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Stefano Demiliani

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Microsoft MVP. Microsoft MCT Regional Lead. CTO @ EID Lodestar spa. #Azure #MSDyn365BC Solution Architect. #AI engineer. International speaker & Author. Runner & Cyclist. http://www.demiliani.com

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

Dynamics 365 Business Central: using the standalone MCP Server provided as part of the #AL Development Tools.
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#msdyn365bc #AI #MCP

09.03.2026 11:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Creating MCP servers for Dynamics 365 Business Central with Azure Logic Apps. 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 Azureโ€ฆ

With ๐—”๐˜‡๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ฐ ๐—”๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐˜€ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ you can now create #MCP servers for many apps using built-in connectors and you can convert existing workflows into discoverable MCP tools. Why not using it for exposing MCP servers for ๐—•๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—–๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—น?๐Ÿš€
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#msdyn365bc #AI #LogicAppsAviators

03.03.2026 10:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐—ค๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐Ÿฏ.๐Ÿฑ, the latest series of AI models by Qwen are very interesting, expecially the Qwen3.5-Medium Series that can be used offline.
What about #AL coding offline?
Verdict: sometimes bad (low quantizations), sometimes acceptable (starting at least from ๐—ค๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ป๐Ÿฏ.๐Ÿฑ-๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฑ๐—•-๐—”๐Ÿฏ๐—• ๐Ÿด ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐˜).
#msdyn365bc #AI

26.02.2026 07:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Happy to see that they have added my suggestions.

24.02.2026 12:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: download symbols from Microsoftโ€™s public NuGet source. 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 specifiโ€ฆ

๐Ÿš€ Dynamics 365 Business Central: download symbols from Microsoft's public NuGet source.๐Ÿš€
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#msdyn365bc

23.02.2026 11:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐— ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ถ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜…-๐— ๐Ÿฎ.๐Ÿฑ, the new open model by MiniMax. Impressive in speed and it costs just $1 to run the model continuously for an hour at 100 tok/sec. At 50 tok/sec the cost drops to $0.30.
Fully comparable with Sonnet 4.5, but faster and 11x cheaper. Oh, very good in #AL coding too๐Ÿ˜‰
#msdyn365bc #AI #LLM

13.02.2026 20:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: BCMCPProxy vNext 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)โ€ฆ

๐Ÿ”ฅDynamics 365 Business Central: BCMCPProxy vNext๐Ÿ”ฅ - an improved server proxy that bridges MCP clients with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central's MCP standard feature.
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#msdyn365bc #AI #MCP #Claude #GithubCopilot

13.02.2026 11:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: monitoring your customerโ€™s network speed from telemetry. In this post about the impact of browser and local machine on userโ€™s perception of Business Central UI performance, I mentioned that Microsoft was in plan to add some new parameters in telemeโ€ฆ

๐Ÿ’กDynamics 365 Business Central: monitoring your customer's network speed from #telemetry.๐Ÿš€
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#msdyn365bc

06.02.2026 09:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The day I was waiting for Claude 5 to be released, I fell in love ๐Ÿ˜ with the new ๐—ค๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ป๐Ÿฏ-๐—–๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ-๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜…๐˜ released yesterday.
Here is the 8 bit version running FULLY LOCAL and writing #AL code. With GPT-OSS-120B, it's absolutely the best AI model for writing #AL code fully offline. ๐Ÿš€
#msdyn365bc #llm #AI

04.02.2026 20:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Azure Logic Apps: never share the same storage account between different apps. Yesterday I wrote a post describing a โ€œdisasterโ€ occurred to a customer working with Azure Functions and sharing the same storage account across different function apps. After this postโ€ฆ

Azure Logic Apps: never share the same storage account between different apps.๐Ÿšจ
Yesterday I talked about this problem with Azure Functions, today it's the time of my favourite workflow's platform. ๐Ÿ˜‰
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#azure #logicapps #serverless #LogicAppsAviators #msdyn365bc

04.02.2026 10:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Azure Functions: never share the same storage account between function apps. A brief, sad storyโ€ฆ 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 providiโ€ฆ

Sharing a storage account between Azure Function apps is like sharing a bottle of prosecco๐Ÿพat an Italian dinner: it's technically possible, but when you have a pro at the table drinking it all, you'll regret not bringing your own. ๐Ÿฅด
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#azure #azurefunctions #msdyn365bc

03.02.2026 09:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐—ž๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ถ ๐—ž๐Ÿฎ.๐Ÿฑ, the latest native multimodal agentic model by Moonshot AI (released some days ago) built through continual pretraining on approximately 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens on top of Kimi-K2-Base, rocks on #AL development too... ๐Ÿ‘ (and saves you money ๐Ÿ’ฐ )
#msdyn365bc #AI

28.01.2026 15:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: understanding the Database Wait Statistics page. Wait statistics are one of the most powerful diagnostic tools available to database administrators. They tell the story of whatโ€™s preventing your SQL database from running queries as fast as โ€ฆ

๐ŸšจDynamics 365 Business Central: understanding the Database Wait Statistics page.๐Ÿšจ
If your database could talk, wait statistics would be what it's been screaming into a pillow for the last three weeks. ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ‘€
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#msdyn365bc #telemetry #performance #sql #azuresql #azure

28.01.2026 09:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐—š๐—Ÿ๐— -๐Ÿฐ.๐Ÿณ-๐—™๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ต-๐Ÿด๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐˜, the new 30B parameter MoE model by Z.AI.
Here it's running local, trying to write #AL code. As you can see, not good for #AL dev๐Ÿคญ
For C# or Python coding, it's instead a very good offline model.
๐—š๐—Ÿ๐— -๐Ÿฐ.๐Ÿณ full (online) is instead great on #AL, see my previous test.
#msdyn365bc #AI

21.01.2026 07:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SaaS ERP misconceptions: the โ€œon-premises thinking trapโ€ 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 oftโ€ฆ

๐ŸšจSaaS ERP misconceptions: the "on-premises thinking trap"๐Ÿšจ (and sorry for the outburst).
#msdyn365bc #cloud
demiliani.com/2026/01/20/s...

20.01.2026 16:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I was near the limit ๐Ÿ˜…

17.01.2026 11:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My team of developers is ready for the evening ๐Ÿค

16.01.2026 20:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Storage Account Configuration in Azure Functions: impact, best practices, and scalability 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 detโ€ฆ

๐Ÿ’ฅStorage Account Configuration in Azure Functions: impact, best practices, and scalability. ๐Ÿ’ฅ
Your storage account configuration deserves the same attention as your function app design itself. ๐Ÿ˜‰
demiliani.com/2026/01/05/s...
#azure #azurefunctions #msdyn365bc #serverless #performance

05.01.2026 09:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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An #AI model is too big to run it locally? Maybe you can connect all your devices into an #AI cluster and share resources... ๐Ÿš€

03.01.2026 15:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Agree, same experience. MiniMax-M2.1 is really good too.

03.01.2026 08:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐—ค๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ป-๐—œ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ-๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฎ-๐Ÿด๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐˜, the image generation foundation #AI model in the #Qwen series is absolutely stunning ๐Ÿคฉ . Here it's running fully local, while squeezing the Apple Silicon processor's fans and generating an incredible high-definition image of #Milan (Duomo)๐Ÿ˜…

02.01.2026 19:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐—š๐—Ÿ๐— -๐Ÿฐ.๐Ÿณ the Z.ai 's latest flagship open source #AI model passes the #AL coding test at full speed ๐Ÿš€(and costs 10x less that Sonnet 4.5).
Next step: need to work to run it locally...
#msdyn365bc

02.01.2026 15:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dynamics 365 Business Central UI performance: what about the browser and the local machine? 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 companyโ€™s future software infrastructure, anโ€ฆ

Dynamics 365 Business Central UI performance: what about the browser and the local machine? Can they have an impact on how the user perceives the responsiveness of the UI? ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿš€
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#msdyn365bc

29.12.2025 14:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Securing your Azure Storage Account: a guide to enabling Business Central-only access using Network Security Perimeter. 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 ofteโ€ฆ

๐Ÿ’ฅSecuring your Azure Storage Account: a guide to enabling Business Central-only access using Network Security Perimeter (NSP).๐Ÿ’ฅ
P.S. NSP is a core building-block of the #msdyn365bc online infrastructure, so you should start exploring it too.
#security #azure #nsp
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22.12.2025 08:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Welcome to the CCMS project. 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 Cโ€ฆ

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Welcome to the #CCMS project.
#CCMS + YAMPI (the #MCP server for Business Central Administration+ more) are tools that can save hours on doing administrative tasks (+ not only) for your #msdyn365bc customers.
demiliani.com/2025/12/12/w...
Made with โค๏ธ for the community.

12.12.2025 11:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Is ๐—š๐—ฃ๐—ง-๐Ÿฑ.๐Ÿฎ (preview) passing the #AL test? Yes! ๐Ÿ™Œ
#msdyn365bc #AI

11.12.2025 19:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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One of the top requests I've received from those using my #๐— ๐—–๐—ฃ ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—•๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—–๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—”๐—ฑ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป was: "๐˜๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ฆ PTEs (๐˜ถ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ, ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ)."
And here it is๐Ÿฅณ
Details here:
lnkd.in/dwth9nBC
Finally now you can also do things like this:
#msdyn365bc #AI

10.12.2025 08:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Why waste time monitoring the status of your Business Central customer's tenants when you can have a team of #AI #agents doing that for you continuously? ๐Ÿ˜—
#msdyn365bc #telemetry

09.12.2025 13:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: prepare your extensions to support the Copilot Chat. Every Microsoft product now has an integrated โ€œCopilotโ€ on it and Dynamics 365 Business Central follows this road too. The integrated Copilot Chat is the next evolution in how users intโ€ฆ

Dynamics 365 Business Central: prepare your #AL extensions to support the Copilot Chat. ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿš€
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#msdyn365bc #AI #Copilot

04.12.2025 11:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œHackingโ€ Google Antigravity to develop AL extensions for Dynamics 365 Business Central. 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 coโ€ฆ

๐Ÿ’ฃ"Hacking" #Google #Antigravity to develop #AL extensions for Dynamics 365 Business Central.๐Ÿ’ฃ
#msdyn365bc #AI
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26.11.2025 08:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0