Azure Logic Apps workflows: restrict access by IP ranges.

Azure Logic Apps is a great technology to use when integrating Dynamics 365 Business Central with external systems. It permits … More

Running inline C# scripts in Azure Logic Apps workflows

Last week I wrote a post explaining the new Inline Powershell action available in Azure Logic Apps standard. With this … More

Running Powershell scripts in Azure Logic Apps workflows.

Few days ago the Azure Logic Apps team publicly released the preview of the inline PowerShell action, that permits you … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Cloud Migration secrets and tips.

I think that everyone of you know that you can quite easily migrate from Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises to … More

Do you have again Classic Azure Storage Accounts? These are the last days for migrate and avoid service disruptions.

On 31 August 2024, Microsoft will retire the Cloud Services (classic) deployment model (the announcement was made by Microsoft in March 2022). Before that date, you’ll need … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and Power Automate Connector: create, modify, delete triggers things to know.

Power Automate (and as I always say in this case, Azure Logic Apps too) has a great connector for Dynamics … More

Prevent prompt injections in your Azure OpenAI and Copilots implementations.

If any of you have ever developed Windows or Web applications connected to a SQL database in C# or other … More

Semantic Search and Vectors support on Dynamics 365 Business Central: this is the right moment.

Some weeks ago we had a nice interview with two amazing US guys (Brad Prendergast and Kristoffer Ruyeras aka Kris … More

Are you ready for the most mystical conference of the year?

3 days until DynamicsMinds 2024 in Portoroz (Slovenia) starts, a 4 days community conference covering Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: monitoring field changes with telemetry is better…

In a traditional Dynamics 365 Business Central project, expecially when the customer is a large company, it’s quite often requested … More

Azure Functions: .NET 7 support is ending and you should upgrade to .NET 8.

On 14 May 2024, support for .NET 7 in Azure Functions will end. Your Function apps that are currently using .NET … More

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