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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: changing the way of sending tenant-level notifications

For some years now, Microsoft have communicated Dynamics 365 Business Central service health status and service incidents through the Microsoft … 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

Microsoft Reactor: Proactive monitoring of your Azure cloud applications

Are you interested on efficiently monitoring your Azure cloud workloads? Are you curious about all the monitoring possibilities (and more) … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: clarification about OAuth2 authentication in v20

In a recent event we had with the partners community on the new Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the in-client Performance Profiler

With the upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 release (version 20), Microsoft has enhanced the AL performance profiler … More

Azure tenant’s telemetry at your fingertips

Monitoring is an essential task for handling a cloud tenant at best. Azure has built-in features for monitoring a tenant, … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 loves Power Automate

Are you a Power Automate user? Are you using workflows to Automate your tasks in Dynamics 365 Business Central? If … More

Querying telemetries from multiple Application Insights instances

During the last week’s Microsoft WE Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry webcast (day 2 of a 3 part serie) I … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Start using Partner Sandbox Environments

At last Directions EMEA 2021 in Milan, Microsoft announced the future availability of Partner Sandbox Environments for Dynamics 365 Business … More

Secure life in a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant

Dynamics 365 Business Central has moved the ERP (core part of every corporate business) to the cloud and this was … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and Granular Delegated Admins Privileges (GDAP)

In January 2022 Microsoft has released a preview of Granular Delegated Admin Privileges (GDAP) for Microsoft 365 workloads. Delegated Admins … More

Azure AD app registration secrets: a quick script to check who expires soon

When setting Azure AD app registration for using OAUTH 2 authentication, you need to create a client secret: A client … More

Create a link to an Application Insights query programmatically

In our telemetry session at Directions EMEA in Milan we have presented how you can directly use Dynamics 365 Business … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: AppSource submission of library apps used by different extensions

Exactly about one year ago I’ve talked about the possibility to create Library Apps and submit them on AppSource. The … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central workflows: Power Automate or Logic Apps?

Serverless workflows are in my opinion an important piece of the architecture of a cloud-based ERP solution (and this is … More

Cloud workflows: is the low-code approach always a good solution?

Last week I wrote a post providing a solution for interacting with files saved in an FTP server directly from … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: handling files via FTP on SaaS

I’ve written lot of time ago a post on how to save a file from Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and availability tests

Dynamics 365 Business Central is an absolutely reliable SaaS service that runs on the Azure platform. It’s a cloud service … More

Monitoring Power Apps with Azure Application Insights

As a follow up to this post (and for completely answering here questions from Directions EMEA about this topic) here … More

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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: changing the way of throwing Errors

After the “What’s New” webcast I’ve done two days ago, I’ve received questions on some new features introduced with Dynamics … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Trusted Apps list management

Starting from today, Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2 (version 19) is available and all new customers will automatically … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the AL profiler

With the Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2 release (version 19), silently a new hidden feature was introduced: the … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: cleaning sensitive configurations when copying production to sandbox

When working with Dynamics 365 Business Central on real projects, I think that it’s quite common to have the need … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing resource exposure policies for extension’s code

I think that everyone of you knows that with Dynamics 365 Business Central extensions your code is by default protected … More