Dynamics 365 Business Central: scheduling job queue tasks via API

The Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 version 21.2 update silently introduces a long requested feature: the possibility to … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and AL language: it’s the time to give us namespaces!

Naming objects is one of the hardest problems in software development. In programming, a namespace is a technique used to … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: DataTransfer on upgrades and performances

At the beginning of September 2022 I wrote this post introducing the new DataTransfer data type (available from Business Central … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry: Grafana dashboard template

PREFACE: Microsoft has created two wonderful Power BI apps for analyzing Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry: and these (together with … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: new option to enable/disable the “save as you type” feature.

The “save as you type” feature in Dynamics 365 Business Central is like a black cloud over your head… if … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: new AL language hidden features

The new AL Language version 10.1 (released in these days) adds some small (but interesting) new features that I think … More

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

Dynamics 365 Business Central and Power Automate connector: be aware of this strange issue

When working with Dynamics 365 Business Central and Power Automate, somethimes (fortunately not too often) the Business Central connector can … 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

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2: the evil of the new field changes behaviour – THE HAPPY ENDING

I think that everyone of you reading this post remember yesterday’s post about the new “Save as you type” feature … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2: the evil of the new field changes behaviour

In the year 2001 after my Master Degree in Computer Engineering I joined a new team inside my company of … 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

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2: UI changes in the action bar

Two days ago in the Business Central event I’ve done with Microsoft Italy, someone with good eyes noted some small … 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

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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: breaking change when adding a return value to a procedure

I’ve received a request from a partner asking why adding a return value to a procedure in a Dynamics 365 … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2: introducing the new DataTransfer data type

I’ve talked some days ago about some UI improvements in the Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 release (version … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2: changing the way of promoting actions

The upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 release (alias version 21) will introduce some improvements on the user … 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: quick reminder for some upcoming changes

October will be the month where Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Release Wave 2 (version 21) will be publicly available. … 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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: report extensions and global variables in preview mode

Today I received a call from a partner that was going crazy on a problem during the preview of some … 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

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 release: what’s boiling in the pot

Today Microsoft has publicly released the planned list of enhancements for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 release (from … 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