Talks on Wingate365

Mission Implementation - post go-live stabilisation

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:47:00 +0000

This was fun - Mission Implementation - post go-live - be sure to check out the other videos from the series also.. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Community: Posts | LinkedIn

In this latest #MissionImplementation episode, Microsoft #MVP Andrew Wingate focuses on one of the most critical - and often underestimated - phases of any #ERP project: post go-live stabilization. While many projects are delivered on time and on scope, long-term success often breaks down in the months that follow, when ownership is unclear, adoption stalls, and confidence in the system begins to slip.

Andy walks through practical strategies to help organizations move from go-live into a stable, sustainable business-as-usual state. From defining ownership and structuring hypercare to improving user adoption and maintaining governance, this session reframes #go-live not as the finish line, but as the true starting point for realizing value.

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.

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?)

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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.

DynamicsMinds 2025 - PortoroÅ¾, Slovenia

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:52:00 +0000

Back in May I presented two collaborative talks at Dynamics Minds;

The 4 Pillars Of BC To PP Integration - together with Phil Kermeen
Page Scripting Tool for Acceptance Testing - together with Jose Miguel Azevedo

Andy and Phil

Andy and Jose

Both talks were on the last day - one in the 1st slot and one in the last slot of the day/conference! But someone has to do it :)

DynamicsMinds is a standout event in the tech communityâ€™s calendar. Nothing short of extraordinary. A combination of a phenomenal organising team, a breath taking Adriaticâ€‘sea setting, and an exceptional breadth of content spanning the full MS Business Applications stack from Powerâ€¯Apps, Businessâ€¯Central, Finance & Operations, and beyond.

Held in PortoroÅ¾, Slovenia, in a fairy-taleâ€‘like convention centre overlooking the Adriatic Sea, DynamicsMinds 2025 brought over 1,000 attendees, more than 200 sessions, close to 200 speakers, and 80+ MVPs into one vibrant, communityâ€‘powered gathering.

Beyond the sessions, the charm of Dynamics Minds lies in its atmosphere of warm hospitality and the openness of fellow participants giving a unique sense of camaraderie.

Here is a short summary of my talks

The 4 Pillars Of BC To PP Integration - together with Phil Kermeen

In this session we had a high level look through a number of integration techniques, starting with a simple lo-code approach and ranging up through Virtual Tables, BC Data Sync and onto Calling the API in code, giving you the reasoning behind why you'd want to use the various techniques.

What I learned

This was the 3rd and final time giving this introductory level 101 session; as we were on the last day attendance was a bit thin on the ground - non-the less some good post talk chat was had!

Page Scripting Tool for Acceptance Testing - - together with Jose Miguel Azevedo

In this session we showed how the page scripting tool in the Business Central web client lets users record interactions with the user interface (UI), such as opening pages, selecting actions and filling in fields. We went on to look at how can then replay the recording to show the exact actions in the UI and as the recording is replayed, how you receive real-time status feedback for success or failure.

What I learned

This was also on the last day, in the last session of the day! But none the less some great chat at the end of the talk that gave us the idea to use AI to create the page script YAML files - which we planned to present at the next conference.

Downloads

You can grab a copy of these presentations here.

Letâ€™s setup the Sales Order Agent in Business Central - Experts Live UK User Group

Sat, 03 May 2025 11:12:00 +0000

This week I presented at Experts Live, big thanks to the team for having me along to this event.

The session was mostly focused on a demo of the Sales Order Agent - which went as well as you can expect any live demo! But we did have fun with it!

Letâ€™s setup the Sales Order Agent in Business Central

In this session we have a look at the new Copilot powered Sales Order Agent thatâ€™s part of the Dynamics 365 Business Central feature set for 2025 release wave 1.

As part of the session I will show the steps to setup the agent and we can try some live processing of orders through the agent! What could possibly go wrong?? ðŸ˜…

At the end of the session you will know how to setup the agent and have a better understanding of the capabilities of this new tool.

What I learned

As always more prep time is better than less prep time! Demos can and do often go wrong - unless you do the screen shot demo you are never safe from the Demo Gods! Keep Calm and Carry On is the mantra ðŸ˜…

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Business Central + Power Pages = TRUE - ColorCloud 2025

Sat, 03 May 2025 10:23:00 +0000

What an amazing conference ColorCloud was https://colorcloud.rocks/

I was thrilled to present a join session with Ulrikke AkerbÃ¦k https://www.linkedin.com/in/ulrikke/

Here is a copy of the slides for download PDF or PPTX format.

With the introduction of Virtual Tables in Dataverse and the support for them in Power Pages, came a new opportunity to connect with an let an external audience interact with Business Central through Power Pages.

Andy and Ulrikke set out to learn together with you what these two products can be used for. We will simply follow explorative logic, asking each other questions on the fly and answering them as they go.

Getting Started with Page Scripting - Days of Knowledge UK - 2025

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:01:00 +0000

I was very pleased to speak at the Days of Knowledge UK conference in recently. Here is a copy of the session details and slides for download.

Getting Started with Page Scripting - Andrew Wingate's Speaker Profile @ Sessionize

Page Scripting is a powerful recent feature in Dynamics 365 Business Central. It has the potential to enhance productivity for consultants and end users for data entry, testing and some automation capabilities.

TLS/SSL for Web Services

Sun, 19 Apr 2015 21:40:00 +0000

TLS protection should be a standard security policy these days. It’s common place for servers hosting web pages and web services.

Certificates are inexpensive and relatively simple to setup and use. The basic outline is that you generate a private key on your server, pass this to the CA. They will use this to generate the Certificate and public key. They send you back the certificate and publish the public key on their servers. The certificate, private key and the CA’s authority chain certificates are installed on your server and bound/configures to be utilised within the the webservice in question.

A 3rd party browser pointed to your https URL will request the certificate, which it uses to lookup the host servers details with the CA and obtain the public key. The public key is then used by the browser to lock the session key that it generates. Only the specific private key can unlock and obtain the session key that was locked by the related public key. Which is what the host server does and then both machines have identical keys to use for all further communication in that session.

Here are the main elements and terms you may come across when setting up SSL protection using a Certificate Authority (CA)

Machines: