Last week at Directions EMEA I had the pleasure to meet and talk with many of you in person and … More
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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
Dynamics 365 Business Central: SOAP and Basic Authentication deprecation
If you’re using web services with Dynamics 365 Business Central version, from version 17.X you should always check the notifications … More
Securing your Azure SQL Database with a private endpoint
Some days ago I discussed with some partners the architecture of a possible datawarehouse system for external BI analysis connected … More
Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure made it to the Best Microsoft Azure Books of All Time
I’m happy to announce that our book, “Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure: Re-architect and rebuild your applications using … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: the impact of tableextensions
I think that everyone of you already knows that when working with Dynamics 365 Business Central, table extensions are killers … More
Moving Azure Functions from Consumption to Premium plans
In a demo at the Microsoft’s Reactor event in October I talked about the performance advantages on moving Azure Functions … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using snapshot debugging
One of the top requested features for Dynamics 365 Business Central from a long time is absolutely one: debugging the … More
How much my Application Insights service costs?
This is a question that I’ve received many times and also this morning I had a discussion with a partner … More
“Azure DevOps Explained” book announcement
I’m very happy and proud to announce the hard work I’ve done during the quarantine together with two great MVPs … More
Tips for handling a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant at best
Handling a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant in a cloud environment is not exactly like handling it on an … More
Creating lightweight Teams bots with outgoing webhooks and Azure Functions
Microsoft Teams is becoming always more a central point for the everyday’s work on many of us now and often … More
Handling the “HTTP 429 – Too Many Requests” error when calling external services
I think that many of you that creates integrations with external services could have the pleasure to know the HTTP … More
Dynamics 365 ERP landscape report
Earlier this year, I was pleased to be asked to contribute my thoughts on the current ERP landscape for the … More
Creating a local drive mapped with an Azure File Share for your files in the cloud
File Management in the cloud is always an hot topic when using SaaS services like Dynamics 365 Business Central. A … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: exploring page views with Azure Application Insights
I think that you already know that I’m a huge fan of using Azure Application Insights for collecting telemetry for … More
Using Azure Logic Apps for creating a Dynamics 365 Business Central container on Azure Container Instances
A week ago I’ve written a post explaining how to create a Dynamics 365 Business Central Docker container on Azure … More
Creating a Dynamics 365 Business Central Docker container with artifacts on Azure Container Instances
Azure Container Instances (ACI) is a great service offered by Azure that permits you to run serverless Docker containers in … More
Securing your HTTP triggered flow in Power Automate
This is a quick post for giving a response to a question that comes out in our latest Microsoft’s webcast … More
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