Migrate to Business Central online
Migration of on-premises data (Business Central, Dynamics GP, SL, NAV) to Business Central online. It answers questions about the migration process and phases, choosing between full migration and reimplementation, running and managing cloud migration, GP-specific data mapping, and common requirements and FAQs.
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Overview
This section explains how to move from an on-premises system to Business Central online. It starts with the choice of approach: a full data migration, a custom migration, or a reimplementation that brings over only essential data, for example with configuration packages. Source systems named are Business Central, Dynamics GP, Dynamics SL and Dynamics NAV.
The overview page describes the end-to-end process in five phases, from preparation through completion and go-live. It also covers the components involved: cloud migration setup, data replication, data upgrade, Azure Data Factory pipelines, the self-hosted integration runtime and the intelligent cloud permission set. The “Managing cloud migration” page then covers day-to-day work on the Cloud Migration Management page.
Start with the on-premises migration page to pick an approach, then read the overview for the process. Use the FAQ for requirements, data limits, SQL connection strings and permissions. If you come from Dynamics GP, the GP page covers how data such as fiscal periods, chart of accounts and inventory is carried over.
Key points
- Approaches: full data migration, custom migration, or reimplementation with essential data only (configuration packages).
- The migration runs in five phases, from preparation through completion and go-live.
- Key components: Azure Data Factory pipelines, self-hosted integration runtime, and the intelligent cloud permission set.
- The Cloud Migration Management page runs data replication and data upgrade, and handles cloud migration setup and user mapping.
- Troubleshooting actions include a diagnostic run and resetting cloud data.
- The FAQ covers system requirements, data limits, SQL connection strings, extension data migration and data compression.
- GP migration maps fiscal periods to accounting periods and covers chart of accounts, dimensions, customers, vendors, inventory and checkbook transactions.
- Supported on-premises sources: Business Central, Dynamics GP, Dynamics SL and Dynamics NAV.
Learn pages
- Business Central on-premises to online migration overview: This article provides an overview of how the migration works from Business Central on-premises and the necessary tasks for completing the migration.
- FAQ about Migrating to Business Central Online: Get answers to frequently asked questions about migrating to Business Central online from on-premises solutions, including supported versions and data limits.
- Managing cloud migration: Describes the Cloud Migration Management page in Business Central.
- Migrate Dynamics GP data to the cloud: Learn how to migrate to the cloud from Dynamics GP using an assisted setup guide in Business Central online. Move historical data to Azure Data Lake.
- Migrate on-premises data to Business Central online: Learn to set up cloud data migration to Business Central online from supported Dynamics versions and Business Central on-premises, managed by Azure Data Factory.
Business Central pages and reports
The pages, reports and queries this hub’s Learn pages name (ms.search.form, API reference), joined to the code by exact object id (data/index/docs-objects.json); a page shows the table it runs on.
- Page 4003 “Intelligent Cloud Management” · captioned “Cloud Migration Management” · on Table 4001 “Hybrid Replication Summary”
Learn also names 1 object with no object page: page/2502.
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