On 14 May 2024, support for .NET 7 in Azure Functions will end. Your Function apps that are currently using .NET … More
Category: Cloud
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
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
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 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
“Decoupling”: the misterious word for many Dynamics 365 Business Central partners.
In the last year I’m seeing lots of existing Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises customers deciding to move their ERP … 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
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 and large data export to Excel via Power Automate: use Graph API.
One of the quite common scenarios that I often see in many Dynamics 365 Business Central projects is something like … 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 2023 Wave 2 release: measuring the impact of the new data structure
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (v23) introduces important changes on the new data structure for table extensions … 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
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 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
Using IP Firewall rules in Dataverse to allow only Dynamics 365 Business Central and your local network traffic
Microsoft has publicly announced in these days that the Global rollout of the public preview for the Dataverse IP Firewall … 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
Introducing Azure AD Cross-Tenant Synchronization
In the today’s cloud world is quite common that a company A has its own AD tenant with Microsoft 365 … 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