Auto-scaling your Azure SQL database with Logic Apps

I think that you know that I’m a huge fan of using Azure SQL database for your workloads in the … More

Nigel Frank’s new white paper sets blueprint for overcoming business challenges with Microsoft Dynamics technology

We find ourselves in a position where Microsoft cloud technology is in higher demand than ever before, but with uncertainty … More

Sending Azure Alerts to Dynamics 365 Business Central

When working with Dynamics 365 Business Central (but also on Azure applications in general) it’s a best and recommended practice … More

365 Saturday: Business Central Day

For the first time, this Saturday (May, 23) 365 Saturday will host a full day event totally dedicated to Dynamics … More

Read-scale out with Azure SQL and Dynamics 365 Business Central

In the last month I had the chance to test the read-scale out feature of an Azure SQL Database with … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: using Camera in AL

Curious thing… last week a follower asked my if it’s possible to use the Camera with Dynamics 365 Business Central … More

My session at Global Azure Bootcamp 2020: 15 tips to follow when deploying Azure Functions to production

Thanks to all the attendees that followed my session yesterday at Global Azure Bootcamp 2020. We saw 15 tips that … More

Azure SQL Serverless tier: a way to save cost for your workloads in the cloud

When going to the cloud, saving costs while maximizing performances is always a goal to reach but sometimes also not … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and unpublished extensions during an upgrade

In these days I’ve received some messages from partners (and I saw on forums opened questions too) that signal that, … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS: save a file to an SFTP server (the Logic App way)

Yesterday I’ve provided a solution for saving a file generated directly from a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant to … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS: save a file to an SFTP server

In our recently released “Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central” book, in the Azure Function chapter I’ve provided a full example … More

A quick way to deploy your Azure Functions in the cloud

After my last webcast about Azure Functions, I received an interesting question: how can I quickly deploy a function to … More

The new life with an app-based ERP

Some days ago I wrote an article for Simplanova website for summarizing the biggest technical changes that every partner should … More

Using Deployment slots for your Dynamics 365 Business Central Azure Functions

In my session at Ignite Tour Milan in January I’ve talked (with a real demo too) about how to use … More

Executing your .exe tasks on a Cloud environment by using Azure Functions

I think that many of you on your Dynamics NAV or Dynamics 365 Business Central projects have tasks executed by … More

Microsoft Ignite The Tour – Milan

Microsoft Ignite The Tour brings the very best of Microsoft Ignite to a city near you. The tour provides technical training led by Microsoft experts and your … More

Webhooks with Dynamics 365 Business Central

When integrating external applications with Dynamics 365 Business Central, one of the classical way is to use APIs (standard or … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central Sandbox and performance testing

During the last technical workshops done for Microsoft in Finland and Norway, I’ve discovered that many partners are doing (together … More

New book “Migrating applications to the cloud with Azure” finally released

While waiting to officially announce to the Dynamics 365 Business Central community our latest and biggest work ever, I’m happy … More

Exposing Dynamics 365 Business Central data to the outside world: my two cents

I had a discussion in the last days on socials with some of my followers (yes, I have them :D) … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: handling telemetry with Azure Application Insights

Handling telemetry is on of the most important activities that should always be done on a Dynamics 365 Business Central … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: exporting a database backup from a SaaS tenant

Microsoft has recently activated the feature for downloading a backup of a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant. A database … More

Visual Studio Online preview: coding in the browser seems promising.

Today at Ignite 2019 Microsoft has launched the public preview for Visual Studio Online, a managed cloud-based development environment based … More

“Azure Functions for Dynamics 365 Business Central Developers” webcast recording

The recording of my last webcast for Areopa Academy is available on their YouTube channel. Again, sorry for the initial … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Using Azure Traffic Manager to geo-distribute your Azure Functions

Some months ago I’ve written this post describing an interesting solution we’ve deployed for a geo-distributed solution that involves Dynamics … More

Azure SQL Elastic Pools: a way for saving costs with your Microsoft Dynamics ERP databases in the cloud

I’ve written a lot in the past about how you can move your existing on-premise Microsoft Dynamics NAV / Dynamics … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise performances to the max with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale

When you’re start implementing Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise (because you’re not ready for the SaaS now), one of the … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central + Azure Cosmos DB for globally distributed integrations

Today’s post wants to give an overview of a successfully deployed scenario of a geo-distributed integration between Dynamics 365 Business … More

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and multiple cloud sandboxes

The new April 2019 release for Dynamics 365 Business Central introduced lots of new features and one of the most … More

Moving an on-premise Dynamics 365 Business Central database to Azure SQL via Powershell

If I have an on-premise installation of Dynamics 365 Business Central, can I move my database from a local SQL … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and direct printing

This seems to be one of the hottest “problems” when using Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS: actually you cannot directly … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant upgrade: extensions disappeared in Sandbox environment

I saw different tickets and questions related to the title’s topic in the last weeks and I think there’s the … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central End of year 2018 Survey

During this entire year 2018 the Microsoft Dynamics ERP family has changed (and you know that for sure) and Microsoft … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS: upgrades and data migration “things to know”

Despite the Microsoft ERP proposition (on-premise vs SaaS), many customers are still full with doubts on what is the best … More

Enabling Remote Powershell connections to a Dynamics 365 Business Central Azure VM sandbox

When developing with Dynamics 365 Business Central in teams, you could have in-place different sandbox environments for developing or testing … More