In the last months I worked on some cloud-based applications that use Azure SQL as backend (details not relevant here) … More
Tag: Cloud
Me @ Directions EMEA 2024
Also this year Directions EMEA conference is approaching and next week all the EMEA’s Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central partner’s … More
Azure Logic Apps Standard: worflow’s run retention history configuration.
When you create an Azure Logic Apps Standard workflow for your integrations (maybe with your Dynamics 365 Business Central ERP, … More
Restrict Azure Logic Apps’s workflows access only to Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Some week ago I wrote an article explaining how you can restrict Azure Logic Apps workflows access to certain IP … More
Returning to WPC Conference
It was the year 2002, Microsoft was launching a mysterious and promising platform called .NET and in that year I … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: triggering an Azure DevOps pipeline when a tenant upgrade occurs.
Last week I had a quick message exchangement with a partner asking how to automatically trigger an Azure DevOps pipeline … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: HttpClient and remote certificate validation future changes.
I think that everyone of you know that the AL HttpClient data type provides a data type for sending HTTP … More
Azure Logic Apps workflows: restrict access by IP ranges.
Azure Logic Apps is a great technology to use when integrating Dynamics 365 Business Central with external systems. It permits … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2: new Search in List pages (but don’t abuse of it)
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 release (version 25) introduces a new search capability for list pages. Now users … More
Running inline C# scripts in Azure Logic Apps workflows
Last week I wrote a post explaining the new Inline Powershell action available in Azure Logic Apps standard. With this … More
Running Powershell scripts in Azure Logic Apps workflows.
Few days ago the Azure Logic Apps team publicly released the preview of the inline PowerShell action, that permits you … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Cloud Migration secrets and tips.
I think that everyone of you know that you can quite easily migrate from Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises to … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central update 24.4: small changes in Job Queue.
Dynamics 365 Business Central version 24.4 (August cumulative update) was released few minutes ago and you can start downloading it … More
Do you have again Classic Azure Storage Accounts? These are the last days for migrate and avoid service disruptions.
On 31 August 2024, Microsoft will retire the Cloud Services (classic) deployment model (the announcement was made by Microsoft in March 2022). Before that date, you’ll need … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central v25: what’s coming for developers.
Microsoft has publicly announced today the plans for the 2024 Wave 2 release of their Dynamics 365 and Power Platform … More
Prevent prompt injections in your Azure OpenAI and Copilots implementations.
If any of you have ever developed Windows or Web applications connected to a SQL database in C# or other … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: linked Power Platform environment
In the last days, a new Linked Power Platform Environment option is appeared in the Administration Center of your Dynamics … More
Azure Managed Grafana for Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry? It’s time to upgrade.
About two years ago at Directions EMEA 2022 I did a demo on exposing Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry with … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: why not reviewing the SaaS storage cost policy?
In these days I had a talk with some partners asking me some guidelines and suggestions on how trying to … More
Semantic Search and Vectors support on Dynamics 365 Business Central: this is the right moment.
Some weeks ago we had a nice interview with two amazing US guys (Brad Prendergast and Kristoffer Ruyeras aka Kris … More
Are you ready for the most mystical conference of the year?
3 days until DynamicsMinds 2024 in Portoroz (Slovenia) starts, a 4 days community conference covering Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: monitoring field changes with telemetry is better…
In a traditional Dynamics 365 Business Central project, expecially when the customer is a large company, it’s quite often requested … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: clarifications on changing the identity of an app.
When talking with some partners trying to approach the AppSource marketplace during the last week, I’ve discovered that for many … More
Azure Functions: .NET 7 support is ending and you should upgrade to .NET 8.
On 14 May 2024, support for .NET 7 in Azure Functions will end. Your Function apps that are currently using .NET … More
Handling company’s carbon footprint with Business Central and Azure
Corporate environmental responsibility has become a cornerstone of modern business strategy. Companies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their commitment … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: receive notifications when AppSource apps updates are available in a tenant
When you install AppSource apps in a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant, app updates are automatically handled by Microsoft during … More
The 2nd edition of “Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central” is here…
More than one year of work, many updates and reviews, lots of energies spent. But now I’m proud to announce … More
Azure Spring Clean: Deploying Azure OpenAI in the enterprise world.
This post is my contribution to the Azure Spring Clean 2024 event, an initiative to promote well managed Azure tenants. … More
How we (probably) broke limits at the #BCAIHackathon
Last week Microsoft organized the #BCAIHackathon initiative, a 3 days dedicated to create innovative solutions using generative AI in Dynamics … More
REST APIs and the importance of Versioning.
A REST API (also known as RESTful API) is an application programming interface that conforms to the constraints of REST architecture and it’s … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: transfer environments between Microsoft Entra tenants
Starting from today, it’s possible to transfer a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant to a different tenant without opening … More
Audit Dynamics 365 Business Central operations in Microsoft Purview: what is it?
Some days ago Microsoft announced the upcoming new features for the new products wave and also Dynamics 365 Business Central … More
List all Azure Functions with older runtime with Powershell
When you create an Azure Function app, the runtime is responsible for executing function code on the underlying WebJobs SDK … More
Azure Basic Load Balancer: it’s time to plan the update to Standard.
Azure Load Balancer is a high-performance, ultra-low-latency Layer 4 load-balancing service (inbound and outbound) for all UDP and TCP protocols. It’s … More
Monitoring your Azure OpenAI usage (part 2)
In a previous post I wrote about how you can monitor your Azure OpenAI usage with Azure Monitor and Application … More
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