Some days ago I was with a partner for checking a Dynamics 365 Business Central project. This project has a … More
Category: Cloud
Do you have Azure Functions in production? Update your Azure Functions apps to use runtime version 4.x
On December 3, 2022, .NET Core 3.1 will be retired. As a result, Azure Functions runtime versions 2.x and 3.x, … More
Testing Azure Functions or Dynamics 365 Business Central API calls performances with BenchmarkDotNet
In these days, for a big cloud-based project, I had the need to conduct an assessment of the different cloud … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: custom Onedrive integrations
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 (version 20) enhanced the integration with Onedrive for Business, the cloud storage service … More
Microsoft Reactor: Proactive monitoring of your Azure cloud applications
Are you interested on efficiently monitoring your Azure cloud workloads? Are you curious about all the monitoring possibilities (and more) … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: clarification about OAuth2 authentication in v20
In a recent event we had with the partners community on the new Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 … More
Azure tenant’s telemetry at your fingertips
Monitoring is an essential task for handling a cloud tenant at best. Azure has built-in features for monitoring a tenant, … More
Querying telemetries from multiple Application Insights instances
During the last week’s Microsoft WE Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry webcast (day 2 of a 3 part serie) I … More
Secure life in a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant
Dynamics 365 Business Central has moved the ERP (core part of every corporate business) to the cloud and this was … More
Azure AD app registration secrets: a quick script to check who expires soon
When setting Azure AD app registration for using OAUTH 2 authentication, you need to create a client secret: A client … More
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