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Published inAug 2018
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Stefano Demiliani
Stefano Demiliani
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Stefano Demiliani

Stefano Demiliani is a Microsoft MVP on Business Applications and Azure, MCT, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), Azure Certified Architect, and an expert in other Microsoft related technologies. His main activity is architecting and developing enterprise solutions based on the entire stack of Microsoft technologies (mainly focused on ERP and serverless applications). He has worked with Packt Publishing on many IT books related to Azure cloud applications and Dynamics 365 Business Central and is a frequent speaker at IT conferences around Europe. In his free time Stefano is also a runner and a cyclist.
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Duilio Tacconi
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Duilio Tacconi

Duilio Tacconi is a Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Escalation Engineer at Microsoft EMEA Customer Support & Services (CSS). He joined Microsoft in 2008 after working in a customer IT department with a focus on system administration and development. Despite graduating with the highest score in Agricultural Science in 1996, he is in the ERP circuit since 1998 as developer and system implementer for several companies with Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies. Currently, he is a subject matter expert in EMEA for RDLC Report development and one of Microsoft EMEA CSS reference for Managed Service for Partners (MSfP). Three times IronMan finisher, Duilio lives in Cernusco Sul Naviglio (Italy) with his beloved wife Laura and his 2 years old son Leonardo.
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Dynamics 365 Business Central REST APIs


At the time of writing, Dynamics 365 Business Central offers 44 standard APIs available for integration with external applications.

REST APIs permit you to create any type of application in any code language that interacts with Dynamics 365 Business Central by using HTTP CRUD operations (create, retrieve, update, delete).

To start using the APIs, you need to authenticate through Dynamics 365 Business Central. There are essentially two ways to authenticate:

  • Basic authentication: Log in to Dynamics 365 Business Central, select the Users page, select the user you want to use, click on the Web Service Access Key field, and generate a key. The generated key will be the password that you have to use for authentication, together with your username. The API endpoint to use is the following: https://api.businesscentral.dynamics.com/v1.0/<yourtenantID>/api/beta.
  • Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication: This is what should be used in a production environment...
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Stefano Demiliani

Stefano Demiliani is a Microsoft MVP on Business Applications and Azure, MCT, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), Azure Certified Architect, and an expert in other Microsoft related technologies. His main activity is architecting and developing enterprise solutions based on the entire stack of Microsoft technologies (mainly focused on ERP and serverless applications). He has worked with Packt Publishing on many IT books related to Azure cloud applications and Dynamics 365 Business Central and is a frequent speaker at IT conferences around Europe. In his free time Stefano is also a runner and a cyclist.
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Duilio Tacconi

Duilio Tacconi is a Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Escalation Engineer at Microsoft EMEA Customer Support & Services (CSS). He joined Microsoft in 2008 after working in a customer IT department with a focus on system administration and development. Despite graduating with the highest score in Agricultural Science in 1996, he is in the ERP circuit since 1998 as developer and system implementer for several companies with Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies. Currently, he is a subject matter expert in EMEA for RDLC Report development and one of Microsoft EMEA CSS reference for Managed Service for Partners (MSfP). Three times IronMan finisher, Duilio lives in Cernusco Sul Naviglio (Italy) with his beloved wife Laura and his 2 years old son Leonardo.
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