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…
Create a link to an Application Insights query programmatically
In our telemetry session at Directions EMEA in Milan we have presented how you can directly use Dynamics 365 Business…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: AppSource submission of library apps used by different extensions
Exactly about one year ago I’ve talked about the possibility to create Library Apps and submit them on AppSource. The…
Dynamics 365 Business Central, Service-to-Service authentication (OAuth) and Task Scheduler
Just before Christmas I received a request from a partner about a feature that personally I never had the need…
Dynamics 365 Business Central workflows: Power Automate or Logic Apps?
Serverless workflows are in my opinion an important piece of the architecture of a cloud-based ERP solution (and this is…
Cloud workflows: is the low-code approach always a good solution?
Last week I wrote a post providing a solution for interacting with files saved in an FTP server directly from…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: are you doing cloud data migration? Please sanitize your database before doing it.
I’ve decided to write this quick post after having spent some hours on supporting a partner in order to discover…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: handling files via FTP on SaaS
I’ve written lot of time ago a post on how to save a file from Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS…
Dynamics 365 Business Central and PropagateDependencies
More than one year ago (March 2020) I wrote a post explaining a new propagateDependencies app property introduced with version…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: PTE + SyncMode problem and troubleshooting
I think that you know that Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2 (version 19) introduced the possibility to do…
Dynamics 365 Business Central and availability tests
Dynamics 365 Business Central is an absolutely reliable SaaS service that runs on the Azure platform. It’s a cloud service…
Monitoring Power Apps with Azure Application Insights
As a follow up to this post (and for completely answering here questions from Directions EMEA about this topic) here…
Programmatically monitoring your Power Automate Flows
In my workflow session at Directions EMEA, we talked about how to overcome the limitations of Power Automate for creating…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: overriding the extension’s resource policy for a particular tenant
Last week at Directions EMEA I had the pleasure to meet and talk with many of you in person and…