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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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🚨Dynamics 365 Business Central: use sequential GUIDs when possible🚨. A small performance tip that probably few people know or overlook. 🚀
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: use sequential GUIDs when possible.
I think that everyone of you know what a GUID is. A GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) is a 128-bit number used to uniquely identify information in computer systems. A GUID is represented as a 32-ch…
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November 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises and SQL Server 2025: why you should consider an upgrade to the latest SQL engine.
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Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises and SQL Server 2025.
Yesterday Microsoft announced the general availability for SQL Server 2025. This new edition brings important changes for partners and customers running Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises. H…
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November 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Ok... 𝗚𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶 𝟯 𝗣𝗿𝗼 is officially insane! 😍
#AI #Google
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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What’s the best open developer #AI IDE? Visual Studio Code! Why? Because all others are forking it 😂 the last is Google, that today launched Antigravity, its own AI-enabled coding IDE powered by Gemini Pro.
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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𝗚𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶 𝟯 𝗣𝗿𝗼 passes the #AL coding test with flying colors. Well done Google! We have a new giant!
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November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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At Directions EMEA I discussed with some of you about an app I developed time ago to have benchmarks across #AI models (performance, cost, token usage etc) for a specific task.
And here it is: presenting my LLMEvaluator app.
#msdyn365bc #llm #azure #openai #EMEA2025
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Evaluating LLMs performances for your AI task: presenting my LLMEvaluator.
After my session about creating AI solutions in Dynamics 365 Business Central using Managed vs Custom AI at Directions EMEA in Poznan, outside of the session room I received an interesting question…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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But the real winner today is 𝗥𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶🎉, a new preview model from #Microsoft (fine-tuned from GPT-5-mini). Perfect on writing #AL code (and documenting it) and one of the few that don't abuse on using .Reset() on record variables 😉
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November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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𝗚𝗣𝗧-𝟱.𝟭 vs 𝗚𝗣𝗧-𝟱.𝟭-𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘅 writing #AL code. Codex wins (but quite slow 🐌)
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November 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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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? 😂
#msdyn365bc #EMEA2025 #DirectionsEMEA
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