Last week I was working with a partner on creating some cloud-based workflows for Dynamics 365 Business Central integrations with … More
Tag: Azure
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
Testing multiple Azure Functions apps running together with Microsoft Tye
If you frequently work with serverless architectures and expecially with Azure Functions, I think that you know that splitting a … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: set up alerts on job queue failures
Some days ago I was with a partner for checking a Dynamics 365 Business Central project. This project has a … More
Do you have Azure Functions in production? Update your Azure Functions apps to use runtime version 4.x
On December 3, 2022, .NET Core 3.1 will be retired. As a result, Azure Functions runtime versions 2.x and 3.x, … More
Testing Azure Functions or Dynamics 365 Business Central API calls performances with BenchmarkDotNet
In these days, for a big cloud-based project, I had the need to conduct an assessment of the different cloud … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: custom Onedrive integrations
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 (version 20) enhanced the integration with Onedrive for Business, the cloud storage service … More
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