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

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

Dynamics 365 Business Central, Azure Functions and telemetries: best practices

Last week at DynamicsMinds conference, after my session about Azure Functions I’ve received an interesting question: in a context of … More

Azure Blob Storage: upload and download latency between Standard and Premium tiers.

Azure Storage offers several types of storage accounts. Each type supports different features and has its own pricing model. The … More

Azure Service Tags and Dynamics 365 Business Central

Yesterday I’ve done a webcast detailing all the new features available in Dynamics 365 Business Central and I’ve also mentioned … More

Azure Logic Apps: KQL for having an overview of your scheduled workflows

Last week I was working with a partner on creating some cloud-based workflows for Dynamics 365 Business Central integrations with … More

Azure Logic Apps: retrieving the exception details of an action group in a flow

In Azure Logic Apps (and in Power Automate too) to execute actions only if another group of actions succeed or … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central, Azure SQL and Optimized Locking

Optimized locking is a new Azure SQL database engine feature recently announced that drastically reduces lock memory and the number … More

Azure Logic Apps and polling: are you always doing the best choice?

How often in your real world projects have you the need to poll an external system or an external source … More

Monitoring your Azure Logic Apps workflows in an advanced way with telemetries

I talked here a lot on monitoring a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant by using telemetry, but the telemetry practice … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: retrieving Azure AD User informations via AL

I saw many partners in the past days asking how to retrieve informations about the current Dynamics 365 Business Central … More

Telemetry with Azure Application Insights: prevent anomalies on data ingestion

Some days ago I was helping a partner on setting up the telemetries for one of their customer’s Dynamics 365 … More

Azure Service Bus: introducing partitioning in Premium tier

If you was at my recent training about extending Dynamics 365 Business Central with Azure services in Microsof Italy or … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry: new year improvements and news

I think that you already know that the area of telemetries is a fast moving area in the Dynamics 365 … More

Are you using proxies with Azure Functions? Start moving to Azure API Management.

When working with lots of Azure Functions apps or in microservices architectures with a moderate workload, it’s quite common to … More

Some tips to improve security of your Azure Blob Storage (expecially with Dynamics 365 Business Central)

In these days I’m happy to see that after my latest Azure training in Microsoft Italy (3 weeks ago) many … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry report as Adaptive Card on Teams

During my telemetry session at last Directions EMEA in Hamburg and also on my latest Telemetry workshop in Microsoft Italy … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry: Grafana dashboard template

PREFACE: Microsoft has created two wonderful Power BI apps for analyzing Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry: and these (together with … More

Azure Blob Storage and SFTP support

I received in the past lots of requests about how to use FTP in a SaaS environment (expecially with Dynamics … More

SWIFT message processing using Azure Logic Apps

Few days ago the Azure Logic Apps Team announced the Public Preview of SWIFT MT encoder and decoder for Azure … More

Azure Functions cold start: impact on Dynamics 365 Business Central webhooks

I think that many of you know what Dynamics 365 Business Central webhooks are. In few words, webhooks is the … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and “Save as you type” feature: impact on Azure Logic App Consumption

I don’t want to return again on the topic of the impact introduced with the new “Save as you type” … More

Me @ Directions EMEA 2022

In a month or so (exact starting date is November 9, 2022) a new edition of Directions EMEA conference will … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and integration workflows: why Azure Logic Apps are often a better choice than Power Automate

When talking about integrations between Dynamics 365 Business Central and external applications, in lots of real-world projects I see that … More

Azure Logic Apps and Recurrence Trigger: the “At these minutes” parameter mistery.

Yesterday I received a support request from a partner regarding a Timer Triggered Azure Logic App workflow. For who don’t … More

Processing Azure Blob Storage events with Azure Event Grid, Logic Apps and Azure Functions (real case)

Problem raised by a customer: “We are using Azure Blob Storage with a Dynamics 365 Business Central solution. The solution … More