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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the AL profiler

With the Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2 release (version 19), silently a new hidden feature was introduced: the … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: cleaning sensitive configurations when copying production to sandbox

When working with Dynamics 365 Business Central on real projects, I think that it’s quite common to have the need … 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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: delegated admins and AAD guests users

When working with your Dynamics 365 Business Central online customers, one of the first thing you should do as a … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: how to create an online sandbox based on W1

I’m receiving a lot of time the same question: “how can I create an online sandbox with W1 version?” so … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs Load Testing with JMeter

Yesterday I saw a Twitter thread asking for suggestions about tools for load testing APIs. There are lots of tools … 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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: automatically update library apps when updating your main app

Yesterday I had a chat with a Partner that was stuck with a problem on some SaaS tenants. Problem can … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and .NET add-ins (part 2): why .NET Standard?

As a follow-up to this post, I’ve received some questions related to why we talked about .NET Standard if the … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and .NET Framework add-ins: it’s time to change

With Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 1 Microsoft is continuously moving the server to .NET Standard and if you’re … 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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: SOAP and Basic Authentication deprecation

If you’re using web services with Dynamics 365 Business Central version, from version 17.X you should always check the notifications … 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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: the impact of tableextensions

I think that everyone of you already knows that when working with Dynamics 365 Business Central, table extensions are killers … 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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: using snapshot debugging

One of the top requested features for Dynamics 365 Business Central from a long time is absolutely one: debugging the … 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

“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

Tips for handling a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant at best

Handling a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant in a cloud environment is not exactly like handling it on an … 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