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

Using Azure API Management to host your Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs

Some days ago there was a discussion on Twitter started by Waldo about how to document custom Dynamics 365 Business … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: SetLoadFields performances with reference passing or value passing parameters

I’ve written in the past some posts with tips on how to write code for performances and how to be … More

Exporting Application Insights logs with Continuous Export or Diagnostic Settings

I’m continuously emphasizing that for monitoring cloud applications (like Dynamics 365 Business Central) and cloud services, using Azure Application Insights … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: automatically update library apps when updating your main app

Yesterday I had a chat with a Partner that was stuck with a problem on some SaaS tenants. Problem can … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: creating a DGML dependency graph for your extensions

Have you ever had the need or the requirement to create a graphical diagram of the building blocks of your … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: thecontextSensitiveHelpUrl parameter and malicious urls

This is a very quick post for signaling a potential problem when you distribute your apps (per-tenant extensions) to your … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and .NET add-ins (part 2): why .NET Standard?

As a follow-up to this post, I’ve received some questions related to why we talked about .NET Standard if the … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and .NET Framework add-ins: it’s time to change

With Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 1 Microsoft is continuously moving the server to .NET Standard and if you’re … More