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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: the hidden EnableMalwareScanning feature

Security is on top of the Microsoft’s investments on every product and it should be on top of your deployment … More

Securing your HTTP triggered flow in Power Automate: suppress workflow headers in response

The “When an HTTP request is received” trigger is one of my favourite building blocks for creating serverless processes with … 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

Global Dynamics 365 Business Central Bootcamp 2022

We are excited to announce that the Global Business Central Bootcamp 2022 will take place on 22nd & 23rd September … 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

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