Dynamics 365 Business Central: why not reviewing the SaaS storage cost policy?

In these days I had a talk with some partners asking me some guidelines and suggestions on how trying to … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: the power of NumberSequence

Assigning number series to documents seems a simple task to users but in an ERP (where concurrency is always present) … More

Semantic Search and Vectors support on Dynamics 365 Business Central: this is the right moment.

Some weeks ago we had a nice interview with two amazing US guys (Brad Prendergast and Kristoffer Ruyeras aka Kris … More

Are you ready for the most mystical conference of the year?

3 days until DynamicsMinds 2024 in Portoroz (Slovenia) starts, a 4 days community conference covering Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: monitoring field changes with telemetry is better…

In a traditional Dynamics 365 Business Central project, expecially when the customer is a large company, it’s quite often requested … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: clarifications on changing the identity of an app.

When talking with some partners trying to approach the AppSource marketplace during the last week, I’ve discovered that for many … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: “this” is a nice AL addition.

If someone is familiar with C#, probably knows that the this keyword is used to refer to the current instance of … More

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 … More

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. … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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. … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More