PREFACE: Microsoft has created two wonderful Power BI apps for analyzing Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry: and these (together with … More
Category: Cloud
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
Introducing Azure Managed Grafana for improving your Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry views
Have you ever heard about Grafana? Grafana is an open and composable observability and data visualization platform that permits you … More
Using Azure File Share: best practices
Azure Files is essentially a fully managed serverless file share hosted on Azure accessible via the industry standard protocols like … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: transitioning from Delegated Admins to Granular Delegated Admins
At the beginning of this year I’ve shared a post explaining the new Granular Delegated Administrator privileges for Microsoft 365 … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: filtering telemetry signals with Azure Monitor Data Collection Rules
One of the main issues on using Azure Application Insights for collecting telemetry from a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant … More
Testing Azure Functions performances with Azure Load Testing
If someone of you remember, in the past I wrote about doing performance testing of Azure Functions using tools like … More
Timer Trigger Azure Functions: handling retry policies
In my last post about serverless architectures for decoupling integrations between Dynamics 365 Business Central and external applications, I’ve talked … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: queue usage to decouple your serverless integrations
In the last weeks I had lots of requests and discussions by partners in the Dynamics community asking for a … More
Azure Functions: getting the client IP address
When using Azure Functions, sometimes is required to log the IP address of the client calling your function app. Unfortunately, … More
Testing multiple Azure Functions apps running together with Microsoft Tye
If you frequently work with serverless architectures and expecially with Azure Functions, I think that you know that splitting a … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: set up alerts on job queue failures
Some days ago I was with a partner for checking a Dynamics 365 Business Central project. This project has a … More
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
Stefano Demiliani 