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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 29/08/2026

I also asked #Copilot for a suggested demo running order and talking points and got those too! I saved about half a day!

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 29/08/2026

Perhaps I’m late to the party, but I had to do a demo of #MSDyn365BC to a prospect this week. Remembering something I’d seen @mynavblog.bsky.social do, I fed the parameters of the demo, and the prospect’s web address to #Copilot and asked for demo data in Config. pack format and it did it! Amazing!

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 23/08/2026

He does NOT want to get engaged. He wants something else I fear.

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 20/08/2026

How did you get familiar with it, Miljan? Did you just have buy more credits?

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 19/08/2026

Any of my #MSDyn365BC folks demo’d the Purchase Agent? I’ve messed around but ran out of credits before I’d got very far

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 16/08/2026

I miss #MSDyn365BC Twitter so it was excellent to finally meet my friend from those days, @thedoubleh.dev and his lovely wife face-to-face for lunch in Edinburgh.

Henrik and I grinning at the camera in The Cumberland Bar in Edinburgh

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 16/08/2026

I thought you’d disappeared! I’ll wave if i see you!

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 14/08/2026

I hadn’t realised that Data Braider is now free for #MSDyn365BC If you’ve ever bemoaned the very basic APIs that are available out of the box in BC, it’s the extension for you Thanks @bc.jeremy.vyska.info and @stefanmaron.com

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 01/08/2026

Thinking with eternal gratitude about @luisefreese.bsky.social today as, having started a new job, I set up Outlook for inbox zero. Possibly the only literally life-changing thing I’ve done with technology www.m365princess.com/blogs/overco...

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How can we overcome the pain with email?

Inbox Zero? I reached this goal, inbox zero. I wrote a tutorial how everyone can achieve that, too. Why is this important? For several reasons:

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 01/08/2026

Plummeting licence fee payers. They’re on a very tight budget. It’s a death spiral. People decided that hearing both sides of an issue and therefore hearing the side they didn’t like was bias and voted with their feet.

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 31/07/2026

Something like that. “Something something engage” I expect

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 31/07/2026

Yammer ought to work. But somehow just doesn’t.

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 31/07/2026

Oh God! ANOTHER site?? It’s like the definition of insanity: doing the same thing and expecting a different result!

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 30/07/2026

Same thing happened with the #MSDyn355BC community. It was great on Twitter and we really tried here but a lot of MVPs went to LinkedIn and stayed there. Issue being that your clients are likely to be on LinkedIn so you can’t really ask for help there. Which begs the question…what’s it for?

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 29/07/2026

And one for the monitors!

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 29/07/2026

I bought one that clamps to my desk, so now I have tons of room to pile up all sorts of crap!

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 28/07/2026

Any Business Central manufacturing experts out there? I need to brush up. Who’s got good content? #MSDyn365BC

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 28/07/2026

I took your recommendation and bought a pair! 🙂 Very happy with them

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I mean, sure, if you’re a fan of it, but there’s a time and a place.

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 10/07/2026

I like the idea of the portable screen. Might do that. What make is it?

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 10/07/2026

That’s the way I’m leaning too. I’ve a colleague with one of those big curved screens and his screen shares are a nightmare. Plus: it’s much cheaper!

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 09/07/2026

I’m returning laptops and screens to my old employer tomorrow. My new employer has sent me a single small screen. I’m currently working with two Dell 24” monitors and my laptop (16”). Any recommendations for replacements. What are the big curved screens like? Any good?

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 09/07/2026

There are tools in the toolbox. I’m not saying anything about how sharp or blunt they are, merely that he’s one of them.

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 07/05/2026

Nowadays we have to pay to beta test it for them.

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 07/05/2026

I keep thinking about orphaned records. It’s a whole can of worms!

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 07/05/2026

Stand down! (As if anyone was stood up!) It’s browser settings. Even copilot says, “Yes this IS frustrating!”

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 07/05/2026

Ah!!! Browser settings!!!!

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 07/05/2026

That was my thinking too. But surely “AI can do it?” 🙄

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 07/05/2026

It’s proper system down stuff.

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 07/05/2026

Bit bigger than a pebble but generally smaller than a boulder. You probably call it a “rawk”

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 07/05/2026

I had a co-worker get very confused by an airline website. It appeared to not be taking her booking so she ended up booking four times. Needless to say by the fourth time the seat had doubled in price. (easyJet, UK)

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 07/05/2026

Oh jings! And there I am out in the field, telling customers “this never happens in live!”

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 06/05/2026

I have a customer wanting to use the Power BI template reports for #MSDyn365BC Can anyone tell me how I can get the dates to display as UK format dates? It seems to be a very elusive setting if it exists at all!

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 03/04/2026

Thanks! MS. Not known for clarity (esp. around pricing/licensing)

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 03/04/2026

I read that twice and didn’t see anything about how one migrates a Gen1 dataflow to Gen2. Am I missing something?

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 01/04/2026

I had to uninstall MS Copilot in order to allow Excel to recognise my mouse clicks. Good job lads. Good job.

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 28/03/2026

Excellent suggestion. I’ll pass it along! Thank you!

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 28/03/2026

Mate’s in the middle of a go-live and has found a weird bug They have some custom roles set up. A user has found that in one role they can create a new Project Planning Line but in another, they can’t. Error says Project Task No. Is required. Permissions are by user so what’s going on? #MSDyn365BC

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 10/03/2026

One hundred percent. 🤣🤣🤣

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 09/03/2026

Yeah. You sit a short test for renewal (which is free). Now i have to pay £106 and sit the exam again. I’m an idiot! 🤣🤣🤣

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Matthew Perren @matnav.co.uk · 06/03/2026

Yeah it was about Intercompany setup and operation. Something I’ve done a fair bit of. I refreshed my previous stuff to reflect all the streamling and improvements in BC over recent years.

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