As we are gearing up for new release of business central and already the buzz is started for new version . Here I will list few upcoming features which I am looking forward in new version.
Have you guys remember my tweet regarding the restoration of environment .Following is the tweet
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So in month of November 2020 I faced this problem as due to some issue production environment got hanged and user abruptly close the session .Post that data in some tables got messy and couldn’t recover in time and then I need to contact MS guys to restore environment which took almost a week and till that time customer transaction got halted. That time question came to my mind how customer will handle all these things by going forward and MS guy responded me that time that this feature is going to added in Admin center in upcoming release.
Now with released of Business central 17.3 this feature become reality .It is still in preview mode.
Lets look at how to restore the environment
To restore environment you need to have access to admin center.
Go to Admin center.
Select Environment
3. Click on Restore
4. In the restore environment window select date and time to which you want to restore the environment.
5. Select the type of environment such as sandbox or production.
6. Finally Name for restored environment.
7. Hit the restore
Important points
Backups are available for past 30 days
The number of restore attempts will be limited to 10 attempts per environment/per month.
The recovery is allowed within a maximum of three immediately preceding versions of Business Central (including minor and major updates), but still within a maximum of 30 days (from the point of the environment creation)
Recently faced a problem of table locking which goes in not responding stage and finally user close the tab ,but when user opens the session again it actually messed up the critical data (It seems unimaginable force was roaming that time when this happens). Eventually after trying couple of days for data correction I need to contact Microsoft to restore the database.
When this happening my customer asked me if something like this happen then can we kill or cancel the session of user and then I came across this feature of Business Central admin center.
How to access admin center
This can be by adding tenant id with your business central URL as below
In this portal you can see all the environment including sandbox.I can see this is your control center for managing business central on cloud.
Now next step is click on required environment which will navigate to other screen.
To see all the session click on session
This will show you call the required session for the selected environment.
Now to cancel the session select the required session and click on Cancel session .This will kill the required session.
Another advantage of this screen is that it show other information like which operation is going on ,which object is involved in current operation and duration of current operation.
Hope this will help you to cancel the unwanted session
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