Stefano Demy

Yesterday Microsoft has officially released one of the most requested feature for the Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS environment: point in time restore for environments . If you access your tenant’s Admin Center and select an environment, now…

I’m happy to announce that our book, “Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure: Re-architect and rebuild your applications using cloud-native technologies”, made it to BookAuthority’s Best Microsoft Azure Books of All Time . As featured on…

The standard (and for what I can see most used) way of using Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs is by sending an HTTP request to the API endpoint for the selected entity one request at a time: But if you need to perform massive operations …

I think that everyone of you already knows that when working with Dynamics 365 Business Central, table extensions are killers for performances. But how much? That’s a question that I’ve also done to myself a lot of time when working with partners…

Telemetry, telemetry, telemetry… this is an hot topic in your developer’s and admin’s life in the cloud. We have talked a lot about using Application Insights for handling the telemetry data of your Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant running in the…

Do you remember this slide? This was (and is) one of my most shared slides ever (from me, from third-party partners and also from Microsoft’s PTS team). This explained common problems on using per-tenant extensions on a SaaS environment: Now…

In a demo at the Microsoft’s Reactor event in October I talked about the performance advantages on moving Azure Functions from Consumption to Premium plans when needed on certain scenarios. When you create a function app in Azure, you must choose…

Today I was helping a partner on discovering performance issues on its Dynamics 365 Business Central online tenant. When analyzing the telemetry data with Application Insights, we discovered a lot of Long Running Query signals (event id RT0005) linked…

Starting from Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2 (v17) administrators can define retention policies for tables to specify how frequently they want Business Central to delete outdated data in tables that contain log entries and archived records…

Talking in these days with some partners, I discovered that it’s not so clear how to handle the possibility to install apps on a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant. Who can do that? The answer is: it depends As a general rule: To install…

One of the top requested features for Dynamics 365 Business Central from a long time is absolutely one: debugging the production environment ! And now you can Dynamics 365 Business Central version 17 introduces a feature called Snapshot Debugging…

When working with extensions in Dynamics 365 Business Central, you’ve always to keep in mind that you’re now in a complex ecosystem where you’re not alone and someone can breakes things. One of the sneaky problem you can have with different extensions…

When developing extensions for AppSource, every partner has its own licensing model. There are extensions that are free, others that are billed by users, others that have a fixed price for each month or year of usage and so on. Everyone can have its…

This is a question that I’ve received many times and also this morning I had a discussion with a partner about that (and that’s the reason for this quick post). Using Azure Application Insights for monitoring your Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS…

In the training I’ve done to some partners last week, when talking about performances I shared an example of an extension with 3 features that I think are not so well known but that have a significant impact on how your code performs, expecially on a…

Azure Key Vault is a cloud service for securely storing and accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as license keys, credentials, API keys, certificates and so on. Starting form Dynamics 365 Business…

Do you remember this post I wrote lots of time ago? This post described the new Microsoft’s Application app introduced with Dynamics 365 Business Central version 15.3. This app encapsulates all the dependencies from the System Application and Base…

I’m very happy and proud to announce the hard work I’ve done during the quarantine together with two great MVPs like Sjoukje Zaal and Amit Malik… thanks guys for joining the project The book will be delivered starting from late October, but you…

Handling a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant in a cloud environment is not exactly like handling it on an on-premise installation. A SaaS tenant is fully managed by Microsoft under the hood, so you don’t care about infrastructure and all the…

This is a very quick post just to help on clearing doubts related on a new flag that Microsoft has introduced on the Extension Management page in Dynamics 365 Business Central starting from the 16.5 update (but announced for general availability for…

Microsoft Teams is becoming always more a central point for the everyday’s work on many of us now and often having Bots on a Teams channel that can solve our queries could be helpful. Teams bots are “automations” that allows you to interact with…

I’ve written a lot in the past about using Azure Application Insights for monitoring a Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant (you can read here and here ) and the team is actively working on improving the telemetry features by adding always more and more…

I saw on different forums people having troubles on connecting to their brand new Docker containers created with the new BcContainerHelper module by using the sandbox artifacts (image of the online sandbox). The new module for creating Docker containers…

I think that many of you that creates integrations with external services could have the pleasure to know the HTTP 429 error: too many requests . The HTTP 429 - Too Many Requests response status code indicates the user has sent too many requests…

Earlier this year, I was pleased to be asked to contribute my thoughts on the current ERP landscape for the twelfth annual edition of Nigel Frank’s Microsoft Dynamics Salary Survey . The most comprehensive study of its kind in the global Dynamics…