, they share insights on typical customers and implementa…

Send us a text Jonas Melgaard, Solution Architect for D365 and Power Platform at the Nordic Investment Bank, joins the show from DynamicsMinds 2025 to discuss Infrastrcture as Code at a financial institution. We look at the basic ideas and why they matter and the impact of AI, but mainly discuss the differences in the financial industry. You can fi…

Send us a text Taylor Brown, Group Program Manager at Microsoft, joins the show to discuss Windows containers. We discuss the origins and development of Windows containers, as well ass their impact on Microsoft's services and the broader tech community. He emphasizes the importance of open source collaboration and the integration of Windows contain…

Send us a text Freddy Kristiansen, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, joins the show from MVP Summit in Redmond to discuss DevOps in general and specifically AL-Go for GitHub as well as some container topics. We talk about the history and recent developments in AL-Go including security topics, why it has become so important for Microsoft and a lot …

Send us a text Kennie Pontoppidan, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, joins the show while at the MVP Summit at the Microsoft headquarter in Redmond to discuss reporting and analytics in Business Central. We start from the history and the evolution in the last couple of years before we dive into the most recent changes including how AI influen…

Send us a text Jesper Schulz-Wedde, Principal Software Architect at Microsoft, joins this episode to discuss the origin, the current state and the future of the Dynamics 365 Business Central co-creation initiative. This Open Source program has changed the way the application code of the product evolves, but that hasn't happened over night. Jesper s…

Send us a text Shannon Mullins, Björn Zahnow and Mats Necker join this episode directly at Directions EMEA in Vienna to discuss community events. They discuss the challenges this brings, the dos and don'ts for speakers, how Microsoft influences things in our ecosystem and the events they like most. And of course they touch upen Directions EMEA itse…

Send us a text Carme Cortada and Søren Friis Alexandersen join in another episode recorded directly at Directions EMEA to discuss Diversity in Dynamics, formerly known as Women in Dynamics. We discuss the recent change towards a broader focus on Diversity in general, why and how that happened and what it means for the organization in the future. We…

Send us a text Marco Heimeshoff, trainer, speaker and software developer, joins the show to discuss Domain-Driven Design. Where does it come from, why does it matter, how can you implement it and how can you get started with it. He also shares his community activities like the KanDDDinsky conference and the Virtual Domain-Driven Design Community at…

Send us a text Thorsten Hans, Senior Cloud Advocate at Fermyon, Microsoft MVP and Docker Captain, joins the show to discuss WebAssembly in general and specifically the news around Spin and SpinKube. We discuss when to use Spin, what the CNCF contribution of SpinKube means and what the future could bring in the WebAssembly world.…

Send us a text Natalie Karolak, Product Architect at COSMO CONSULT and MVP Alumni, and Krzysztof Bialowas, Business Central Team Leader at Dynaway and MVP, join this episode directly from day 2 of BC TechDays 2024. We discuss news and highlights of the conference, of course touch on AI and explain why we all like the conference so much.…

Send us a text Adrian Mouat, James Spurin and Nigel Poulton join to discuss the 2024 Docker Captains Summit in Lisbon, what we have seen and heard and how we expect that to impact the futureBy Tobias Fenster

Send us a text Vivian Voss, freelance Solution Architect and Microsoft Business Applications MVP, joins the show to talk about the second year of DynamicsMinds in Portoroz, Slovenia, as well as a couple of topics around the Power Platform like co-creation, pro-code support and the dynamics in fusion teams…

Send us a text Ralf Richter, Distinguished Cloud Consultant at shiftavenue and Community hero, comes on the show to discuss everything around Event Driven Architecture. We start with an overview and typical scenarios, look into differentiation from other architectural approaches, discuss drawbacks and adoption best practices and close it off with r…

Send us a text Josh Anglesea, Systems Architect at Xpedition and Microsoft MVP for Business Applications, joins this episode to talk about the integration between Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and the Microsoft Power Platform. We take a look at the overall picture and then dive into the details of the possibilities to integrate Canvas App…

Send us a text Artificial Intelligence is by far the most dominant topic in IT currently. In this episode, Jacob Winther, Design Lead for Business Central, and Mike Borg Cardona, Product Manager for everything productivity in Business Central, join the show to discuss AI in Business Central. We start by talking AI in general and how it will impact …

Send us a text A lot of customers and partners are working on and with Business Central Online every day, but why and how can it handle that load and get amazingly close to 100 % availability? In this episode, Christian Heide Damm, Cloud Architect and Esteban Ardaya Heckl, Principal Software Engineer, both working on the Business Central team, join…

Send us a text Shannon Mullins, Dmitry Katson and Steve Chinksy talk about their highlights of day 1 at Directions EMEA 2023 in Lyon: Of course, a lot of AI and Copilots, but also the scale of Business Central Online, the new partner programs announced by Microsoft and a lot more.By Tobias Fenster

Send us a text Carme Cortada, Leen Everaerts and Patricia Maia join this episode recorded on day 1 of Directions EMEA 2023 in Lyon. We talk about Women in Dynamics, how and why it was started, what the goals are and how it is progressing. We also talk about their T.H.I.S framework (check out https://www.womenindynamics.org/ to find out more) and wh…

Send us a text Recorded on the afternoon of day two of DockerCon 2023 in Los Angeles, Docker Captains Nigel Poulton, best-selling author and trainer, and Timo Stark, Software Engineer at Nginx, join this episode. We talk about the highlights and announcements of DockerCon, discuss Wasm and it's impact, sprinkle in some Kubernetes and end with why w…

Send us a text Urs Enzler, software architect, shares his insights about the challenges with software development effort estimation. We talk about general aspects, we dive a bit into diseconomy of scale and complexity, we detour into monoliths vs. microservices and what the differences between estimation of projects and products are. In the end, Ur…

Send us a text Bert Verbeek and Luc van Vugt, both Dynamics 365 Business Central MVPs working for 4PS, join another "live" episode from the BC TechDays. We talked about the highlights of the day, the news of the keynote, the impact of Artificial Intelligence on development and developers and what else was interesting.…

Send us a text Jens Møller-Pedersen, Engineering Manager, and Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan, Principal Program Manager, join the podcast in this episode to talk about how they shape the future of the parts of Business Central they are responsible for. We talk about how they decide what to do (and what not to do) and when to do it, how to figure out how m…

Send us a text Sparked by a Twitter discussion, AJ Ansari, COO at DSWi and Eric "waldo" Wauters, Partner at iFacto, join this episode to discuss the opportunities, but also challenges if we had a way to use VS Code in the browser for BC. We discuss the scenarios that would be unlocked, but also how it might cause problems. In the end, we briefly di…

Send us a text On this episode recorded in the Microsoft Germany headquarter in Munich, I am joined by M365 princess Luise Freese and Ralf Richter, one of the founders of the Azure Developer Community Day. We talk about the highlights of this first in-person iteration of the event and learn a bit about the background and the amount of work that Ral…

Send us a text Michael Irwin, Sr. Manager DevRel at Docker and former Docker Captain, joins in this episode to talk about where Docker as a company and as an Open Source contributor is right now and shares his thoughts on Kubernetes and container orchestration. Then we go into WebAssembly, one of the most interesting tech topics at the moment and h…

Send us a text On the 3rd episode from Directions EMEA 2022 in Hamburg, organizers James Crowter and Torben Kragelund are joining the podcast to share their highlights of this years conference, what happens behind the scenes, thoughts on the keynotes and community in general as well as the new Directions community portal. We also discuss the upcomi…

Send us a text On day 2 of Directions EMEA 2022, Luise Freese and Jeremy Vyska again join live in Hamburg and we discuss the highlights of day 1 and 2. But very quickly we go quite far off topic and have good fun with it. We talk about the differences between Directions EMEA as a partner event and other more community-driven events, we discuss the …

Send us a text Tatjana Pupko, AJ Ansari and Krzysztof Bialowas join this episode directly from Directions EMEA 2022 in Hamburg to discuss their highlights of day 1. AJ missed the keynote while being stuck in the elevator, but we still managed to talk about it, including the expanding Business Central horizon with the Power Platform, D365 Sales and …

Send us a text This is a very brief episode where I want to say thank you to Søren Alexandersen for an amazing intro and outro, and to lovo.ai for the generated spoken voice!By Tobias Fenster

Send us a text Eva Dupont, master of all things Business Central documentation, joins in this episode to talk about running an open documentation repository with a focus on community contributions. She explains how and why we all benefit if the community becomes more active with contributions to the documentation, she shares her thoughts on what ma…

Send us a text On the second "live" episode from the 2022 BC TechDays, AJ Kauffmann and Michael Megel join the podcast to talk about their highlights and insights from the conference. We discuss their experience during their own workshops, concerns about the change adoption speed in our community, and of course, we celebrate the amazing TechDays co…

Send us a text Eric "Waldo" Wauters and Luc van Vugt join this "live" episode to talk about the first session day at the 2022 BC TechDays. We talk about the content, mainly in the keynote, about the impact the news will have on our community and the tech stack that we use and we also discuss why BC TechDays is such a special conference.…

Send us a text Magnus Mårtensson, CPO at Devoteam, Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, joins in this episode to talk about Azure. But not the typical "tech stuff", instead what else you need to consider and manage when you move to Azure. We go from people to finance, security and compliance and also discuss how to continue innovating once you made…

Send us a text In the very first episode, Freddy Kristiansen, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft in Copenhagen, is sharing his thoughts on CI/CD and containers for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. We go from the basics through steps to implementing CI/CD to the latest additions in preview and even the disclosure of a brand-new feature that h…

Send us a text This is the trailer episode for "Window on Technology", explaining what I want to do in this podcastBy Tobias