Business Central Universal Code initiative: are you really so surprised?

Yesterday Microsoft has officially presented the Business Central Universal Code initiative ( http://aka.ms/BCUniversalcode). For more details about this initiative, I suggest … 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, Service-to-Service authentication (OAuth) and Task Scheduler

Just before Christmas I received a request from a partner about a feature that personally I never had the need … 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: are you doing cloud data migration? Please sanitize your database before doing it.

I’ve decided to write this quick post after having spent some hours on supporting a partner in order to discover … 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 PropagateDependencies

More than one year ago (March 2020) I wrote a post explaining a new propagateDependencies app property introduced with version … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: PTE + SyncMode problem and troubleshooting

I think that you know that Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2 (version 19) introduced the possibility to do … 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

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 APIs and Data Access Intent

One of the greatest advantages on using Dynamics 365 Business Central on a SaaS environment is certainly the availability of … 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 and Excel Organization data types

About one year ago, Microsoft has announced the preview of the so called “Organization data types” for Excel and Power … 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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: new indexing features on 2021 Wave 2 release

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2 release (version 19) introduces some new indexing features that you can use on … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing resource exposure policies for extension’s code

I think that everyone of you knows that with Dynamics 365 Business Central extensions your code is by default protected … More

Public Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2 environments are here…

Starting from today, you can create new Dynamics 365 Business Central environments based on the 2021 Wave 2 release (version … More

Azure AD authentication for Application Insights: how to use it and the impact on Business Central telemetry

Microsoft has recently announced the public preview of a new capability for Azure Application Insights: the support for Azure Active … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Sandbox vs Onprem Docker containers

I saw this question popping up frequently on different forums also recently: what are the main differences when creating a … More

Using custom C# code when creating Custom Connectors for Power Platform or Logic Apps

If you’re doing integrationw between Dynamics 365 Business Central or other applications and the Power Platform, I think that sometimes … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise and SQL on Azure VM: reducing storage costs

If you search on my blog, I’we written in the past a lot of articles with suggestions and best practices … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: delegated admins and AAD guests users

When working with your Dynamics 365 Business Central online customers, one of the first thing you should do as a … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2 (version 19): what to expect

Today Microsoft has officially shared the 2021 Wave 2 Release plans for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Here are the … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dataverse integration: it’s time to upgrade your connections

One of the coolest feature in Dynamics 365 Business Central is surely the Dataverse integration, a foundamental building block for … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: save report dataset to Excel

Dynamics 365 Business Central version 18.3 introduces a new interesting feature for report developers or consultants: the ability to export … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Data Administration

Related to the new storage policy post I’ve written some days ago, someone of you have asked if it’s possible … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: start thinking on storing Blobs outside of the database

July 1, 2021 is tomorrow and, as previously announced by Microsoft, the new Dynamics 365 Business Central database capacity changes … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: how to create an online sandbox based on W1

I’m receiving a lot of time the same question: “how can I create an online sandbox with W1 version?” so … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs Load Testing with JMeter

Yesterday I saw a Twitter thread asking for suggestions about tools for load testing APIs. There are lots of tools … More