When Dynamics 365 Business Central version 16 was launched, I remember that a weird problem was signaled to Microsoft related…
Microsoft Universal Print is finally ready (yes, also for Dynamics 365 Business Central)
Today at the first day of Ignite, Microsoft has finally announced that Universal Print is finally available for everyone. Universal…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: per-tenant extensions and conflicts with standard Microsoft’s fields
Some weeks ago I received two emails from contacts where they submitted me two interesting “bad problems” that blocked them…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: are your AppSource apps ready for 2021 Wave 1 release?
As I think you already know, with Dynamics 365 Business Central 2019 release wave 2 (version 15) Microsoft has marked…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: returning complex types from AL
I think that every AL developer dreams that a day AL will be a full Object Oriented programming language like…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: SOAP and Basic Authentication deprecation
If you’re using web services with Dynamics 365 Business Central version, from version 17.X you should always check the notifications…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: automatically import custom report layouts with extensions
Do you love reports? Personally, NO! 🙂 But that is, as a Business Central developer I think that sometimes (forced…
Securing your Azure SQL Database with a private endpoint
Some days ago I discussed with some partners the architecture of a possible datawarehouse system for external BI analysis connected…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: point in time restore of a Production environment
Yesterday Microsoft has officially released one of the most requested feature for the Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS environment: point…
Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure made it to the Best Microsoft Azure Books of All Time
I’m happy to announce that our book, “Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure: Re-architect and rebuild your applications using…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Batch API calls and max number of operations
The standard (and for what I can see most used) way of using Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs is by…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: the impact of tableextensions
I think that everyone of you already knows that when working with Dynamics 365 Business Central, table extensions are killers…
Using Powershell to retrieve your Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry
Telemetry, telemetry, telemetry… this is an hot topic in your developer’s and admin’s life in the cloud. We have talked…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: per-tenant extensions changes
Do you remember this slide? This was (and is) one of my most shared slides ever (from me, from third-party…
Moving Azure Functions from Consumption to Premium plans
In a demo at the Microsoft’s Reactor event in October I talked about the performance advantages on moving Azure Functions…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: be careful when using the OnCompanyOpen trigger
Today I was helping a partner on discovering performance issues on its Dynamics 365 Business Central online tenant. When analyzing…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: creating retention policies from AL
Starting from Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2 (v17) administrators can define retention policies for tables to specify how…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: small clarification on who can install apps
Talking in these days with some partners, I discovered that it’s not so clear how to handle the possibility to…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using snapshot debugging
One of the top requested features for Dynamics 365 Business Central from a long time is absolutely one: debugging the…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: handling commits behaviors on events
When working with extensions in Dynamics 365 Business Central, you’ve always to keep in mind that you’re now in a…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: ISV telemetry for custom table’s usage
When developing extensions for AppSource, every partner has its own licensing model. There are extensions that are free, others that…
How much my Application Insights service costs?
This is a question that I’ve received many times and also this morning I had a discussion with a partner…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: new features for performant code
In the training I’ve done to some partners last week, when talking about performances I shared an example of an…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using Azure Key Vault for your secrets
Azure Key Vault is a cloud service for securely storing and accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: I think it’s the time to clean your app.json file
Do you remember this post I wrote lots of time ago? This post described the new Microsoft’s Application app introduced…
“Azure DevOps Explained” book announcement
I’m very happy and proud to announce the hard work I’ve done during the quarantine together with two great MVPs…
Tips for handling a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant at best
Handling a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant in a cloud environment is not exactly like handling it on an…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Extension Management page and the “Delete Extension Data” option
This is a very quick post just to help on clearing doubts related on a new flag that Microsoft has…
Creating lightweight Teams bots with outgoing webhooks and Azure Functions
Microsoft Teams is becoming always more a central point for the everyday’s work on many of us now and often…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: adding partner’s telemetry on your apps
I’ve written a lot in the past about using Azure Application Insights for monitoring a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant…
Dynamics 365 Business Central Sandbox Docker containers and multitenancy
I saw on different forums people having troubles on connecting to their brand new Docker containers created with the new…
Handling the “HTTP 429 – Too Many Requests” error when calling external services
I think that many of you that creates integrations with external services could have the pleasure to know the HTTP…
Dynamics 365 ERP landscape report
Earlier this year, I was pleased to be asked to contribute my thoughts on the current ERP landscape for the…
Creating a local drive mapped with an Azure File Share for your files in the cloud
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.…
