Azure Functions: .NET 7 and .NET 8 local debugging bug on Visual Studio Code.

This is a very quick post signaling a bug that makes me spending hours of troubleshooting. If you’re developing Azure … More

Happy New Year 2024!

And also another year it’s coming to an end. To everyone reading this blog, to everyone of you I met … More

Azure Logic Apps: securing HTTP Triggers with Microsoft Entra ID authentication

Lots of time ago I wrote a post about securing the HTTP triggered workflows created with Power Automate. You can … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: new additions in Excel Layouts reporting.

One of the reporting features I like the most in Dynamics 365 Business Central is the possibility to create Excel … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: remember to delete the Media orphans.

In all my trainings and sessions I always say that when you have a blob file to import in Dynamics … More

Monitoring your Azure OpenAI usage

I want to continue the saga of “using Azure OpenAI in a professional way” by talking a bit about a … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Microsoft standard AI features and prompts.

The new Dynamics 365 Business Central 23.2 release unlocks the new Copilot Developer Toolkit (more info here) for creating generative-AI … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Power BI and the “You do not have a Power BI account” error.

Power BI embedded is one of the greatest feature in Dynamics 365 Business Central because enables users to create Power … More

Starting my first year as an MCT Regional Lead for Italy

There’s no better way to finish the year than receiving a great news… Yesterday (after a busy day at work) … More

Azure Logic Apps Standard: introducing the Workflow Assistant (AI)

Yes… AI is coming also in Azure Logic Apps Designer! If you’re developing an Azure Logic Apps Standard workflow, in … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot, Azure OpenAI and real-world enterprise usage.

We are entering a new era of AI, one that is fundamentally changing how we relate to and benefit from … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: SQL Server and Read Committed Snapshot Isolation impact.

One of the greatest thing introduced in the latest Dynamics 365 Business Central release if cerainly the TRI STATE LOCKING … More

“Decoupling”: the misterious word for many Dynamics 365 Business Central partners.

In the last year I’m seeing lots of existing Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises customers deciding to move their ERP … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: automate the telemetry setup.

Some days ago I was reading a summary made by Kennie about the Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on data-driven … More

Azure Functions and Blob Triggers: be careful on the binding type.

This post is borned to signal a problem that I’ve recently found in a customer and I think that sharing … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: is my on-premises customer ready for SaaS?

“Is my Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises customer ready to be moved on SaaS?“. “Will the SaaS platform able to … More

If you want to meet me @ Directions EMEA…

… the best place is probably where there’s a beer 🍺🤪 Not sure if there’s a good beer in France … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the App Update Cadence setting.

With Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS, until now AppSource apps are automatically updated to the latest available release when a … More

The history of a Dynamics 365 Business Central data processing workflow…

Once upon a time there was a workflow named SpongeFlow created with the intention of processing complex data coming from … More

Dataverse Connector and cross-environment actions and triggers

If you’re creating solutions with the Microsoft Dataverse connector, I think that you will be happy to know that starting … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and Retention Policies: please KISS!

No… you don’t have to spread kisses all over the world, but probably the opposite… 🙂 I think that many … More

Azure Functions with VNET integration: remember to enable Runtime Scale Monitoring

When working with Azure Functions, in real-world projects could happen that you need to connect to resources in an Azure … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and the AllowInCustomization field property: some clarifications.

If someone of you remember, in August I wrote this post introducing the new AllowInCustomization field property that Microsoft planned … More

Collect Microsoft Graph Activity Logs in Azure Monitor

Few days ago Microsoft announced the public preview of a very interesting feature: Microsoft Graph Activity Logs in Azure Monitor. … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: the Dynamics 365 Business Central Administrator role for granular administration

One of the planned feature for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (v23) is an interesting change on … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and large data export to Excel via Power Automate: use Graph API.

One of the quite common scenarios that I often see in many Dynamics 365 Business Central projects is something like … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: remember to check the M365 Service Health Dashboard

In May 2022 I wrote this post explaining the upcoming changes on the way Microsoft will start sending notifications about … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Cloud Migration and permission sets.

When moving Dynamics 365 Business Central customers from the on-premises platform to the online platform, the absolutely recommneded way to … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central connector and Managed Identity with Azure Logic Apps.

I’ve received two time the same request from partners this week about the same topic, so probably this is something … More

Power Automate: changes in the HTTP Connector

Have you ever used the HTTP connector with Power Automate? I think the naswer is YES because it’s (at least … More

Transition to using Standard Tests for availability tests in Azure Application Insights

In the past I talked about the possibility to monitor the availability of a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant (or … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the new SecretText data type.

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (version 23) and the new AL language version 12 introdocues a new … More

Me @ Directions EMEA 2023

In a bit more than a month Directions EMEA 2023 Conference will start in Lyon. It will be as usual … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release: measuring the impact of the new data structure

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (v23) introduces important changes on the new data structure for table extensions … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: attaching VS Code Debugger from client

One of the long awaited feature that you will see in Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (v23) … More