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AI in fully locked Dynamics 365 Business Central environment? Yes, you can!
AI features in Dynamics 365 Business Central are growing always more on each release wave and lots of new interesting…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Edit in Excel and Long Running SQL queries
Dynamics 365 Business Central has (from a long time) a nice feature for the end user called Edit in Excel.…
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 release plans: “as is” and “to be”
We’re just launching the Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 release (version 24) and at the same time Microsoft…
Dynamics 365 Business Central and Shopify connection: access key rotation.
If you’re currently using Dynamics 365 Business Central connected with Shopify, there’s an important announcement that you should be aware…
Azure Functions: .NET 7 support is ending and you should upgrade to .NET 8.
On 14 May 2024, support for .NET 7 in Azure Functions will end. Your Function apps that are currently using .NET…
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 release: important server changes to remember.
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 release (version 24) is out now and you should be aware of some…
Handling company’s carbon footprint with Business Central and Azure
Corporate environmental responsibility has become a cornerstone of modern business strategy. Companies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their commitment…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: receive notifications when AppSource apps updates are available in a tenant
When you install AppSource apps in a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant, app updates are automatically handled by Microsoft during…
The 2nd edition of “Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central” is here…
More than one year of work, many updates and reviews, lots of energies spent. But now I’m proud to announce…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the Page Scripting tool
If someone of you have ever worked with web applications development, probably you have earned about Playwright. Playwright is an…
Azure Spring Clean: Deploying Azure OpenAI in the enterprise world.
This post is my contribution to the Azure Spring Clean 2024 event, an initiative to promote well managed Azure tenants.…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: support for multiple extensions to same target in the same app
I talked about this upcoming feature with some of you last week, but now that Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024…
Copilot for Finance and Dynamics 365 Business Central
Yesterday Microsoft announced the public preview of Microsoft Copilot for Finance, the newest Copilot offering designed for business functions that extends…
How we (probably) broke limits at the #BCAIHackathon
Last week Microsoft organized the #BCAIHackathon initiative, a 3 days dedicated to create innovative solutions using generative AI in Dynamics…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the new Table Key module
One of the announced features for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 release is the possibility to enable or…
Dynamics 365 Business Central and Power Automate connector: deprecation of V2 triggers and actions
If you have created in the past workflows with Power Automate using the Dynamics 365 Business Central connector, probably you…
REST APIs and the importance of Versioning.
A REST API (also known as RESTful API) is an application programming interface that conforms to the constraints of REST architecture and it’s…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: transfer environments between Microsoft Entra tenants
Starting from today, it’s possible to transfer a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant to a different tenant without opening…
Audit Dynamics 365 Business Central operations in Microsoft Purview: what is it?
Some days ago Microsoft announced the upcoming new features for the new products wave and also Dynamics 365 Business Central…
List all Azure Functions with older runtime with Powershell
When you create an Azure Function app, the runtime is responsible for executing function code on the underlying WebJobs SDK…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: how can I disable Copilot for everyone?
Dynamics 365 Business Central now has embedded generative AI features powered by Azure OpenAI and this is something cool that…
Azure Basic Load Balancer: it’s time to plan the update to Standard.
Azure Load Balancer is a high-performance, ultra-low-latency Layer 4 load-balancing service (inbound and outbound) for all UDP and TCP protocols. It’s…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the Azure File Share module
I wrote in the past some articles about how it’s important to use Azure Storage for storing files in a…
Monitoring your Azure OpenAI usage (part 2)
In a previous post I wrote about how you can monitor your Azure OpenAI usage with Azure Monitor and Application…
Azure Functions and Data Parallelism: things to know.
When working with code on some complex data operations, sometimes to improve performances it’s possible to use code techniques like…
Power Automate: retrieving the first item of a recordset avoiding a loop.
In Dynamics 365 Business Central it’s quite common to do operations in AL code for filtering a set of records…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: how the BCApps repo is moving?
Can you see the image on top of this post? They’re not fireworks of the new year 2024 but instead…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Isolated Storage and SecretText support.
With Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (version 23) Microsoft introduced a new data type called SecretText. This new…
Azure Functions: .NET 7 and .NET 8 local debugging bug on Visual Studio Code.
This is a very quick post signaling a bug that makes me spending hours of troubleshooting. If you’re developing Azure…
Happy New Year 2024!
And also another year it’s coming to an end. To everyone reading this blog, to everyone of you I met…
Azure Logic Apps: securing HTTP Triggers with Microsoft Entra ID authentication
Lots of time ago I wrote a post about securing the HTTP triggered workflows created with Power Automate. You can…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: new additions in Excel Layouts reporting.
One of the reporting features I like the most in Dynamics 365 Business Central is the possibility to create Excel…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: remember to delete the Media orphans.
In all my trainings and sessions I always say that when you have a blob file to import in Dynamics…
Monitoring your Azure OpenAI usage
I want to continue the saga of “using Azure OpenAI in a professional way” by talking a bit about a…