Connecting Copilot to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-premise

kiabb

Hello,
I am looking for a solution to integrate Microsoft Copilot with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-premise. I would appreciate your guidance on the specific steps required to establish this connection.

Your expertise and detailed insights on this integration would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your support!
Best regards,

maxklein

Just a quick note for anyone trying to connect Microsoft Copilot to Business Central On-Premise — the official Microsoft 365 Copilot and Dynamics 365 Copilot integrations are only supported in the Business Central Cloud (SaaS) version. If you're running an on-prem instance, there's currently no out-of-the-box support for native Copilot features.

That said, if you're looking to build something Copilot-like or want to use Power Platform Copilot tools, there is a workaround using Power Platform + Custom Connectors:

- What You Can Do
You can connect Power Apps or Power Automate (and use Copilot inside them) to your Business Central On-Premise system via:

OData v4 or SOAP web services published from your on-prem environment

A Custom Connector created in Power Platform or via Azure API Management

An On-premises Data Gateway to securely expose those services to the cloud

Once that’s set up, you can:

Build Power Automate flows (with Copilot assistance) that read/write to BC On-Prem

Use Power Apps with Copilot to interact with BC data in a low-code/no-code interface

- Key Setup Steps
Make sure your Business Central instance exposes the right OData/SOAP endpoints

Set up the On-premises Data Gateway on a server that has access to BC

It’s not quite plug-and-play, but if you're comfortable with the Power Platform, this is a solid approach to bring some AI-powered experiences to your on-prem system.