File Management in the cloud is always an hot topic when using SaaS services like Dynamics 365 Business Central. A…
AL language and the “missing documentation” warning
Yesterday evening I’ve received a message from a user asking me if something has changed in the AL language extension.…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: loading demo data for your extensions
I’ve received in the last days a request from a forum user asking for a way to automatically loading demo…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: exploring page views with Azure Application Insights
I think that you already know that I’m a huge fan of using Azure Application Insights for collecting telemetry for…
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2 release plan: my favourite features
Microsoft has shared today to the general public the Dynamics 365 Wave 2 Release plan. These are my favourite Dynamics…
Using Azure Logic Apps for creating a Dynamics 365 Business Central container on Azure Container Instances
A week ago I’ve written a post explaining how to create a Dynamics 365 Business Central Docker container on Azure…
Creating a Dynamics 365 Business Central Docker container with artifacts on Azure Container Instances
Azure Container Instances (ACI) is a great service offered by Azure that permits you to run serverless Docker containers in…
Visual Studio Code and poor performances with AL language
I saw different posts on forums in these days about issues related to poor Visual Studio Code performances when using…
Securing your HTTP triggered flow in Power Automate
This is a quick post for giving a response to a question that comes out in our latest Microsoft’s webcast…
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 4-steps webcasts ended today
Today was the last stage for this serie of 4 Microsoft’s webcasts related to Dynamics 365 Business Central integrations and…
Auto-scaling your Azure SQL database with Logic Apps
I think that you know that I’m a huge fan of using Azure SQL database for your workloads in the…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: checking user permissions on specific objects
With the refactoring done in Dynamics 365 Business Central for better supporting the SaaS environment, is not quite easy to…
Nigel Frank’s new white paper sets blueprint for overcoming business challenges with Microsoft Dynamics technology
We find ourselves in a position where Microsoft cloud technology is in higher demand than ever before, but with uncertainty…
Dynamics 365 Business Central, AL compiler and .NET Core
At the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Virtual Event yesterday a not so much emphasized slide appeared: Yes, the new…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: obsoleting the WITH statement
As you ever used the WITH clause in C/AL or AL language? There are lovers of this clause and there…
Automating the creation of work items in Azure DevOps (from Powershell and from Dynamics 365 Business Central)
If you’re using Azure DevOps in yor organization for the entire product lifecycle, you know for sure that you can…
Sending Azure Alerts to Dynamics 365 Business Central
When working with Dynamics 365 Business Central (but also on Azure applications in general) it’s a best and recommended practice…
365 Saturday: Business Central Day
For the first time, this Saturday (May, 23) 365 Saturday will host a full day event totally dedicated to Dynamics…
Read-scale out with Azure SQL and Dynamics 365 Business Central
In the last month I had the chance to test the read-scale out feature of an Azure SQL Database with…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: AL and the internalsVisibleTo property
Yesterday I was talking with a partner that developed an extension with a quite complex logic declared in a codeunit…
Azure DevOps and cross-repo branch policies
In the webcast we had this Monday for Microsoft Western Europe about using Azure DevOps for managing Dynamics 365 Business…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using Camera in AL
Curious thing… last week a follower asked my if it’s possible to use the Camera with Dynamics 365 Business Central…
My session at Global Azure Bootcamp 2020: 15 tips to follow when deploying Azure Functions to production
Thanks to all the attendees that followed my session yesterday at Global Azure Bootcamp 2020. We saw 15 tips that…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using AL rulesets to customize code analysis
I think that many of you are familiar with this topic, but I’ve received today a question related to AL…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: loading Configuration Packages from AL (part 2)
More than one year ago I wrote this post on how to import directly from AL code a Configuration Package…
Azure SQL Serverless tier: a way to save cost for your workloads in the cloud
When going to the cloud, saving costs while maximizing performances is always a goal to reach but sometimes also not…
Dynamics 365 Business Central and unpublished extensions during an upgrade
In these days I’ve received some messages from partners (and I saw on forums opened questions too) that signal that,…
Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS: save a file to an SFTP server (the Logic App way)
Yesterday I’ve provided a solution for saving a file generated directly from a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant to…
Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS: save a file to an SFTP server
In our recently released “Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central” book, in the Azure Function chapter I’ve provided a full example…
A quick way to deploy your Azure Functions in the cloud
After my last webcast about Azure Functions, I received an interesting question: how can I quickly deploy a function to…
Live sharing your AL code directly in the browser
In this terrible period where COVID-19 is changing our days (and our life) and where homeworking is becoming a must,…
The new life with an app-based ERP
Some days ago I wrote an article for Simplanova website for summarizing the biggest technical changes that every partner should…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: something more about dependency propagation
One week ago I’ve written a post about the new “proxy app” (Microsoft.Application.app file) introduced with the 15.3 version (you…
Using Deployment slots for your Dynamics 365 Business Central Azure Functions
In my session at Ignite Tour Milan in January I’ve talked (with a real demo too) about how to use…
Dynamics 365 Business Central and the new Microsoft Application “proxy” app
If someone of you has installed or upgraded a Dynamics 365 Business Central database instances with the new 15.3 version,…
