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Category: Dynamics 365 Business Central
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2 (version 19): what to expect
Today Microsoft has officially shared the 2021 Wave 2 Release plans for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Here are the … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dataverse integration: it’s time to upgrade your connections
One of the coolest feature in Dynamics 365 Business Central is surely the Dataverse integration, a foundamental building block for … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: save report dataset to Excel
Dynamics 365 Business Central version 18.3 introduces a new interesting feature for report developers or consultants: the ability to export … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Data Administration
Related to the new storage policy post I’ve written some days ago, someone of you have asked if it’s possible … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: start thinking on storing Blobs outside of the database
July 1, 2021 is tomorrow and, as previously announced by Microsoft, the new Dynamics 365 Business Central database capacity changes … 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
Dynamics 365 Business Central: SetLoadFields performances with reference passing or value passing parameters
I’ve written in the past some posts with tips on how to write code for performances and how to be … 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: creating a DGML dependency graph for your extensions
Have you ever had the need or the requirement to create a graphical diagram of the building blocks of your … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: thecontextSensitiveHelpUrl parameter and malicious urls
This is a very quick post for signaling a potential problem when you distribute your apps (per-tenant extensions) to your … 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
Dynamics 365 Business Central: native support for barcodes
When working with an ERP, using barcodes on different reports is a common practice and I think that every ERP … 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
Dynamics 365 Business Central connector for Power Platform update
This is a very quick post just to notify all of you that are using Microsoft Power Platform with Dynamics … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the reportextension object
One of the noisy limitations on Dynamics 365 Business Central until version 17.X was the impossibility to extend standard reports. … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: ClearAll is evil, again!
When Dynamics 365 Business Central version 16 was launched, I remember that a weird problem was signaled to Microsoft related … 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: per-tenant extensions and conflicts with standard Microsoft’s fields
Some weeks ago I received two emails from contacts where they submitted me two interesting “bad problems” that blocked them … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: are your AppSource apps ready for 2021 Wave 1 release?
As I think you already know, with Dynamics 365 Business Central 2019 release wave 2 (version 15) Microsoft has marked … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: returning complex types from AL
I think that every AL developer dreams that a day AL will be a full Object Oriented programming language like … 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
Dynamics 365 Business Central: automatically import custom report layouts with extensions
Do you love reports? Personally, NO! 🙂 But that is, as a Business Central developer I think that sometimes (forced … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: point in time restore of a Production environment
Yesterday Microsoft has officially released one of the most requested feature for the Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS environment: point … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Batch API calls and max number of operations
The standard (and for what I can see most used) way of using Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs is by … 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
Using Powershell to retrieve your Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry
Telemetry, telemetry, telemetry… this is an hot topic in your developer’s and admin’s life in the cloud. We have talked … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: per-tenant extensions changes
Do you remember this slide? This was (and is) one of my most shared slides ever (from me, from third-party … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: be careful when using the OnCompanyOpen trigger
Today I was helping a partner on discovering performance issues on its Dynamics 365 Business Central online tenant. When analyzing … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: creating retention policies from AL
Starting from Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2 (v17) administrators can define retention policies for tables to specify how … More
