For 6 weeks I had the pleasure of working as a technical consultant at VanRoey. Here I had towork on an internal project. I learned how to work with the Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform and Power tools like Power Apps.
I was tasked with creating an app that would allow the functional consultants to get an overview of the versions of all installed apps from each tenant's Business Central environment.
Currently the functional went to each customer's admin center to retrieve this information, but this was anything but efficient. so it was time for something better.
First I had to research what already existed to obtain and map this data. Soon I discovered that not much existed. There were no Microsoft APIs that could give me the data all at once, so I had to find something else.
Eventually I decided to write a script that addressed different API endpoints of each tenant's Business Central environment, and combine the useful data I got back from them into a json file, which I then retrieved via a power app.
Now VanRoey can get an overview of each customer's installed Business Central apps through a Power App. They can easily filter and search this data through this app and even go to the admin center for updating.
