Dynamics 365 Business Central and data compression

Yesterday Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan (from the Dynamics 365 Business Central Team) asked us an interesting question: do you use data … More

Executing your .exe tasks on a Cloud environment by using Azure Functions

I think that many of you on your Dynamics NAV or Dynamics 365 Business Central projects have tasks executed by … More

Creating an Azure SQL Database backup via Powershell

I have several Azure SQL databases (mainly Microsoft Dynamics NAV databases) on different Azure subscriptions and often I need to … More

Azure SQL Elastic Pools: a way for saving costs with your Microsoft Dynamics ERP databases in the cloud

I’ve written a lot in the past about how you can move your existing on-premise Microsoft Dynamics NAV / Dynamics … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central End of year 2018 Survey

During this entire year 2018 the Microsoft Dynamics ERP family has changed (and you know that for sure) and Microsoft … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise and .NET assemblies: things to know

I’ve written in the past how to use .NET assemblies in AL for your on-premise extensions and all is also … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS: upgrades and data migration “things to know”

Despite the Microsoft ERP proposition (on-premise vs SaaS), many customers are still full with doubts on what is the best … More

Enabling Remote Powershell connections to a Dynamics 365 Business Central Azure VM sandbox

When developing with Dynamics 365 Business Central in teams, you could have in-place different sandbox environments for developing or testing … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: the impact for partners and developers (my article for Simplanova)

As you already know, Microsoft Dynamics ERP’s family is having a big evolution this year. Microsoft Dynamics NAV is now the past, … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central/NAV on Azure VMs: tips for best network performances

Many months ago I wrote a series of posts related to best practices to remember when deploying Microsoft Dynamics NAV … More

ISV solution and transition from C/AL to AL extension: how to start (my article for Simplanova.com)

My friends of Simplanova kindly asked me to be a “guest blogger” on their website. The topic of this first … More

Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise: why don’t you resize your Azure VMs?

This post comes after spending two days working with some customers that have started to move all their on-premise infrastructure … More

NAV 2018 and Dynamics 365 Business Central: Is Rapidstart too slow? This is the fix.

In an internal mailing list today was asked a question regarding Rapidstart packages in NAV 2018. Many users and partners … More

Dynamics NAV: printing external documents and merging PDF files

These are old topics and someone has written on a solution for this in the past, but after some forum … More

Using SQL Data Sync with Microsoft Dynamics NAV on-premise and Azure SQL Database

In many Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementations we have situations where the NAV database is often “coupled” with a second database … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central Extensions Development + NAV on Azure Workshop on Microsoft Italy (stage 2)

After the full stage 1, I’ll wait you tomorrow again in Microsoft Italy in Milan for the second slot of … More

Developing Dynamics 365 Business Central Extensions: use code analysis to prevent strange errors.

You’ve developed a marvellous 😀 extension for Dynamics 365 Business Central and tested it on your development sandbox without problems. Now, … More

Backup your NAV on-premise database to Azure Blob Storage

In these days we had an internal discussion with our marketing department in order to increase the Azure adoption of … More

Developing NAV / Dynamics 365 Business Central Extensions with real-time collaboration

At Build 2018 Microsoft has showed the new collaborative features introduced for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, called Visual … More

Dynamics NAV and the strange FaultCode=InvalidSecurity error

A quick post for answering a user question regarding an error when connecting to his NAV server instance using the … More

“Dynamics 365 Business Central + NAV on Cloud” Technical Workshop on Microsoft Italy

I’ll have the pleasure and the honour to perform a 2 days Technical Workshop about Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central … More

Microsoft Flow and Dynamics NAV / Dynamics 365 Business Central: a quick clarification

In the past days many Microsoft Flow users noted that, when creating a new workflow connected to a Dynamics NAV … More

GDPR features on Dynamics 365 Business Central and NAV 2018 CU 04: overview

With the release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 CU 04, GDPR support in NAV 2018 goes to a step forward. … More

Microsoft Dynamics NAV on Azure: SQL Server on Azure VM best practices

When talking about Microsoft Dynamics NAV installed on Azure, we have mainly two choices: use an Azure VM with SQL … More

NAV Events: the strange behaviour that I hate… the

Events in Microsoft Dynamics NAV (and in Dynamics 365 Business Central) are one of the best features of the platform … More

Disabling users to access NAV with specific client types

Today on forums was out this question: how to disable access to Microsoft Dynamics NAV Web Client for specific users? … More

Yes… I’m a Microsoft MVP

April, 2 2018. This was a great day for me! After a day spent with my family in our wonderful … More

Serverless processing with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Azure Functions

Deploying Microsoft Dynamics NAV to the Azure cloud (IaaS) is now one of our first proposal on every new customer. … More

NAV Session Event table: cleanup

The Session Event table (ID 2000000111) is a table present in the NAV database starting from NAV 2013. In this … More

NAV on Docker: running it on an Azure Container Instance

A container image is a lightweight, stand-alone, executable package of a piece of software that includes everything needed to run … More

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Q&A

The official Mcrosoft’s announcement of the upcoming release of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (the SaaS ERP proposition based on … More

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central release dates

Save this date: Dynamics 365 Business Central will be generally available on April 2, 2018 in 14 countries (United States, … More

Bye bye “Tenerife”…

And welcome back to the new brand: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Editions seems to be revealed (Essentials and Premium) … More