Yes… I’m a Microsoft MVP

April, 2 2018. This was a great day for me! After a day spent with my family in our wonderful … More

Serverless processing with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Azure Functions

Deploying Microsoft Dynamics NAV to the Azure cloud (IaaS) is now one of our first proposal on every new customer. … More

NAV Session Event table: cleanup

The Session Event table (ID 2000000111) is a table present in the NAV database starting from NAV 2013. In this … More

NAV on Docker: running it on an Azure Container Instance

A container image is a lightweight, stand-alone, executable package of a piece of software that includes everything needed to run … More

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Q&A

The official Mcrosoft’s announcement of the upcoming release of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (the SaaS ERP proposition based on … More

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central release dates

Save this date: Dynamics 365 Business Central will be generally available on April 2, 2018 in 14 countries (United States, … More

Bye bye “Tenerife”…

And welcome back to the new brand: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Editions seems to be revealed (Essentials and Premium) … More

Ebook: The magic bundle

A quick post for publishing an interesting promo available on Packt website in these days: all eBooks and printed books … More

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Web Client: “hack” to work offline

An interesting question was posted some days ago by a user: how to “hack” the NAV Web Client in order … More

NAV Extensions: using custom DLLs from Azure Functions

I need to give a response to many of you that have asked me many questions regarding the “Microsoft Dynamics … More

Using C# classes on your NAV Powershell tasks

After yesterday’s post about scheduling Microsoft Dynamics NAV tasks in parallel with Powershell, I’ve received an interesting question: If I … More

Running Microsoft Dynamics NAV tasks in parallel with Powershell

As you know, in many scenarios I like to schedule NAV tasks by using Powershell instead of using the standard … More

NAV: Handling Record Links efficiently

This post comes from a request I’ve received today regarding a problem on opening an attachment to a Purchase Order … More

Azure SQL and Information Protection (GDPR)

I’m talking a lot on this blog about Azure SQL and its usage as a PaaS database engine for many … More

AL (at least half of its heart) will love .NET

In one of my recent posts, I’ve talked about one of the main difficulties that many partners around the world … More

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Extensions and the add-in pains

In these days I was in contact with many partners trying to migrate their NAV solutions to the new Extensions … More

Microsoft Dynamics NAV on Azure SQL: performance tuning

In the previous days, we’ve discussed a serie of benefits of using Azure SQL Database with NAV if you’re planning … More

Deploying NAV to the cloud: Azure VM costs

In one of my recent posts, we’ve seen how very cost-effective could be implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV on Azure. Regarding … More

An alternative Job Scheduler for NAV

As all of you (NAV developers) already knows, Microsoft Dynamics NAV has a built-in job scheduler (Job Queue) useful if … More

New book: Implementing Azure Cloud Design Patterns

I’ve spent few words some weeks ago for previewing these, but now it’s the time for an official announcement. I’m … More

Microsoft Dynamics NAV vs SAP again (reposted)

I repost here an article that comes from my old blog because there are customers that asks me something about … More

Serialize NAV objects as JSON

Today in a forum someone asks this question: can I serialize a Microsoft Dynamics NAV object (record in a table) … More

Azure SQL needs more consideration with NAV

When deploying a solution architecture with Microsoft Dynamics NAV as the ERP of your choice, you already know that the … More

NAV: DotNet types and Extensions V2

I’m seeing in these days that many NAV partners are starting “tests” in order to move some of their Microsoft … More

NAV 2016: a little web client feature to have everywhere…

With NAV 2016, Microsoft has improved a lot the Web Client, starting from the startup time (now very fast!) to … More

The SQL Authentication return with NAV 2016.

As you know, in previous NAV versions (3-tier) you can access the system by using 4 different authentication types: Windows … More

An idea/suggestion: NAV Windows Client via Azure RemoteApp

This is an idea that’s rolling on my mind from a lot of time… Why Microsoft not provides a deploy … More

NAV 2016 and TryFunctions: epic fail?

When I was at Directions EMEA some weeks ago and for the first time I saw a brief explanation on … More

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 201X: my desiderata…

NAV 2016 was launched 5 days ago and it’s really an exciting release. Microsoft has lots and lots of plans … More

NAV 2016 is here…

Just few words directly from Germany to announce you that from today Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 is available for production. … More