Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant Course MB-800T00 (MB-800 Exam Prep)
How do organizations streamline financials, supply chain, and operations in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central? By having skilled functional consultants who can implement, configure, and optimize Business Central to meet real-world business needs.
The MB-800T00 Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant course prepares you to take on that role. Across five days of expert-led training, you’ll learn to configure core application areas, set up security, integrate with Microsoft 365, and support customers with essential business processes. The course is aligned with official MB-800 exam objectives and maps to the Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant Associate certification.
After completing this course, you’ll be ready to implement and support key areas of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. The training also prepares you for the MB-800 certification exam, validating your role as a functional consultant.
- Configure Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central core functionality
- Implement financial management, sales, purchasing, and inventory processes
- Set up users, permissions, and security roles
- Integrate Business Central with Microsoft 365 apps
- Deliver tailored solutions that meet customer requirements
This course is designed for functional consultants, business analysts, and implementation specialists who want to configure and customize Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for clients or employers. It is also well-suited to those pursuing certification as a Business Central Functional Consultant Associate and professionals with experience in accounting, business processes, or ERP systems.
A Dynamics 365 Business Central core functional consultant must have applied knowledge of Business Central and have an understanding of industry terminology, priorities, standards, methodologies, and best practices. The consultant must have applied knowledge of meeting business needs by using Dynamics 365 Business Central, including basic understanding of financial management, sales, purchasing, and inventory. The consultant's knowledge should include a comprehensive understanding of the Business Central application's role in relationship to the Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 suites of applications.
- Extend trials, access the admin center, and manage sandbox/production environments.
- Configure tenant notifications, monitor telemetry, and analyze performance (Profiler, Performance Toolkit, BCPT).
- Export databases, enable features, and use APIs for automation.
- Create and manage companies (blank, demo, manufacturing, or copy from existing).
- Perform data migration: Excel import, assisted setup, templates, configuration worksheet, and journal opening balances.
- Migrate on-premises data with Cloud Migration tool and APIs.
- Manage users, groups, permissions, roles, profiles, and auditing.
- Configure email accounts, sending profiles, and document distribution.
- Integrate with Outlook (logging, add-ins, invoices from appointments) and Teams (BC app, cards, tabs).
- Create workflows manually or from templates, including approval flows with Power Automate.
- Manage approval requests: submit, delegate, approve/reject, and handle overdue requests.
- Integrate Business Central with Power Platform:
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- Power Automate flows (approvals, journals, documents, scheduled/button flows).
- Power Apps (canvas and model-driven apps with BC data).
- Dataverse integration and custom connectors.
- Extend automation with Teams, Outlook, and Shopify connectors.
- Configure general ledger (COA, dimensions, posting groups, number series, trail codes).
- Set up general journal templates and process recurring/deferral journals.
- Perform general ledger allocations.
- Cash & bank management: configure bank accounts, payment methods, payment registration, and reconciliation (bank reconciliation, payment journals, tolerances).
- Manage accounts receivable: sales documents, invoicing, prepayments, corrections, returns, discounts, and pricing.
- Manage accounts payable: purchase documents, vendor setup, purchase invoices, returns, and payment processing (checks, vendor payments).
- Budgeting and reporting setup.
- Manage trade master data: customers, vendors, items, item categories/attributes, resources, templates, salespeople/purchasers.
- Create and manage sales and purchase documents (orders, blanket orders, drop shipments, special orders).
- Configure pricing and discounts for sales and purchasing.
- Inventory management: adjust inventory, reclassification, counting (journals/orders), SKUs, and item variants.
- Returns management: customer returns, vendor returns, apply exact cost reversing
- Warehouse setup: zones, bins, templates, warehouse employees, locations, and item tracking.
- Inbound, outbound, and put-away processes.
- Assembly management: setup, assembly BOMs, assemble-to-order, assemble-to-stock, and project-based assemblies.
- Report design: report objects, properties, triggers, datasets, layouts (RDLC, Word, Excel).
- Extend reports: report extensions, multilingual reports, processing-only reports, barcodes.
- Use Tell Me, report substitution, and saved settings.
- Analyze list data using data analysis mode (pivoting, hierarchies, sharing).
- Integration with Excel and Power BI: web services, data sources, templates, embedded reports.
- Document/report layout management and customization.
- Business Central UI essentials: navigation, search, Role Explorer, and Copilot.
- Personalization: Role Centers, list/card/document pages, adding/removing fields, profile-based customizations.
- Alternative interfaces: smartphone/tablet, Outlook, Teams integration.
- Page development: page types, layouts, actions, properties, snippets, barcodes, and hidden fields.