Introducing YAMPI: the MCP server for Dynamics 365 Business Central administration.

At the end of November 2024 Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard and open-source framework created with the goal to standardize … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the new MaskedType enum field-level property.

In Dynamics 365 Business Central UI pages that contains sensitive informations, sometimes a common requirement coming from customers or auditors … More

Azure Logic Apps: Built-in vs Managed Azure Blob Storage Connector.

When creating workflows with Azure Logic Apps that uses the Azure Blob Storage Connector, you have the possibility to select … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: using a static IP address to access APIs.

Sometimes in Dynamics 365 Business Central projects you can have very strict security requirements for integrations with third-party systems. One … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: using secrets in JsonObjects.

When working on integrations with external APIs or external services in general, sometimes you need to insert credentials or secrets … More

Do you have strict security requirements for your workflows? Azure Logic Apps is the solution.

Low-code workflows for integrations between systems are a quite common scenario in many projects, from small to enterprise companies. And … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Change Log Management event changes.

I think that everyone of you know that Dynamics 365 Business Central has a built-in Change Log functionality that permits … More

Restrict Azure Logic Apps’s workflows access only to Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Some week ago I wrote an article explaining how you can restrict Azure Logic Apps workflows access to certain IP … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: HttpClient and remote certificate validation future changes.

I think that everyone of you know that the AL HttpClient data type provides a data type for sending HTTP … More

Azure Logic Apps workflows: restrict access by IP ranges.

Azure Logic Apps is a great technology to use when integrating Dynamics 365 Business Central with external systems. It permits … More

Prevent prompt injections in your Azure OpenAI and Copilots implementations.

If any of you have ever developed Windows or Web applications connected to a SQL database in C# or other … More

Audit Dynamics 365 Business Central operations in Microsoft Purview: what is it?

Some days ago Microsoft announced the upcoming new features for the new products wave and also Dynamics 365 Business Central … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Isolated Storage and SecretText support.

With Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (version 23) Microsoft introduced a new data type called SecretText. This new … More

Azure Logic Apps: securing HTTP Triggers with Microsoft Entra ID authentication

Lots of time ago I wrote a post about securing the HTTP triggered workflows created with Power Automate. You can … More

Collect Microsoft Graph Activity Logs in Azure Monitor

Few days ago Microsoft announced the public preview of a very interesting feature: Microsoft Graph Activity Logs in Azure Monitor. … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: the Dynamics 365 Business Central Administrator role for granular administration

One of the planned feature for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (v23) is an interesting change on … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: remember to check the M365 Service Health Dashboard

In May 2022 I wrote this post explaining the upcoming changes on the way Microsoft will start sending notifications about … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central connector and Managed Identity with Azure Logic Apps.

I’ve received two time the same request from partners this week about the same topic, so probably this is something … More

Power Automate: changes in the HTTP Connector

Have you ever used the HTTP connector with Power Automate? I think the naswer is YES because it’s (at least … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the new SecretText data type.

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (version 23) and the new AL language version 12 introdocues a new … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetry with Azure Managed Grafana: Private Access Setup

Probably many of you knows that for creating control dashboards for some Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenants of for … More

Power Apps and secure implicit connections

When working with data connections in Power Apps, you can have “implicitly” or “explicitly” shared connections to external resources. An explicitly … More

Microsoft Azure Active Directory is becoming Microsoft Entra ID

About a year ago Microsoft announced the Microsoft Entra product family From its introduction, Microsoft Entra included three products: Microsoft Azure … More

Using IP Firewall rules in Dataverse to allow only Dynamics 365 Business Central and your local network traffic

Microsoft has publicly announced in these days that the Global rollout of the public preview for the Dataverse IP Firewall … More

Azure Blob Storage and immutability support for blobs

Azure Blob Storage is one of the common cloud-based storage for different types of application, included business applications like Dynamics … More

Azure Service Tags and Dynamics 365 Business Central

Yesterday I’ve done a webcast detailing all the new features available in Dynamics 365 Business Central and I’ve also mentioned … More

Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics NAV on-premises Security Vulnerability CVE-2022-41127: how to fix

On December 13, 2022 Microsoft disclosed a security vulnerability (coded CVE-2022-41127) that affects the on-premises versions of Dynamics 365 Business … More

Are you using proxies with Azure Functions? Start moving to Azure API Management.

When working with lots of Azure Functions apps or in microservices architectures with a moderate workload, it’s quite common to … More

Some tips to improve security of your Azure Blob Storage (expecially with Dynamics 365 Business Central)

In these days I’m happy to see that after my latest Azure training in Microsoft Italy (3 weeks ago) many … 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

Securing your HTTP triggered flow in Power Automate: suppress workflow headers in response

The “When an HTTP request is received” trigger is one of my favourite building blocks for creating serverless processes with … 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: clarification about OAuth2 authentication in v20

In a recent event we had with the partners community on the new Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1 … More

Secure life in a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant

Dynamics 365 Business Central has moved the ERP (core part of every corporate business) to the cloud and this was … More