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

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

Using custom C# code when creating Custom Connectors for Power Platform or Logic Apps

If you’re doing integrationw between Dynamics 365 Business Central or other applications and the Power Platform, I think that sometimes … 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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: delegated admins and AAD guests users

When working with your Dynamics 365 Business Central online customers, one of the first thing you should do as a … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dataverse integration: it’s time to upgrade your connections

One of the coolest feature in Dynamics 365 Business Central is surely the Dataverse integration, a foundamental building block for … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Data Administration

Related to the new storage policy post I’ve written some days ago, someone of you have asked if it’s possible … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: start thinking on storing Blobs outside of the database

July 1, 2021 is tomorrow and, as previously announced by Microsoft, the new Dynamics 365 Business Central database capacity changes … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: how to create an online sandbox based on W1

I’m receiving a lot of time the same question: “how can I create an online sandbox with W1 version?” so … 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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: automatically update library apps when updating your main app

Yesterday I had a chat with a Partner that was stuck with a problem on some SaaS tenants. Problem can … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and .NET add-ins (part 2): why .NET Standard?

As a follow-up to this post, I’ve received some questions related to why we talked about .NET Standard if the … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and .NET Framework add-ins: it’s time to change

With Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 1 Microsoft is continuously moving the server to .NET Standard and if you’re … 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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: native support for barcodes

When working with an ERP, using barcodes on different reports is a common practice and I think that every ERP … 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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the reportextension object

One of the noisy limitations on Dynamics 365 Business Central until version 17.X was the impossibility to extend standard reports. … 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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: per-tenant extensions and conflicts with standard Microsoft’s fields

Some weeks ago I received two emails from contacts where they submitted me two interesting “bad problems” that blocked them … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: are your AppSource apps ready for 2021 Wave 1 release?

As I think you already know, with Dynamics 365 Business Central 2019 release wave 2 (version 15) Microsoft has marked … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: SOAP and Basic Authentication deprecation

If you’re using web services with Dynamics 365 Business Central version, from version 17.X you should always check the notifications … 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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: point in time restore of a Production environment

Yesterday Microsoft has officially released one of the most requested feature for the Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS environment: point … 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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Batch API calls and max number of operations

The standard (and for what I can see most used) way of using Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs is by … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: the impact of tableextensions

I think that everyone of you already knows that when working with Dynamics 365 Business Central, table extensions are killers … More