When working with Dynamics 365 Business Central (but also on Azure applications in general) it’s a best and recommended practice to send telemetry data to the Azure Application Insights service for centralize monitoring. I’ve talked about that in the past here . Have you ever received the request to monitor some Azure Resources directly from inside Dynamics 365 Business Central and be able to collect metrics from Azure for statistical purposes inside your ERP? Yes, I have also this request on my “strange ideas” collection and this post describes a possible solution for this absolutely uncommon…

For the first time, this Saturday (May, 23) 365 Saturday will host a full day event totally dedicated to Dynamics 365 Business Central . The agenda below will take place according to GMT 0 Timezone respectively: 8:00 – Track Inventory with Item Tracking – Bandam Sairam 9:00 – Handling your Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant – Stefano Demiliani 10:00 – Business Central Flash Methodology – Paul Soliman 11:00 – Accountant’s Hub for Business Central – Olister Rumao 12:00 – Document Automation for Business Central – Fabian Huber 13:00 – Using the right D365BC setup to support different…

In the last month I had the chance to test the read-scale out feature of an Azure SQL Database with Dynamics 365 Business Central. Others have talked about this opportunity in the past and I want to share here my experience. The Read Scale-Out feature permits you to have a read-only replica of your Azure SQL database and use that replica to perform read-only queries instead of using the main instance and so without affecting its performance. This feature is enabled by default on Premium , Business Critical and Hyperscale service tiers. Read Scale-Out cannot be enabled in Basic , Standard…

Yesterday I was talking with a partner that developed an extension with a quite complex logic declared in a codeunit with visibility = Internal (so the object can be accessed only by code in the same module, but not from another module). Now they have created a new extension (dependent from the previous) and they would like to reuse the business logic declared on the main extension in this new app. They have changed the access level of the codeunit in the main app but doing this they had immediately a blocking problem: they don’t want to expose all their methods to the external world! How…