The new season of Dutch Dynamics Community events kicked off this week. Each meetup takes place at a different location in the Netherlands, where this time we were hosted at the Van der Valk Hotel in Vianen.
The DDC team put together another great evening supported by volunteers who made the event possible with their time and expertise. As always, there was a mix of Business Central, F&O, AI, and Power Platform sessions to choose from. Like every event, you have to make some choices about which sessions to attend, and the DDC is no exception. With five parallel sessions, the schedule offered a wide range of interesting topics. Below is what I learned from the two sessions I attended.
Effective Document Management in Dynamics with PnP Modern Search in SharePoint
The combination of Dynamics 365 and SharePoint is powerful when you know how to integrate the two platforms properly. Yashar Ghouchibeir walked us through the out-of-the-box integration between Dynamics 365 Sales and SharePoint and then showed an alternative approach.
Where Dynamics 365 focuses on storing documents related to records in SharePoint, where this makes sense a Dynamics 365 is built on a relational data model. SharePoint on the other hand is an unstructured model that relies on metadata rather than the context of related records. The alternative approach makes it possible to fill in metadata directly from Dynamics 365. A nice extra is that users can simply drag and drop files, which is exactly what people expect in 2025 when working with attachments. A clever solution was added on top of this, where SharePoint retrieves related information from Dataverse to further enrich a file’s metadata.
Everything came together when PnP Modern Search entered the picture. Users who do not work in Dynamics 365 but work directly in SharePoint can still find documents in the right context by using the metadata. For example, they can easily pull up all contracts for a specific project thanks to the metadata assigned to the documents, without needing to know the exact location of the files in SharePoint.
With this setup we bring together the world of related document attachments in Dynamics 365 and the world of document collaboration in SharePoint.
Integrating D365 BC with D365 SCM Warehouse Only Mode (WOM)
Discover an exciting new option for enhancing warehouse management by integrating Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management (SCM) with Business Central.
That line on the session program caught my attention and it sounded like a story worth learning more about. There are strong ISV solutions on AppSource that extend Business Central’s warehouse module, but the possibility of integrating Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management with Business Central was completely new to me.
This has become possible thanks to the recent development of Warehouse Only Mode (WOM) in D365 SCM. Borut Pirnat presented the session and, besides covering the technical details, also focused on the why question; What are the use cases for this kind of setup?
You might want to use the trade functionality of Business Central while needing a more advanced warehouse solution. At the moment the go-to-market story is a bit cumbersome, since there is no “dual rights” licensing option (yet?). But there are many more scenarios to consider. This setup can also be a strategic choice if you plan to grow toward Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (D365 F&O) in the future. Starting with a hybrid setup can make that transition much easier. Or think of a scenario where you acquire a company currently using Business Central. You might not need to migrate them to F&O right away and this hybrid setup can speed up the onboarding of the acquired business.
From a Business Central point of view it is always interesting to see what the bigger brother can do. Features like an out-of-the-box mobile scanning solution or the ability to track inventory by serial and lot numbers as well as additional warehouse dimensions. This can be especially useful in logistics processes that span over multiple legal entities.
Next up
The new season opened with a great mix of topics and a community that continues to show how valuable these evenings are. Thanks to everyone who attended, contributed, presented, or simply joined the conversations.
I learned a lot on this evening at the event and I am looking forward to the next Dutch Dynamics Community event on Tuesday 10 February 2026 and hope to see you there.