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

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

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

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 telemetries for Azure Functions

In my Azure Functions session at latest BC TechDays in Belgium I spent some minutes showing the Azure Functions module … More

Microsoft Azure Active Directory is becoming Microsoft Entra ID

About a year ago Microsoft announced the Microsoft Entra product family From its introduction, Microsoft Entra included three products: Microsoft Azure … More

Azure Blob Storage and immutability support for blobs

Azure Blob Storage is one of the common cloud-based storage for different types of application, included business applications like Dynamics … More

Azure Functions: how to debug remotely in production

Last week at BC TechDays in Belgium, I’ve received a lot of technical questions after the two sessions I’ve done. … More

Me @ BC TechDays 2023

I will be in Antwerp (Belgium) from June 21 to 23 for the BC TechDays conference. Hoping to see some … More

I won the Digital Revolution Award 2023

Normally I don’t like to post personal things on this blog, but this time I need to do an exception … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central, Azure Functions and telemetries: best practices

Last week at DynamicsMinds conference, after my session about Azure Functions I’ve received an interesting question: in a context of … More

Dataverse: introducing the new Elastic tables

I don’ know if you have yet discovered that, but some days ago a new table type option called Elastic … More

Azure Blob Storage: upload and download latency between Standard and Premium tiers.

Azure Storage offers several types of storage accounts. Each type supports different features and has its own pricing model. The … More

Azure Service Tags and Dynamics 365 Business Central

Yesterday I’ve done a webcast detailing all the new features available in Dynamics 365 Business Central and I’ve also mentioned … More

Azure Logic Apps: KQL for having an overview of your scheduled workflows

Last week I was working with a partner on creating some cloud-based workflows for Dynamics 365 Business Central integrations with … More

Introducing Copilot for Dynamics 365 Business Central

Microsoft today has publicly announced the next generation of AI product updates across their business applications portfolio, including the launch … More

Azure Logic Apps: retrieving the exception details of an action group in a flow

In Azure Logic Apps (and in Power Automate too) to execute actions only if another group of actions succeed or … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry – March 2023 Update

In these hours Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 will join the public preview state and together with this … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central, Azure SQL and Optimized Locking

Optimized locking is a new Azure SQL database engine feature recently announced that drastically reduces lock memory and the number … More

Azure Logic Apps and polling: are you always doing the best choice?

How often in your real world projects have you the need to poll an external system or an external source … More

Monitoring your Azure Logic Apps workflows in an advanced way with telemetries

I talked here a lot on monitoring a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant by using telemetry, but the telemetry practice … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: retrieving Azure AD User informations via AL

I saw many partners in the past days asking how to retrieve informations about the current Dynamics 365 Business Central … More

Telemetry with Azure Application Insights: prevent anomalies on data ingestion

Some days ago I was helping a partner on setting up the telemetries for one of their customer’s Dynamics 365 … More

Azure Service Bus: introducing partitioning in Premium tier

If you was at my recent training about extending Dynamics 365 Business Central with Azure services in Microsof Italy or … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry: new year improvements and news

I think that you already know that the area of telemetries is a fast moving area in the Dynamics 365 … More

Are you using proxies with Azure Functions? Start moving to Azure API Management.

When working with lots of Azure Functions apps or in microservices architectures with a moderate workload, it’s quite common to … More