Dataverse: introducing the new Elastic tables

I don’ know if you have yet discovered that, but some days ago a new table type option called Elastic … More

Azure Blob Storage: upload and download latency between Standard and Premium tiers.

Azure Storage offers several types of storage accounts. Each type supports different features and has its own pricing model. The … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and SQL Server 2022

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 release (version 22) officially supports SQL Server 2022. This means that you can … More

Azure Service Tags and Dynamics 365 Business Central

Yesterday I’ve done a webcast detailing all the new features available in Dynamics 365 Business Central and I’ve also mentioned … More

Azure Logic Apps: KQL for having an overview of your scheduled workflows

Last week I was working with a partner on creating some cloud-based workflows for Dynamics 365 Business Central integrations with … More

Introducing Copilot for Dynamics 365 Business Central

Microsoft today has publicly announced the next generation of AI product updates across their business applications portfolio, including the launch … More

Azure Logic Apps: retrieving the exception details of an action group in a flow

In Azure Logic Apps (and in Power Automate too) to execute actions only if another group of actions succeed or … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central, Azure SQL and Optimized Locking

Optimized locking is a new Azure SQL database engine feature recently announced that drastically reduces lock memory and the number … More

Azure Logic Apps and polling: are you always doing the best choice?

How often in your real world projects have you the need to poll an external system or an external source … More

Monitoring your Azure Logic Apps workflows in an advanced way with telemetries

I talked here a lot on monitoring a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant by using telemetry, but the telemetry practice … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: retrieving Azure AD User informations via AL

I saw many partners in the past days asking how to retrieve informations about the current Dynamics 365 Business Central … More

Telemetry with Azure Application Insights: prevent anomalies on data ingestion

Some days ago I was helping a partner on setting up the telemetries for one of their customer’s Dynamics 365 … More

Azure Service Bus: introducing partitioning in Premium tier

If you was at my recent training about extending Dynamics 365 Business Central with Azure services in Microsof Italy or … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry: new year improvements and news

I think that you already know that the area of telemetries is a fast moving area in the Dynamics 365 … More

Are you using proxies with Azure Functions? Start moving to Azure API Management.

When working with lots of Azure Functions apps or in microservices architectures with a moderate workload, it’s quite common to … More

Some tips to improve security of your Azure Blob Storage (expecially with Dynamics 365 Business Central)

In these days I’m happy to see that after my latest Azure training in Microsoft Italy (3 weeks ago) many … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry report as Adaptive Card on Teams

During my telemetry session at last Directions EMEA in Hamburg and also on my latest Telemetry workshop in Microsoft Italy … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry: Grafana dashboard template

PREFACE: Microsoft has created two wonderful Power BI apps for analyzing Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry: and these (together with … More

Azure Blob Storage and SFTP support

I received in the past lots of requests about how to use FTP in a SaaS environment (expecially with Dynamics … More

SWIFT message processing using Azure Logic Apps

Few days ago the Azure Logic Apps Team announced the Public Preview of SWIFT MT encoder and decoder for Azure … More

Azure Functions cold start: impact on Dynamics 365 Business Central webhooks

I think that many of you know what Dynamics 365 Business Central webhooks are. In few words, webhooks is the … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and “Save as you type” feature: impact on Azure Logic App Consumption

I don’t want to return again on the topic of the impact introduced with the new “Save as you type” … More

Me @ Directions EMEA 2022

In a month or so (exact starting date is November 9, 2022) a new edition of Directions EMEA conference will … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and integration workflows: why Azure Logic Apps are often a better choice than Power Automate

When talking about integrations between Dynamics 365 Business Central and external applications, in lots of real-world projects I see that … More

Azure Logic Apps and Recurrence Trigger: the “At these minutes” parameter mistery.

Yesterday I received a support request from a partner regarding a Timer Triggered Azure Logic App workflow. For who don’t … More

Processing Azure Blob Storage events with Azure Event Grid, Logic Apps and Azure Functions (real case)

Problem raised by a customer: “We are using Azure Blob Storage with a Dynamics 365 Business Central solution. The solution … More

Introducing Azure Managed Grafana for improving your Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry views

Have you ever heard about Grafana? Grafana is an open and composable observability and data visualization platform that permits you … More

Using Azure File Share: best practices

Azure Files is essentially a fully managed serverless file share hosted on Azure accessible via the industry standard protocols like … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: transitioning from Delegated Admins to Granular Delegated Admins

At the beginning of this year I’ve shared a post explaining the new Granular Delegated Administrator privileges for Microsoft 365 … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: filtering telemetry signals with Azure Monitor Data Collection Rules

One of the main issues on using Azure Application Insights for collecting telemetry from a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant … More

Testing Azure Functions performances with Azure Load Testing

If someone of you remember, in the past I wrote about doing performance testing of Azure Functions using tools like … More

Timer Trigger Azure Functions: handling retry policies

In my last post about serverless architectures for decoupling integrations between Dynamics 365 Business Central and external applications, I’ve talked … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: queue usage to decouple your serverless integrations

In the last weeks I had lots of requests and discussions by partners in the Dynamics community asking for a … More

Azure Functions: getting the client IP address

When using Azure Functions, sometimes is required to log the IP address of the client calling your function app. Unfortunately, … More