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Category: Cloud

Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises and SQL Server 2025.

Yesterday Microsoft announced the general availability for SQL Server 2025. This new edition brings important changes for partners and customers … More

Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, MSDyn365BC, MsDynNAV, NAV, Performance, SQL

Evaluating LLMs performances for your AI task: presenting my LLMEvaluator.

After my session about creating AI solutions in Dynamics 365 Business Central using Managed vs Custom AI at Directions EMEA … More

.NET, .NET Core, AI, Azure, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, llm, MSDyn365BC, Performance

Introducing YAMPI: the MCP server for Dynamics 365 Business Central administration.

At the end of November 2024 Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard and open-source framework created with the goal to standardize … More

AI, AL, Azure, Cloud, Copilot, D365BC, delegated admin, DevOps, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, MCP, MSDyn365BC, Performance, Security, Visual Studio Code

Dynamics 365 Business Central: announcing Italy North availability.

This is the post for the Italian customers and partners that I had in the bag from months. I think … More

Azure, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, MSDyn365BC, Performance

Dynamics 365 Business Central and Azure Front Door issue.

Yesterday I received (and read) lots of messages by many partners and customers related to the unavailability of the Dynamics … More

Azure, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, MSDyn365BC

Do you have Azure Functions running on Linux Consumption plan? It’s time to migrate…

If you have Azure Functions running on the Linux Consumption plan, it’s time to start planning for a migration. On … More

.NET, .NET Core, Azure, Azure Functions, Cloud, Integration, Serverless

Can I use AI to create and deploy an Azure Logic Apps with Business Central connector?

Today I’ve decided to do with AI a test that I’ve never done before: creating an Azure Logic App workflow … More

AI, Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Cloud, Copilot, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, MSDyn365BC, Serverless, Visual Studio Code

Azure Logic Apps: Built-in vs Managed Azure Blob Storage Connector.

When creating workflows with Azure Logic Apps that uses the Azure Blob Storage Connector, you have the possibility to select … More

Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, MSDyn365BC, Performance, Security, Serverless

Azure Logic Apps: are you handling large blobs? Keep memory usage under control.

When working with Dynamics 365 Business Central (and generally speaking on a lot of other serverless projects) it’s quite common … More

Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, MSDyn365BC, Performance, Power Automate, Serverless

High performance workflows with Azure Logic Apps: using Azure SQL as storage provider.

In the past I wrote many posts and also done a lots of sessions at different conferences about how to … More

Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Azure SQL, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, MSDyn365BC, Performance, Serverless, SQL

Dynamics 365 Business Central: using a static IP address to access APIs.

Sometimes in Dynamics 365 Business Central projects you can have very strict security requirements for integrations with third-party systems. One … More

.NET, Azure, Azure Functions, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, MSDyn365BC, Security, Serverless, Visual Studio Code

Azure Function SQL Trigger: how to use it (and why it can be useful in your Business Central projects)

This post comes as a follow-up of my “Serverless Integrations for Dynamics 365 Business Central” training I’ve done yesterday in … More

Azure, Azure Functions, Azure SQL, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Integration, MSDyn365BC, Serverless, SQL, Visual Studio Code

Dynamics 365 Business Central agent capabilities: how much does they cost me?

With Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 release (version 26) Microsoft officially launches the Sales Order Agent, the first … More

AI, Azure, Cloud, Copilot, Copilot Studio, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, Semantic Kernel

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 release: the state of SOAP deprecation.

I think that many of you know that quite a long time ago Microsoft raised an alert saying that exposing … More

API, Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, Telemetry

Dynamics 365 Business Central: the problem of large data deletion – part 2: AlterKey

Yesterday I talked about the always more increasing need to perform large data deletion in SaaS for some tables and … More

AL, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, Performance

Dynamics 365 Business Central: the problem of large data deletion.

In the last two months I was invited to speak at two partner’s events and during those events I had … More

AL, Azure, Azure SQL, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, NAV, Performance, SQL

Azure Logic Apps: create Standard Logic App projects in Visual Studio Code from Azure portal export

How many times you had the need to create a new Azure Logic App workflow starting from an existing one? … More

Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Cloud, Serverless

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1: checking app compatibility with future versions directly in Admin Center.

When an upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central major release is approaching (usually at least a month before so) Microsoft starts … More

Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC

Do you have strict security requirements for your workflows? Azure Logic Apps is the solution.

Low-code workflows for integrations between systems are a quite common scenario in many projects, from small to enterprise companies. And … More

Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Cloud, Power Automate, Security, Serverless

Dynamics 365 Business Central: merging PDFs online with an Azure Function.

Some days ago on an internal forum (Yammer) someone posted the following request: Is it possible in Dynamics 365 Business … More

.NET, .NET Core, AL, Azure, Azure Functions, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, MVP, Serverless, Visual Studio Code

Are local LLMs ready for production applications?

A Large Language Model (LLM) is an advanced type of artificial intelligence that uses deep learning techniques to understand, generate, … More

AI, Azure, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, llm, MSDyn365BC, PrivateAI, Semantic Kernel

It’s the end of the year and I’m thinking about AI…

I usually use the short holiday working period between Christmas 🎄and the new year for fully recharging my batteries and … More

AI, Azure, Cloud, Copilot, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, llm, MSDyn365BC

Dynamics 365 Business Central: what I want for Santa is…

Often when approaching the end of the year we love to contact our Dynamics 365 Business Central customers and asking … More

AL, Azure, Azure SQL, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, MVP, Performance

Azure Logic Apps: stateful and stateless workflows overview and performance comparison.

Azure Logic Apps Standard is a new deployment option for creating and running automated workflows in a single-tenant environment. This … More

Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, MSDyn365BC, Performance, Serverless

Dynamics 365 Business Central: be careful on your upgrade code.

It’s the second time that I see partners asking informations about the following message coming from Dynamics 365 Business Central: … More

AL, Azure, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, Performance, Telemetry

How Dynamics 365 Business Central handles incoming web service calls (for dummies).

In the last two days I was in Assago (Milano) at the WPC Conference, probably the most important IT conference … More

AL, API, Azure, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, OData, Performance

AI, Agents… and now?

As I think you all have noticed, we are in the middle of a revolution in the IT world where … More

AI, Azure, Cloud, Copilot, Copilot Studio, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, MSDyn365BC, Power Platform, Semantic Kernel

Dynamics 365 Business Central: AppSource and PTE apps under the hood.

I think that everyone of you know the difference between a Dynamics 365 Business Central AppSource extension and a per-tenant … More

AL, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Cloud Migration FAQ (Directions EMEA version)

At Directions EMEA 2024 in Vienna I talked a bit about the Cloud Migration tool during the Microsoft Regional Session … More

Azure SQL, Cloud, Cloud Migration, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, MsDynNAV, NAV, SQL

Me @ Directions EMEA 2024

Also this year Directions EMEA conference is approaching and next week all the EMEA’s Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central partner’s … More

AL, Cloud, Conference, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, Microsoft, MSDyn365BC, MVP, Performance

Azure Logic Apps Standard: worflow’s run retention history configuration.

When you create an Azure Logic Apps Standard workflow for your integrations (maybe with your Dynamics 365 Business Central ERP, … More

Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Integration, MSDyn365BC, Serverless

Restrict Azure Logic Apps’s workflows access only to Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Some week ago I wrote an article explaining how you can restrict Azure Logic Apps workflows access to certain IP … More

AL, Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, Security, Serverless, Visual Studio Code

Returning to WPC Conference

It was the year 2002, Microsoft was launching a mysterious and promising platform called .NET and in that year I … More

AI, Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Cloud, Conference, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, MCT, MSDyn365BC, MVP, Semantic Kernel

Dynamics 365 Business Central: triggering an Azure DevOps pipeline when a tenant upgrade occurs.

Last week I had a quick message exchangement with a partner asking how to automatically trigger an Azure DevOps pipeline … More

Application Insights, Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Monitor, AzureDevOps, Cloud, D365BC, DevOps, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, MSDyn365BC, Telemetry

Dynamics 365 Business Central: HttpClient and remote certificate validation future changes.

I think that everyone of you know that the AL HttpClient data type provides a data type for sending HTTP … More

AL, Cloud, D365BC, Dynamics 365 Business Central, ERP, Extensions, MSDyn365BC, Security, Visual Studio Code

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