Learning DevOps for Dynamics 365 Business Central developers

In the next months Microsoft Western Europe has planned a series of one-day training events for helping Dynamics 365 Business … More

Executing your .exe tasks on a Cloud environment by using Azure Functions

I think that many of you on your Dynamics NAV or Dynamics 365 Business Central projects have tasks executed by … More

Microsoft Ignite The Tour – Milan

Microsoft Ignite The Tour brings the very best of Microsoft Ignite to a city near you. The tour provides technical training led by Microsoft experts and your … More

New book “Migrating applications to the cloud with Azure” finally released

While waiting to officially announce to the Dynamics 365 Business Central community our latest and biggest work ever, I’m happy … More

Visual Studio Online preview: coding in the browser seems promising.

Today at Ignite 2019 Microsoft has launched the public preview for Visual Studio Online, a managed cloud-based development environment based … More

“Azure Functions for Dynamics 365 Business Central Developers” webcast recording

The recording of my last webcast for Areopa Academy is available on their YouTube channel. Again, sorry for the initial … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Using Azure Traffic Manager to geo-distribute your Azure Functions

Some months ago I’ve written this post describing an interesting solution we’ve deployed for a geo-distributed solution that involves Dynamics … More

Creating an Azure SQL Database backup via Powershell

I have several Azure SQL databases (mainly Microsoft Dynamics NAV databases) on different Azure subscriptions and often I need to … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central + Azure Cosmos DB for globally distributed integrations

Today’s post wants to give an overview of a successfully deployed scenario of a geo-distributed integration between Dynamics 365 Business … More

Moving an on-premise Dynamics 365 Business Central database to Azure SQL via Powershell

If I have an on-premise installation of Dynamics 365 Business Central, can I move my database from a local SQL … More

WPC 2018: Dynamics 365 Business Central is here and you should join me!

Yes… Dynamics 365 Business Central appears on the list of topics of the main Microsoft developer-oriented conference in Italy. From … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central/NAV on Azure VMs: tips for best network performances

Many months ago I wrote a series of posts related to best practices to remember when deploying Microsoft Dynamics NAV … More

Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise: why don’t you resize your Azure VMs?

This post comes after spending two days working with some customers that have started to move all their on-premise infrastructure … More

Using SQL Data Sync with Microsoft Dynamics NAV on-premise and Azure SQL Database

In many Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementations we have situations where the NAV database is often “coupled” with a second database … More

Backup your NAV on-premise database to Azure Blob Storage

In these days we had an internal discussion with our marketing department in order to increase the Azure adoption of … More

“Dynamics 365 Business Central + NAV on Cloud” Technical Workshop on Microsoft Italy

I’ll have the pleasure and the honour to perform a 2 days Technical Workshop about Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central … More

Microsoft Dynamics NAV on Azure: SQL Server on Azure VM best practices

When talking about Microsoft Dynamics NAV installed on Azure, we have mainly two choices: use an Azure VM with SQL … More

Serverless processing with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Azure Functions

Deploying Microsoft Dynamics NAV to the Azure cloud (IaaS) is now one of our first proposal on every new customer. … More

NAV on Docker: running it on an Azure Container Instance

A container image is a lightweight, stand-alone, executable package of a piece of software that includes everything needed to run … More

Ebook: The magic bundle

A quick post for publishing an interesting promo available on Packt website in these days: all eBooks and printed books … More

NAV Extensions: using custom DLLs from Azure Functions

I need to give a response to many of you that have asked me many questions regarding the “Microsoft Dynamics … More

Azure SQL and Information Protection (GDPR)

I’m talking a lot on this blog about Azure SQL and its usage as a PaaS database engine for many … More

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Extensions and the add-in pains

In these days I was in contact with many partners trying to migrate their NAV solutions to the new Extensions … More

Microsoft Dynamics NAV on Azure SQL: performance tuning

In the previous days, we’ve discussed a serie of benefits of using Azure SQL Database with NAV if you’re planning … More

Deploying NAV to the cloud: Azure VM costs

In one of my recent posts, we’ve seen how very cost-effective could be implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV on Azure. Regarding … More

New book: Implementing Azure Cloud Design Patterns

I’ve spent few words some weeks ago for previewing these, but now it’s the time for an official announcement. I’m … More

Azure SQL needs more consideration with NAV

When deploying a solution architecture with Microsoft Dynamics NAV as the ERP of your choice, you already know that the … More

NAV: DotNet types and Extensions V2

I’m seeing in these days that many NAV partners are starting “tests” in order to move some of their Microsoft … More

Adapting old legacy apps for the cloud

The switch to the cloud is not so quick, at least here in Italy, but fortunately I can see a … More

Explaining the Cloud…

New book: Building ERP solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Today is THE DATE! After 9 months of work, we’re ready to go: my new book Building ERP solutions with Microsoft … More

New book: Building ERP solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV (ITA version)

Ebbene si… ora è ufficiale e possiamo divulgare al mondo la notizia 🙂 Dopo 9 mesi (praticamente un parto!) di … More

An idea/suggestion: NAV Windows Client via Azure RemoteApp

This is an idea that’s rolling on my mind from a lot of time… Why Microsoft not provides a deploy … More

SQL Server backup on cloud

In my daily work I see different types of Microsoft SQL Server installations and different types of IT managers that … More

Google BigQuery: and Microsoft?

Google BigQuery is really a fascinating technology for big data analysis. In short terms BigQuery enables super-fast, SQL-like queries against … More