One of the main issues on using Azure Application Insights for collecting telemetry from a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant … More
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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
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