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How AI Rebuilt This Blog: Blogger to Hugo in One Sitting

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000

This blog has been running on Blogger since 2005. That is not a typo. Twenty-one years of posts about BlackBerry keyboard shortcuts, Ubuntu upgrades, NAS backups, and eventually Business Central, all sitting on a platform Google has clearly stopped caring about. If you are reading this on blog.wingate365.com, you are reading it on a site that did not exist a few hours ago, built almost entirely by an AI agent while I sat next to it working on another project .

Fixing Email for Guest Users in D365 Business Central

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:41:00 +0000

If you manage any Dynamics 365 Business Central clients where users sign in as Entra B2B guests (aka M365 Guest Users) you've probably hit this issue: the built-in email connectors don't work properly for guest users.

The use of guest accounts in BC is becoming more common due to organisations with a multi-tenancy strategy or where companies are looking for very clear separation of data access & governance. The expectation is simply that users email will just work in BC guest or not!

Trying out GitHub Copilot Agent for a Functional Task?

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:35:00 +0000

I've been using GitHub for a while https://github.com/andywingate but had never touched its agentic features. Working on the Nubimancy project gave me a good excuse. This is a practical breakdown of what I used, what it saved me, and where human judgement still mattered.

Full context is in the Nubimancy project log - this post is about the tools and the approach.

The Task

Validate ~75 CSV schema files against Business Central master data import requirements. Check field names, required fields, data types, and format compatibility. Important, methodical, time-consuming if done manually. There are a number of extensions in the mix also on top of the standard BC tables. I gave it to a GitHub Copilot agent. Here's exactly what I did.

AI context is king - BC MCP for MCS Agents - London D365PPUG - Feb 2026

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:31:00 +0000

What if your AI tool understood your business data, would you get a better output from it? In short yes - context is king when dealing with AI.

AI Context is King - D365PPUG London, February 2026

I had a great evening presenting at D365PPUG London last night - thanks to the organisers for having me, brilliant crowd as always.

The session was about Business Central's built-in MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, and why I think it's one of the more exciting developments in the BC ecosystem right now.

The core problem: generic AI doesn't know your business. Ask it about your customers, your open orders, your stock levels - it can't help. MCP fixes that. It's the standard that lets AI tools connect to external systems, and Microsoft have built an MCP server directly into Business Central. No custom development, no third-party tooling - it's there today.

The demo gods were mostly kind 😅 and the audience questions were fantastic - lots of interest in security, licensing, and whether you can build custom MCP tools (yes, you can - that's a whole other session).

Here is a copy of the slides shared.

BC Community 2025 Wrapped - Blogs, Videos, etc

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:25:00 +0000

The Power of AI-Assisted Data Analysis

How good is AI at helping with data analysis?

Last year, I explored this question by analysing blog activity in our BC RSS WhatsApp Community -check out that post here.

Delivering BC in the Age of AI - Which Soft Skills Still Matter?

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:12:00 +0000

Some do matter more that others now with AI tools levelling the playing field - but what is the right balance for you (or your team?)

.. Just dropping this placeholder here for now...

Session Slides Link: Delivering BC in the Age of AI - Which Soft Skills Still Matter - Phil and Andy

South Coast Summit 2025 - AI-Driven Page Scripting: Practical Use Cases for Dynamics 365

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 21:12:00 +0000

At South Coast Summit 2025, JosÃ© Miguel Azevedo and I had the opportunity to share something we've been working on since our last Page Scripting talk at Dynamics Minds. Using AI to transform how we work with page scripting in Dynamics 365 ERP.

The Core Idea

Page scripting and task recording have been around for a while in Business Central and Finance & Operations respectively. They're powerful tools for capturing business processes, automating testing, and documenting workflows. But creating and maintaining these scripts? That's always been the tedious part or cost prohibitive part if you really wanted to scale the volume of test scripts.