Programmatically monitoring your Power Automate Flows

In my workflow session at Directions EMEA, we talked about how to overcome the limitations of Power Automate for creating … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: overriding the extension’s resource policy for a particular tenant

Last week at Directions EMEA I had the pleasure to meet and talk with many of you in person and … More

Me @ Directions EMEA

Next week it’s finally the Directions EMEA week and the conference this year will be in Italy in the great … More

Azure AD authentication for Application Insights: how to use it and the impact on Business Central telemetry

Microsoft has recently announced the public preview of a new capability for Azure Application Insights: the support for Azure Active … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise and SQL on Azure VM: reducing storage costs

If you search on my blog, I’we written in the past a lot of articles with suggestions and best practices … More

Using Azure API Management to host your Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs

Some days ago there was a discussion on Twitter started by Waldo about how to document custom Dynamics 365 Business … More

Why you should start considering Azure Batch for some of your Dynamics 365 Business Central cloud workloads

At the Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 1 Launch event, in his wonderful session about the Administration Center, Dmitry … More

Deleting Application Insights telemetry data on-demand with Powershell

I think that everyone of you knows that telemetry is an important aspect to take into consideration when working with … More

Microsoft Universal Print is finally ready (yes, also for Dynamics 365 Business Central)

Today at the first day of Ignite, Microsoft has finally announced that Universal Print is finally available for everyone. Universal … More

Securing your Azure SQL Database with a private endpoint

Some days ago I discussed with some partners the architecture of a possible datawarehouse system for external BI analysis connected … More

Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure made it to the Best Microsoft Azure Books of All Time

I’m happy to announce that our book, “Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure: Re-architect and rebuild your applications using … More

Moving Azure Functions from Consumption to Premium plans

In a demo at the Microsoft’s Reactor event in October I talked about the performance advantages on moving Azure Functions … More

How much my Application Insights service costs?

This is a question that I’ve received many times and also this morning I had a discussion with a partner … More

“Azure DevOps Explained” book announcement

I’m very happy and proud to announce the hard work I’ve done during the quarantine together with two great MVPs … More

Creating lightweight Teams bots with outgoing webhooks and Azure Functions

Microsoft Teams is becoming always more a central point for the everyday’s work on many of us now and often … More

Handling the “HTTP 429 – Too Many Requests” error when calling external services

I think that many of you that creates integrations with external services could have the pleasure to know the HTTP … More

Creating a local drive mapped with an Azure File Share for your files in the cloud

File Management in the cloud is always an hot topic when using SaaS services like Dynamics 365 Business Central. A … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: exploring page views with Azure Application Insights

I think that you already know that I’m a huge fan of using Azure Application Insights for collecting telemetry for … More

Using Azure Logic Apps for creating a Dynamics 365 Business Central container on Azure Container Instances

A week ago I’ve written a post explaining how to create a Dynamics 365 Business Central Docker container on Azure … More

Creating a Dynamics 365 Business Central Docker container with artifacts on Azure Container Instances

Azure Container Instances (ACI) is a great service offered by Azure that permits you to run serverless Docker containers in … More

Securing your HTTP triggered flow in Power Automate

This is a quick post for giving a response to a question that comes out in our latest Microsoft’s webcast … More

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 4-steps webcasts ended today

Today was the last stage for this serie of 4 Microsoft’s webcasts related to Dynamics 365 Business Central integrations and … More

Auto-scaling your Azure SQL database with Logic Apps

I think that you know that I’m a huge fan of using Azure SQL database for your workloads in the … More

Nigel Frank’s new white paper sets blueprint for overcoming business challenges with Microsoft Dynamics technology

We find ourselves in a position where Microsoft cloud technology is in higher demand than ever before, but with uncertainty … More

Sending Azure Alerts to Dynamics 365 Business Central

When working with Dynamics 365 Business Central (but also on Azure applications in general) it’s a best and recommended practice … More

Azure DevOps and cross-repo branch policies

In the webcast we had this Monday for Microsoft Western Europe about using Azure DevOps for managing Dynamics 365 Business … More

My session at Global Azure Bootcamp 2020: 15 tips to follow when deploying Azure Functions to production

Thanks to all the attendees that followed my session yesterday at Global Azure Bootcamp 2020. We saw 15 tips that … More

Azure SQL Serverless tier: a way to save cost for your workloads in the cloud

When going to the cloud, saving costs while maximizing performances is always a goal to reach but sometimes also not … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS: save a file to an SFTP server (the Logic App way)

Yesterday I’ve provided a solution for saving a file generated directly from a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant to … More

A quick way to deploy your Azure Functions in the cloud

After my last webcast about Azure Functions, I received an interesting question: how can I quickly deploy a function to … More

Using Deployment slots for your Dynamics 365 Business Central Azure Functions

In my session at Ignite Tour Milan in January I’ve talked (with a real demo too) about how to use … 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

Microsoft Ignite The Tour – Milan

Microsoft Ignite The Tour brings the very best of Microsoft Ignite to a city near you. The tour provides technical training led by Microsoft experts and your … More

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 … More

“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 … More