When Auditing meets Telemetry: a practical example.

This post is based on a real-life data auditing story, and where telemetry did the extra mile. The question was: “A Default Dimension record set has been deleted. Is it possible to know who, when and how they were deleted?”   Telemetry can do A LOT of good things but unfortunately it was not meant... Continue Reading →

How to choose the best Update Window in Dynamics 365 Business Central Online

Took me quite a while (close to 9 weeks and half) to pack up this blog post, due to a very tight and busy schedule. Now that I am on vacation, I would like to provide you my way to determine what might be the best Update Window in order to take 2 birds with... Continue Reading →

Client Crash? Check Error Dialog signal

Recently, I have been reported that after an upgrade there have been random client crashes. Let’s the hunt begin… But first: How do you handle client crashes? Ah. You are looking into Event Viewer in the Application Log in the machine that is hosting your NST. … (silence)… Well, in the online version you do... Continue Reading →

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 (26.x): real values to upgrade

Real life scenario related to a couple of great features introduced in the Armageddon version 26.x: a less-locking inventory posting scenario and the capability of avoiding unnecessary FlowFields calculations in pages. Cut the crap and show me the money! AH. BTW this is serious so, for this time, poker face and sorry no (just few)... Continue Reading →

Optimized Locking feature vs Dynamics 365 Business Central

Back to blog after a long pause. It wasn’t my intention, but organizing an event like Italian BC Day, it is not so finger snap, honestly, and the week after presenting with Stefano Demiliani at Dynamics Minds  did not help either with time management. Both events were a blast and gave the real spirit of... Continue Reading →

Obsoleting Keys : things to know

This blog post is more oriented to ISVs, but anyone could benefit from it and compared to other posts it is shorter and more serious. So less meme and more meat. Resumed in a nutshell: Obsoleting Key (and SIFT) does NOT apply any changes to existing metadata structure. Let’s make a simple example to make... Continue Reading →

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 : the ARMAGEDDON version

This blog post is dedicated to all braves who dare to  commit platform and application changes for good, no matter if code lines were there since the dawn of time. Working hard on upgrading and updating all our customers to the latest version, I was waiting for 2025 Wave 1 (v26) to be officially in... Continue Reading →

DIVIDE ET IMPERA: the surrealist history of a long report.

January is always funny to me. All the fun comes from basically two babies: go-lives – typically starting from the 2nd week of January – and closing year activities. In this marasmus, I have fumbled in a single long running report. In SaaS, of course. This report has been a robust beastie for more than... Continue Reading →

ITALIAN BC DAY – Thu 22nd MAY 2025

RIIIINGGGGG “Hey Stefano, it’s me!!! It’s TIME!!!” “… Who? Wha..? … OH C’mon! Why are you bothering me even in August??? Time to what?” “It is TIME for gathering. – Not Magic the gathering -. It is time to summon the Italian community together. To blow our horn !!!” “What? What darn horn?... Tell me... Continue Reading →

Z -Score and outliers : when statistics meet telemetry

I always told my wife that love is simple. It is expressed in binary. Values are 0,1. You are in love, or you are not in love. You can’t be 0.73% in love. To me, she is 1. And life? While love is simple, life is quite complex. Stop being slimy, you stupid romantic, and... Continue Reading →

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