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Stefano Demiliani
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Microsoft MVP. Microsoft MCT Regional Lead. CTO @ EID Lodestar spa. #Azure #MSDyn365BC Solution Architect. International speaker & Author. Runner & Cyclist.
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💣Introducing YAMPI: the #MCP server for Dynamics 365 Business Central administration💣: managing customer’s Business Central tenants at scale will now be more easy with #AI. 🚀
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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 the way&n…
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November 11, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: announcing Italy North availability. But what does that mean for IT customers in practice? Check here...
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: announcing Italy North availability.
This is the post for the Italian customers and partners that I had in the bag from months. I think you know that until today, every Dynamics 365 Business Central customer tenant is deployed in the …
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November 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Are you ready for the new Dynamics 365 Business Central icon? And to refresh your tattoo too? 😂
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November 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Understanding LLM performance degradation: a deep dive into Context Window limits.
Here is the conclusion of the #AI test I've promised some weeks ago in a training. Found some interesting results...
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Understanding LLM performance degradation: a deep dive into Context Window limits
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized how we interact with AI, but they come with a critical constraint: the context window. This limitation isn’t just a theoretical boundary, but …
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November 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Dynamics 365 Business Central and Azure Front Door issue. What happened exactly?
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Dynamics 365 Business Central and Azure Front Door issue.
Yesterday I received (and read) lots of messages by many partners and customers related to the unavailability of the Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS service for some period. The issue was not a …
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October 30, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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We have a new king 👑 @cursor.com.web.brid.gy today released 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝟭, their new agent model designed for software engineering intelligence and speed (4x times faster than similar models). And I can confirm this! A new gold star also in #AL development. Impressive! 🙌🏻🚀
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October 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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MiniMax just released 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘅-𝗠𝟮, a compact open source MoE model (230B total params with 10 billion active) built for coding and agentic tasks. Around 10% of Sonnet costs, MIT license. Regarding #AL coding: good results, but too much verbose on token usage.
It can also run locally😉 #msdyn365bc
October 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: debugging agent sessions.
The latest #AL language (available in VS Code) will permit you to debug what your agents are doing in your application. Because also #AI sometimes must be monitored 😜
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: debugging agent sessions.
In the latest AL Language extension for the 2026 release wave 1 release (runtime 17.0) Microsoft introduced the possibility to debug agent sessions from Visual Studio Code. With this 17.x release i…
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October 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: accessing Early Access Preview (development build) in online sandboxes. Finally you can, but be aware of the limitations...
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: accessing Early Access Preview in online sandboxes.
With the upcoming 2026 Wave 1 release wave for Dynamics 365 Business Central, Microsoft is finally opening the possibility to create sandbox environments based on the early access preview of the ne…
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October 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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💥Dynamics 365 Business Central: documenting a business process in the #AI era.💥
Because also writing documentation also can be fun nowadays... 😉
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: documenting a business process in the AI era.
Like probably many of you, in the last months of the year I’m in the middle of some really huge go-lives and one of the tasks that usually you need to complete before a go-live of an ERP syst…
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September 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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My favorite #AI coding model ever just got even better. 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝟰.𝟱 is here to rule them all... yes, also on writing #AL code for #msdyn365bc 😉
Congrats @anthropic.com 👏🏻
September 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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🚨Do you have Azure Functions running on Linux Consumption plan? If so, it's time to migrate...🚨
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Do you have Azure Functions running on Linux Consumption plan? It’s time to migrate…
If you have Azure Functions running on the Linux Consumption plan, it’s time to start planning for a migration. On 30 September 2028, Microsoft will retire the Azure Functions Linux Consumpti…
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September 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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𝗴𝗽𝘁-𝟱-𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘅 writing #AL code... honestly it don't impress me a lot. But I will give it more chances. Very good for planning.
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September 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the new MaskedType enum field-level property.
Because privacy is not an option... 😉
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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 is to mask them. A common way to prevent a field val…
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September 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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🔥PREVIEW🔥: The misterious 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗮 𝗦𝗸𝘆 𝗔𝗹𝗽𝗵𝗮 (foundation for the upcoming 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘬 4.2-𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨) with 2M context window, impressive in speed 🚀 on writing #AL code and extremely efficient on token usage! 🤩 xAI is still a super top player on writing code for #msdyn365bc
September 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: do you know that now you can also update sandbox environments to preview versions. But be careful...
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: update sandbox environments to preview versions.
It’s now a common practice for many partners that, when the public preview period for a new Dynamics 365 Business Central major version starts (usually in March and September), a new sandbox …
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September 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Model Context Protocol and the "too many tools" problem. Here's my view...
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Model Context Protocol and the “too many tools” problem.
Some weeks ago I wrote this post regarding the autodiscovery of MCP servers feature that many clients (like GitHub Copilot, Cursor and others) have and why it’s better to stay in control of t…
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September 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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And here is the latest requested speed test🚀: 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗸-𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲-𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁-𝟭 (top) vs 𝗚𝗣𝗧-𝟱 (bottom) writing #AL code. Same result (generated code is perfect!), quite the same token usage, but the winner in speed is still 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗸-𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲-𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁-𝟭.👏🏻
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September 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: controlling the #Copilot Summary system part.
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: controlling the Summary system part.
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 release (version 26) introduced a new Summarize capability for Copilot. With this feature a new Summary FactBox appeared on card and document pages (standa…
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September 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲-𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘁-𝟰 (on the bottom) vs 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗸-𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲-𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁-𝟭 (on the top).
Same #AL dev task, same perfect result for both. But the first delivered the result in less than 26 seconds 🚀🚀 (with less token usage), while the seconds takes around 40 (and with more tokens).
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September 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Congrats 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗸-𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲-𝗙𝗮𝘀𝘁-𝟭 🤩 . You're the new winner among the online #LLMs in writing #AL code. Incredibly accurate and super super fast 🚀. Just chapeau! 🙌
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August 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises: accessing embedded in-app resources from runtime packages. Be aware of that...
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Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises: accessing embedded in-app resources from runtime packages.
Starting from Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 release (more precisely from Business Central version 25.2) Microsoft has introduced the possibility to package and use resources (images, fi…
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August 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Visual Studio Code and autodiscovery of #MCP servers: it's always better to stay in control, so please check this setting.
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Visual Studio Code and autodiscovery of MCP servers: better to stay in control.
Visual Studio Code in latest versions has an autodiscovery feature for MCP servers installed in your local machine that automatically permits you to import MCP configurations from other tools like …
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August 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Vibe coding: yes or no? 🤔
In the last weeks I had lots of discussions about this topic with some of you. Is AI trustworthy? Is AI-generated code reliable? What's your approach to vibe coding?
This is my practice and what I think on this subject.
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Vibe coding: yes or no?
The term “vibe coding” refers to a coding approach where you instruct an AI to generate computer software code based on a general idea of what you want, and the AI produces the code for…
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August 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Azure Logic Apps: Built-in vs Managed Azure Blob Storage Connector. Be careful to select the right connector type accordingly to your scenario to avoid unexpected behavior.
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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 the built-in or the managed version of such connector. A connector provi…
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August 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM