From the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and NAV Blogs: Azure VMs; OData URLs; Extensions; Debugger

In this week's Microsoft Dynamics 365-NAV blog roundup:

• Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise: Why not resize your Azure VMs?
• How to get OData URLs with company names that contain forward slashes
• "Git" going with extensions
• Connection error while launching debugger in NAV

Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise: Why not resize your Azure VMs?

On Stefano Demiliani's Technical Blog, he wrote about his experience moving a customer's on-premises infrastructure to infrastructure as a service (IaaS) on the Azure cloud.

He stated that they've used Azure virtual machines (VMs) for hosting their Microsoft Dynamics NAV databases and servers. They sized the VMs by increasing the size by two. He stated that the reason for that decision was that the customers stated, "We want to move to Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise soon, so I don't want to have problems with resources."
Demiliani remarked on this view and its implications:

One of the main benefits of a cloud-based infrastructure is that you can scale (horizontally or vertically) accordingly to your needs, so why using (and paying for) an enormous Azure machine for NAV or SQL Server when we’re for example in the developing phase and few users are working with the ERP?

I think that everyone in the IT field should work with Azure VMs by scaling them as needed. And scaling a VM in Azure is very simple.

You can read more about resizing you Azure VMs here.

How to get OData URLs with company names that contain forward slashes

On the Dynamics NAV Team Blog, Mohamad Vajid ...