A query object in AL object type built for one job: reading data. You describe a result set by declaring one or more tables as data items, nesting them to express joins, and choosing the columns yo…

Copilot and agent capabilities in Dynamics 365 Business Central are available wherever Business Central Online is available, while Azure OpenAI Service is not. That gap is what “data movement…

If you’ve ever used Dynamics 365 Business Central IsolatedStorage object to store module-scoped settings or secret keys in AL, maybe you’ve probably run into a subtle race condition: tw…

All the italian partners and customers are waiting (from quite a long time now) to have Dynamics 365 Business Central deployed on Italy North datacenters. This wil be a great benefit for Italian or…

With version 11 of the Dynamics 365 Business Central runtime, Microsoft introduced the Record.ReadIsolation method to control isolation level on database transactions. The isolation level on a tran…

Some week ago, I received a strange request from auditors: can you track every file touched (read/write) by your AI coding agents? We should have a clear auditing log of every file a coding agent s…

If you’ve spent time in the BC base app, you’ve probably discovered that there’s a codeunit object (ID = 490) called Parallel Session Management and in very short words it’s…

It was February 2024 (time flies🥴) when Microsoft did a 3-day #BCAIHackathon initiative and me with Dmitry and Jeremy launched a native semantic search implementation in Business Central. You can r…

I’ve discovered that few people know some useful hidden things around GitHub Copilot and this is the main reason of this quick post. Every time you start a session, GitHub Copilot builds unde…

Microsoft now provides a way to have the AL tools available on every CLI-based agentic tool using a standalone process over the MCP protocol using AL MCP server. The AL MCP Server is a standalone M…

If you were one of the attendees of my session at BC TechDays 2026, probably now you know that Azure Logic Apps Standard now supports a powerful Agent Loop capability, enabling you to build both co…

Some weeks ago I wrote on LinkedIn a short post explaining that Microsoft was slowly moving the default AI models associated to Dynamics 365 Business Central Agents (and Managed AI service) to GPT-…

#GitHub yesterday was affected by a breach caused by a malicious actor that embedded a malware in a VS Code extension. How can you control that in your organization? Be careful with Visual Studio C…

As we announced some days ago at #BCDAYIT, Dynamics 365 Business Central update 28.1 will allow you to deploy your own Business Central agents to production environments. But there’s a bit mo…

Everyone is talking about building AI applications. Pick an LLM, send it a prompt, get a response. Ship it. Iterate. Move fast and break things. This works wonderfully for hackathons, demos and wee…

The way we build AI-powered applications is evolving fast. Azure OpenAI has long been a cornerstone for enterprise AI development, and its Chat Completions API has been the workhorse behind countle…

Microsoft announced yesterday the general availability of the new smart tier option for Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage. Smart tier is a fully managed, automated tiering capability for Azure Blob …

With Dynamics 365 Business Central 2026 Wave 1 release (v28) Microsoft introduced a new SFTP Client module in System Application, that provides an API that lets you connect directly to SFTP servers…

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2026 Wave 1 release (version 28) is available starting from April 1, 2026 (and it’s true despite the April Fool’s Day😜). This new major version of the prod…

Every time I show Dynamics 365 Business Central Agents (standard and custom ones) in action, there’s always someone that raise the following question: how much does this agent cost me? How do…

Dynamics 365 Business Central: using the standalone MCP Server provided as part of AL Development Tools.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers standardize how AI agents interact with external systems and data and Azure Logic Apps is the enterprise-ready tool for creating low-code workflows in the Azure…

Everyone of you know that for working with a Dynamics 365 Business Central AL project you need symbols, and symbols are usually downloaded from the Dynamics 365 Business Central environment specifi…

After launching the support of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Dynamics 365 Business Central, Microsoft also released an open project called BcMCPProxy on GitHub. BcMCPProxy is an (unsupported)…

In this post about the impact of browser and local machine on user’s perception of Business Central UI performance, I mentioned that Microsoft was in plan to add some new parameters in teleme…

Yesterday I wrote a post describing a “disaster” occurred to a customer working with Azure Functions and sharing the same storage account across different function apps. After this post…

A brief, sad story… After spending a few days providing an advanced Azure Function training to a partner (with the goal of refactoring an old monolithic application for the cloud) and providi…

Wait statistics are one of the most powerful diagnostic tools available to database administrators. They tell the story of what’s preventing your SQL database from running queries as fast as …

I think that probably for many of you January is the crazy month of the ERP go-lives (and probably not only restricted to the ERP). During every go-live of Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS, I oft…

One of the most consequential yet often overlooked architectural decisions in Azure Functions deployments is how you configure storage accounts. While it might seem like a simple infrastructure det…

The last weeks of the year are quite always extremely busy days due to go -lives. The go-live of an ERP solution is always a critical moment for a company’s future software infrastructure, an…

I think that everyone of you know that you can access an Azure Storage Account for managing blobs and files directly from Dynamics 365 Business Central (via AL code). This provides a nice (and ofte…

Less than two months ago we was here: During this session in Poznan, me and Duilio presented two tools that we use for managing Business Central online customers at scale: a Dynamics 365 Business C…

Every Microsoft product now has an integrated “Copilot” on it and Dynamics 365 Business Central follows this road too. The integrated Copilot Chat is the next evolution in how users int…

Some weeks ago Google introduced Antigravity, its new agentic development platform powered by Gemini 3 (but also supports Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-OSS 120B) that combines a familiar, AI-powered co…