One of the main issues on using Azure Application Insights for collecting telemetry from a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant…
Testing Azure Functions performances with Azure Load Testing
If someone of you remember, in the past I wrote about doing performance testing of Azure Functions using tools like…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: report extensions and global variables in preview mode
Today I received a call from a partner that was going crazy on a problem during the preview of some…
Timer Trigger Azure Functions: handling retry policies
In my last post about serverless architectures for decoupling integrations between Dynamics 365 Business Central and external applications, I’ve talked…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: queue usage to decouple your serverless integrations
In the last weeks I had lots of requests and discussions by partners in the Dynamics community asking for a…
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 release: what’s boiling in the pot
Today Microsoft has publicly released the planned list of enhancements for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 release (from…
Azure Functions: getting the client IP address
When using Azure Functions, sometimes is required to log the IP address of the client calling your function app. Unfortunately,…
Testing multiple Azure Functions apps running together with Microsoft Tye
If you frequently work with serverless architectures and expecially with Azure Functions, I think that you know that splitting a…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: set up alerts on job queue failures
Some days ago I was with a partner for checking a Dynamics 365 Business Central project. This project has a…
Do you have Azure Functions in production? Update your Azure Functions apps to use runtime version 4.x
On December 3, 2022, .NET Core 3.1 will be retired. As a result, Azure Functions runtime versions 2.x and 3.x,…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the Dynamics 365 Translation Service Visual Studio Code extension (preview)
Have you ever used the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Translation Service (DTS)? The Microsoft Dynamics 365 Translation Service (DTS) is hosted…
Dynamics 365 Business Central and Power Automate: conditions on empty field values
In the past days I’ve received the following question from one of my followers: in a Power Automate workflow, how…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: changing the way of sending tenant-level notifications
For some years now, Microsoft have communicated Dynamics 365 Business Central service health status and service incidents through the Microsoft…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: handling a checklist for your apps
One of the onboarding features available in Dynamics 365 Business Central is the possibility to assign a checklist of tasks…
Testing Azure Functions or Dynamics 365 Business Central API calls performances with BenchmarkDotNet
In these days, for a big cloud-based project, I had the need to conduct an assessment of the different cloud…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: custom Onedrive integrations
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 (version 20) enhanced the integration with Onedrive for Business, the cloud storage service…
Microsoft Reactor: Proactive monitoring of your Azure cloud applications
Are you interested on efficiently monitoring your Azure cloud workloads? Are you curious about all the monitoring possibilities (and more)…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: publish full dependency tree for AL projects
When working with multiple AL extensions with dependencies in a Visual Studio Code workspace, during the development phase it’s quite…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: clarification about OAuth2 authentication in v20
In a recent event we had with the partners community on the new Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: runtime packages and resource exposure policies
Runtime packages for Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise are not a new concept. If you want to distribute your extensions…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: embedded pages in Teams coming soon.
At Directions NA, Microsoft announced that Dynamics 365 Business Central will soon support the possibility to embed pages inside Teams…
Dynamics 365 Business Central, OnAfterLogin and Isolated Events
During trainings and/or checking different partner’s extensions code, I often see that partners adds business logic in the login process…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the in-client Performance Profiler
With the upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 release (version 20), Microsoft has enhanced the AL performance profiler…
Azure tenant’s telemetry at your fingertips
Monitoring is an essential task for handling a cloud tenant at best. Azure has built-in features for monitoring a tenant,…
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 loves Power Automate
Are you a Power Automate user? Are you using workflows to Automate your tasks in Dynamics 365 Business Central? If…
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1: introducing Excel Layouts for reporting
When introducing the upcoming features of Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 (version 20) I wrote that one of…
Querying telemetries from multiple Application Insights instances
During the last week’s Microsoft WE Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry webcast (day 2 of a 3 part serie) I…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Start using Partner Sandbox Environments
At last Directions EMEA 2021 in Milan, Microsoft announced the future availability of Partner Sandbox Environments for Dynamics 365 Business…
Secure life in a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant
Dynamics 365 Business Central has moved the ERP (core part of every corporate business) to the cloud and this was…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: quick clarification on resourceExposurePolicy
I’ve received this morning a private message from a partner pointing me to some Github discussions about resourceExposurePolicy and the…
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 (v20): upcoming reporting changes
In my previous post about the upcoming new features that will be out starting from Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022…
Dynamics 365 Business Central and Granular Delegated Admins Privileges (GDAP)
In January 2022 Microsoft has released a preview of Granular Delegated Admin Privileges (GDAP) for Microsoft 365 workloads. Delegated Admins…
Azure AD app registration secrets: a quick script to check who expires soon
When setting Azure AD app registration for using OAUTH 2 authentication, you need to create a client secret: A client…
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1: what to expect
Microsoft has officially unveiled today the Dynamics 365 and industry clouds release plan for the 2022 release wave 1. The…
Business Central Universal Code initiative: are you really so surprised?
Yesterday Microsoft has officially presented the Business Central Universal Code initiative ( http://aka.ms/BCUniversalcode). For more details about this initiative, I suggest…