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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: start checking per-tenant extension (PTE) validation events in telemetry

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release adds the possibility via telemetry to immediately discover if per-tenant extensions (PTE) … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: using the Performance Toolkit to discover performance regressions

Probably many of you knows that Dynamics 365 Business Central has a tool called Performance Toolkit Extension (BCPT). This tool … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Query objects, AppSourceCop and breaking changes.

When developing Dynamics 365 Business Central extensions for AppSource, it’s mandatory to activate the AppSourceCop code analyzers in order to … More

Power Automate telemetry data with Azure Application Insights

Azure Application Insights is the Azure Monitor extension (service) for monitoring the performance of live cloud applications, collecting real-time telemetries and … More

Introducing ALDoc: a new command line tool for generating reference documentation for AL extensions

With the latest pre-release version of the AL extension, Microsot shipped a tool called ALDoc for generating reference documentation for … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the new AllowInCustomization field property

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (version 23) will introduce the possibility to add any existing table field … More

Dataverse environment creation: use Powershell!

When you need to create a new Dataverse environment for a project, the classical way I see quite everyone doing … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry with Azure Managed Grafana: Private Access Setup

Probably many of you knows that for creating control dashboards for some Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenants of for … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release: will it be the fastest release so far?

Some days ago Microsoft publicly releases the Release Wave 2 plans for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform products and also … More

Power Apps and secure implicit connections

When working with data connections in Power Apps, you can have “implicitly” or “explicitly” shared connections to external resources. An explicitly … More