"Set up Intelligent Cloud" option not showing for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central tenants

I was (still am!) seriously excited about the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 R2 - I mean, how can you not? This Intelligent Cloud thing is just superb! The simple premise of being able to sync your data to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and use the power of the cloud to get actionable insights is just too good to pass up on.

See my article, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: the perfect complement for Microsoft Dynamics GP users.

In fact, I already had an Office 365 Business Premium tenant provisioned with an instance of Dynamics 365 Business Central for IW. This is my playground, where I learn about the new stuff, where I try to build up my AL development skills, etc., (albeit at a turtle's pace 😊).

After updating my GP 2018 RTM instance to GP 2018 R2, I proceeded to setup the Intelligent Cloud Insights which, in a nutshell, involves setting up an integration between my on-premises Microsoft Dynamics GP application databases and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central using an Azure Data Factory - a hybrid data integration (ETL) cloud service - and an integration runtime that allows to control what companies within a Business Central tenant get synced to what companies in Microsoft Dynamics GP and when.

The steps are fairly clear in this Microsoft Docs article, Connect to the intelligent cloud with Dynamics 365 Business Central. But in particular, when I went to the Assisted Setup page to locate the Set up Intelligent Cloud option, I could not find that particular entry.

Business Central Assisted Setup guide

Upon exchanging a few emails with the Microsoft Dynamics GP Product Management team, it was noted that this feature - Set up Intelligent Cloud - is part of the Dynamics 365 October '18 release and is not in the currently deployed Business Central tenants. The October '18 release should be out any time now and once that update is applied, you should gain the ability to enable intelligent insights for your Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 R2 on-premises instances.

In the meantime, you can head over to Microsoft Demos to provision a Business Central demo environment with the October '18 release features that you can use to test and familiarize yourself with intelligent insights.

Until next post,

MG.-
Mariano Gomez, MVP

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