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

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