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Azure Managed Grafana for Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry? It’s time to upgrade.
About two years ago at Directions EMEA 2022 I did a demo on exposing Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry with … More
Semantic Search and Vectors support on Dynamics 365 Business Central: this is the right moment.
Some weeks ago we had a nice interview with two amazing US guys (Brad Prendergast and Kristoffer Ruyeras aka Kris … More
Are you ready for the most mystical conference of the year?
3 days until DynamicsMinds 2024 in Portoroz (Slovenia) starts, a 4 days community conference covering Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: monitoring field changes with telemetry is better…
In a traditional Dynamics 365 Business Central project, expecially when the customer is a large company, it’s quite often requested … More
AI in fully locked Dynamics 365 Business Central environment? Yes, you can!
AI features in Dynamics 365 Business Central are growing always more on each release wave and lots of new interesting … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Edit in Excel and Long Running SQL queries
Dynamics 365 Business Central has (from a long time) a nice feature for the end user called Edit in Excel. … More
Azure Functions: .NET 7 support is ending and you should upgrade to .NET 8.
On 14 May 2024, support for .NET 7 in Azure Functions will end. Your Function apps that are currently using .NET … More
Handling company’s carbon footprint with Business Central and Azure
Corporate environmental responsibility has become a cornerstone of modern business strategy. Companies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their commitment … More
The 2nd edition of “Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central” is here…
More than one year of work, many updates and reviews, lots of energies spent. But now I’m proud to announce … More
Azure Spring Clean: Deploying Azure OpenAI in the enterprise world.
This post is my contribution to the Azure Spring Clean 2024 event, an initiative to promote well managed Azure tenants. … More
How we (probably) broke limits at the #BCAIHackathon
Last week Microsoft organized the #BCAIHackathon initiative, a 3 days dedicated to create innovative solutions using generative AI in Dynamics … More
REST APIs and the importance of Versioning.
A REST API (also known as RESTful API) is an application programming interface that conforms to the constraints of REST architecture and it’s … More
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
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
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
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
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
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: 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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