This post comes from a request I’ve received today regarding a problem on opening an attachment to a Purchase Order…
Azure SQL and Information Protection (GDPR)
I’m talking a lot on this blog about Azure SQL and its usage as a PaaS database engine for many…
AL (at least half of its heart) will love .NET
In one of my recent posts, I’ve talked about one of the main difficulties that many partners around the world…
NAV Developer Preview February Update
The bits are ready for playing, all details here. Very interesting the new Synchronize feature when deploying extensions and the…
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Extensions and the add-in pains
In these days I was in contact with many partners trying to migrate their NAV solutions to the new Extensions…
Microsoft Dynamics NAV on Azure SQL: performance tuning
In the previous days, we’ve discussed a serie of benefits of using Azure SQL Database with NAV if you’re planning…
Deploying NAV to the cloud: Azure VM costs
In one of my recent posts, we’ve seen how very cost-effective could be implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV on Azure. Regarding…
NAV 2018 Cumulative Update 2 released
A fresh news: NAV 2018 CU2 is ready to be downloaded. Lots of fixes, this is the platform to start…
An alternative Job Scheduler for NAV
As all of you (NAV developers) already knows, Microsoft Dynamics NAV has a built-in job scheduler (Job Queue) useful if…
New book: Implementing Azure Cloud Design Patterns
I’ve spent few words some weeks ago for previewing these, but now it’s the time for an official announcement. I’m…
Microsoft Dynamics NAV vs SAP again (reposted)
I repost here an article that comes from my old blog because there are customers that asks me something about…
Serialize NAV objects as JSON
Today in a forum someone asks this question: can I serialize a Microsoft Dynamics NAV object (record in a table)…
Azure SQL needs more consideration with NAV
When deploying a solution architecture with Microsoft Dynamics NAV as the ERP of your choice, you already know that the…
Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Data Encryption
In a moment where topics like GDPR and privacy are so hot, encrypting sensitive informations in your NAV database is…
NAV: DotNet types and Extensions V2
I’m seeing in these days that many NAV partners are starting “tests” in order to move some of their Microsoft…
Handling exceptions inside NAV when using Web Services integration
In a forum post I’ve recently received a request on how to handle a scenario like the following: an external…
GDPR: is enough a software update?
I’m reading many GDPR related posts and questions on forums in these days, especially regarding Microsoft Dynamics NAV and other…
Adapting old legacy apps for the cloud
The switch to the cloud is not so quick, at least here in Italy, but fortunately I can see a…
Microsoft Dynamics 365 (aka NAV) desiderata and suggestions
In the past days a Microsoft insider asks me to share with him some requests/suggestions to share with the NAV…
Explaining the Cloud…
New book: Building ERP solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Today is THE DATE! After 9 months of work, we’re ready to go: my new book Building ERP solutions with Microsoft…
New book: Building ERP solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV (ITA version)
Ebbene si… ora è ufficiale e possiamo divulgare al mondo la notizia 🙂 Dopo 9 mesi (praticamente un parto!) di…
Dynamics 365: confusion to the max!
Yesterday Microsoft has announced Dynamics 365, its new approach to cloud-based business Apps. Here you can find responses to many…
Microsoft Project “Madeira”: my opinion
As many of you already knows, in April Microsoft has released the first public preview of Madeira, their SaaS ERP…
Microsoft PowerApps: finally!
Today the official announcement of something cool that was in the air from a long time and that closes the…
.NET Core and ASP.NET 5 RC available for production
Exciting news are coming from Connect() 2015 event. All is well summarized here, but I want to put in evidence…
NAV 2016: a little web client feature to have everywhere…
With NAV 2016, Microsoft has improved a lot the Web Client, starting from the startup time (now very fast!) to…
The SQL Authentication return with NAV 2016.
As you know, in previous NAV versions (3-tier) you can access the system by using 4 different authentication types: Windows…
An idea/suggestion: NAV Windows Client via Azure RemoteApp
This is an idea that’s rolling on my mind from a lot of time… Why Microsoft not provides a deploy…
NAV 2016 and TryFunctions: epic fail?
When I was at Directions EMEA some weeks ago and for the first time I saw a brief explanation on…
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 201X: my desiderata…
NAV 2016 was launched 5 days ago and it’s really an exciting release. Microsoft has lots and lots of plans…
NAV 2016: please forgot the C/AL array :)
One of the hidden new feature of NAV 2016 and C/AL language is the possibility to loop on a .NET…
NAV 2016 is here…
Just few words directly from Germany to announce you that from today Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 is available for production.…
Directions EMEA 2015
From 5 to 7 October we’ll be in Mannheim (Germany) for the Directions EMEA event and the official worldwide launch…
What’s on your personal IT?
This post comes after a nice discussion with a friend yesterday, expecially after the sentence “you’re a strange Microsoft-addicted man“……
