Dynamics 365 Business Central: set up alerts on job queue failures

Some days ago I was with a partner for checking a Dynamics 365 Business Central project. This project has a … More

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