More than an year ago I wrote this article for Simplanova website mentioning some “architectural choices” when moving a C/AL…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: again about obsoleting fields
More than an year ago I’ve written this post explaining how to handle breaking schema changes on a production Dynamics…
“Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central” is out!
Just in time for Christmas, I’m very happy and proud to announce that the book “Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central”…
Planned activities for Dynamics 365 Business Central Partners in 2020: quick preview
I’ve received (and I’m receiving too) a lot of emails and messages on social networks from many of you asking…
LinkedObjects on Dynamics 365 Business Central: be careful now!
One of the common (and basic) way to create integrations between systems in Microsoft Dynamics NAV in the past was…
Webhooks with Dynamics 365 Business Central
When integrating external applications with Dynamics 365 Business Central, one of the classical way is to use APIs (standard or…
Dynamics 365 Business Central Sandbox and performance testing
During the last technical workshops done for Microsoft in Finland and Norway, I’ve discovered that many partners are doing (together…
New book “Migrating applications to the cloud with Azure” finally released
While waiting to officially announce to the Dynamics 365 Business Central community our latest and biggest work ever, I’m happy…
Exposing Dynamics 365 Business Central data to the outside world: my two cents
I had a discussion in the last days on socials with some of my followers (yes, I have them :D)…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: handling telemetry with Azure Application Insights
Handling telemetry is on of the most important activities that should always be done on a Dynamics 365 Business Central…
CI/CD for .NET with GithHub Actions
We manage all our internal projects with Azure DevOps (projects not only related to Dynamics 365 Business Central). All our…
SD Extension Pack for Dynamics 365 Business Central Developers
On all the Dynamics 365 Business Central training activities I’ve done in the last year for Microsoft Italy, I’ve always…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: exporting a database backup from a SaaS tenant
Microsoft has recently activated the feature for downloading a backup of a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant. A database…
Visual Studio Online preview: coding in the browser seems promising.
Today at Ignite 2019 Microsoft has launched the public preview for Visual Studio Online, a managed cloud-based development environment based…
“Azure Functions for Dynamics 365 Business Central Developers” webcast recording
The recording of my last webcast for Areopa Academy is available on their YouTube channel. Again, sorry for the initial…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Using Azure Traffic Manager to geo-distribute your Azure Functions
Some months ago I’ve written this post describing an interesting solution we’ve deployed for a geo-distributed solution that involves Dynamics…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: debugging the Base Application
Yesterday at our “Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 What’s new” event in Microsoft Italy we quickly saw hot to…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: TRANSFERFIELDS and Obsolete fields
Do you know the wonderful C/AL (ops, now AL) command called TRANSFERFIELDS? This command permits you to copy all matching…
Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise Wave 2: how to create databases and perform technical upgrades
I’ve explained few days ago how to change a license from customer’s one to partner’s one when working with Dynamics…
Landing to Directions EMEA 2019…
This is the meeting’s week for all the european Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central partners (and not only them I…
Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise Wave 2: changing license
I was sure this was an obvious topic until today, but after receiving so many desperate questions from partners that…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: checking Users Plans in Wave 2 release
Checking which plan is assigned to a specific user (Essential, Premium, Team Member) is become a quite different thing with…
Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs, Powershell, CSV and a bit of fancy notifications
In one of my last development workshops for Microsoft Italy, when talking about Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs, I’ve done…
Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2: customizing the Base Application
In a previous post I described how you can start building extensions for the upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2…
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…
Dynamics 365 BC Wave 2 Release: What happens now?
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 release date is just around the corner and there are many aspects of…
Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2: on-premise and direct SQL integrations
Do you remember this post? I wrote it long time ago to explain what happens on SQL Server when you…
Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2: building apps on top of System Application
As you already knows from this official Microsoft post, with Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 release Microsoft has splitted…
Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise: checking extension’s status via Powershell
An interesting question pops out yesterday: with Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise, how can I programmatically check if a particular…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: access modifiers
If someone of you know C# or other object oriented languages in general, you know also that those languages have…
“Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central” book: please wait a bit more…
We have received in this last month lots of requests about our upcoming “Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central” book, published…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: multiple production environments and web service endpoints
One of the most interesting features announced for the Wave 2 release of Dynamics 365 Business Central is the possibility…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: data encryption changements for Isolated Storage
I suggested many times in the past to every partners I met and to all the attendees to my AL…
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…
Preview of Dynamics 365 Business Central 2019 release wave 2: few notes
As you already knows, in October Microsoft will launch what is called “Dynamics 365 Business Central Release Wave 2” (platform…
