Some days ago I was with a partner for checking a Dynamics 365 Business Central project. This project has a … More
Category: Azure
Do you have Azure Functions in production? Update your Azure Functions apps to use runtime version 4.x
On December 3, 2022, .NET Core 3.1 will be retired. As a result, Azure Functions runtime versions 2.x and 3.x, … More
Testing Azure Functions or Dynamics 365 Business Central API calls performances with BenchmarkDotNet
In these days, for a big cloud-based project, I had the need to conduct an assessment of the different cloud … More
Microsoft Reactor: Proactive monitoring of your Azure cloud applications
Are you interested on efficiently monitoring your Azure cloud workloads? Are you curious about all the monitoring possibilities (and more) … More
Azure tenant’s telemetry at your fingertips
Monitoring is an essential task for handling a cloud tenant at best. Azure has built-in features for monitoring a tenant, … More
Querying telemetries from multiple Application Insights instances
During the last week’s Microsoft WE Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry webcast (day 2 of a 3 part serie) I … More
Secure life in a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant
Dynamics 365 Business Central has moved the ERP (core part of every corporate business) to the cloud and this was … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and Granular Delegated Admins Privileges (GDAP)
In January 2022 Microsoft has released a preview of Granular Delegated Admin Privileges (GDAP) for Microsoft 365 workloads. Delegated Admins … More
Azure AD app registration secrets: a quick script to check who expires soon
When setting Azure AD app registration for using OAUTH 2 authentication, you need to create a client secret: A client … More
Create a link to an Application Insights query programmatically
In our telemetry session at Directions EMEA in Milan we have presented how you can directly use Dynamics 365 Business … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central workflows: Power Automate or Logic Apps?
Serverless workflows are in my opinion an important piece of the architecture of a cloud-based ERP solution (and this is … More
Cloud workflows: is the low-code approach always a good solution?
Last week I wrote a post providing a solution for interacting with files saved in an FTP server directly from … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: handling files via FTP on SaaS
I’ve written lot of time ago a post on how to save a file from Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and availability tests
Dynamics 365 Business Central is an absolutely reliable SaaS service that runs on the Azure platform. It’s a cloud service … More
Monitoring Power Apps with Azure Application Insights
As a follow up to this post (and for completely answering here questions from Directions EMEA about this topic) here … More
Programmatically monitoring your Power Automate Flows
In my workflow session at Directions EMEA, we talked about how to overcome the limitations of Power Automate for creating … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: overriding the extension’s resource policy for a particular tenant
Last week at Directions EMEA I had the pleasure to meet and talk with many of you in person and … More
Me @ Directions EMEA
Next week it’s finally the Directions EMEA week and the conference this year will be in Italy in the great … More
Azure AD authentication for Application Insights: how to use it and the impact on Business Central telemetry
Microsoft has recently announced the public preview of a new capability for Azure Application Insights: the support for Azure Active … More
Using custom C# code when creating Custom Connectors for Power Platform or Logic Apps
If you’re doing integrationw between Dynamics 365 Business Central or other applications and the Power Platform, I think that sometimes … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise and SQL on Azure VM: reducing storage costs
If you search on my blog, I’we written in the past a lot of articles with suggestions and best practices … More
Using Azure API Management to host your Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs
Some days ago there was a discussion on Twitter started by Waldo about how to document custom Dynamics 365 Business … More
Exporting Application Insights logs with Continuous Export or Diagnostic Settings
I’m continuously emphasizing that for monitoring cloud applications (like Dynamics 365 Business Central) and cloud services, using Azure Application Insights … More
Why you should start considering Azure Batch for some of your Dynamics 365 Business Central cloud workloads
At the Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 1 Launch event, in his wonderful session about the Administration Center, Dmitry … More
Deleting Application Insights telemetry data on-demand with Powershell
I think that everyone of you knows that telemetry is an important aspect to take into consideration when working with … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
“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 … More
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 … More
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 … More