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
AL transaction isolation levels and cache usage: is there an impact on #AL code #performance? This is my experience (and maybe something can be improved?) #msdyn365bc demiliani.com/2026/08/05/d...
Dynamics 365 Business Central: AL transaction isolation levels and cache usage.
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…
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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 session touches. How to do that? demiliani.com/2026/07/30/v... #msdyn365bc #LLM #GithubCopilot #vscode
Visual Studio Code Agent hook for auditing your AL coding sessions.
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…
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: the mistery around the “Parallel Session Management” codeunit. demiliani.com/2026/07/13/d... #msdyn365bc
Dynamics 365 Business Central: the mistery around the “Parallel Session Management” codeunit.
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…
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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. Now we have it! 🥂 demiliani.com/2026/06/26/d... #msdyn365bc #semanticsearch #AI
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Using Semantic Search from AL
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…
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Do you know that every time you start a session, #GitHub #Copilot can build a searchable history of everything you work on and then you can ask natural language questions about past sessions or get tips on how to optimize your Copilot usage and save costs? demiliani.com/2026/06/23/g... #msdyn365bc
GitHub Copilot sessions: obtaining tips for better usage.
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…
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Microsoft now provides a way to have the Dynamics 365 Business Central #AL tools available on every CLI-based agentic tool using a standalone process over the MCP protocol using AL MCP server. Here how it works... demiliani.com/2026/06/18/d... #msdyn365bc #copilot #github
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using AL MCP Server from GitHub Copilot CLI.
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…
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If you were one of the attendees of my session at @bctechdays.com now you know that Azure Logic Apps supports Agent Loop. However, by default, the connection to Azure OpenAI goes over the public internet and for some enterprise scenarios, this could be a problem. demiliani.com/2026/06/16/s...
Securely accessing an Azure OpenAI model from an Azure Logic Apps Standard AI agent using a Private Endpoint.
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…
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GPT-5.3-chat is now the default AI models in #Agents and Managed AI in Business Central. Here what changes now for you and what Microsoft should consider... demiliani.com/2026/06/01/d... #msdyn365bc #AI
Dynamics 365 Business Central: new model choice in Agent definition.
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-…
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#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 Code extensions... demiliani.com/2026/05/21/b... #msdyn365bc #code #vscode #devops #security
Be careful with Visual Studio Code extensions…
#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…
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🔥As 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 something more to announce...🔥 demiliani.com/2026/05/10/d... #msdyn365bc #AI
Dynamics 365 Business Central agents: announcing new updates.
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…
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🔥I spend some times in the last days on writing what I think about the situation of real #AI for business. This can be an unpopular opinion that might trigger reactions, but that is...🤭💚 demiliani.com/2026/05/04/w... #msdyn365bc #AI #LLM #vibecoding #Copilot #Azure
Why Customer’s AI project fail? The gap between hype and reality.
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…
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From Chat Completions to Responses API: why Azure OpenAI's new paradigm changes everything (and what means for Business Central developers). demiliani.com/2026/04/16/f... #msdyn365bc #AI #Azure #OpenAI
From Chat Completions to Responses API: why Azure OpenAI’s new paradigm changes everything.
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…
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Azure Blob Storage: optimize costs and performance with the new Smart Tier option. demiliani.com/2026/04/15/a... #msdyn365bc #azure
Azure Blob Storage: optimize costs and performance with the new Smart Tier option.
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 …
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: using SFTP from AL (the native way). 🚀 demiliani.com/2026/04/13/d... #msdyn365bc
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using SFTP from AL (the native way)
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…
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@bctechdays.com is calling... Waiting for you in #Antwerp, where passion meets expertise, and every conversation is a pull request worth merging. 🚀 #msdyn365bc #BCTechDays 👇 👇
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🚨Dynamics 365 Business Central: new strict URI validation in AL Http Client.🚨 #Security is evolving in Business Central v28. 🔒 Here's what developers and admins need to know about this critical change and how to adapt your integrations. demiliani.com/2026/04/02/d... #msdyn365bc #cloud #azure
Dynamics 365 Business Central: new strict URI validation in AL Http Client
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…
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🚨Dynamics 365 Business Central: how many #Copilot Credits my #AI Agent consumes?💵 demiliani.com/2026/03/24/d... #msdyn365bc
Dynamics 365 Business Central: how many Copilot Credits my Agent consumes?
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…
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Dynamics 365 Business Central: using the standalone MCP Server provided as part of the #AL Development Tools. demiliani.com/2026/03/09/d... #msdyn365bc #AI #MCP
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.
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With 𝗔𝘇𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱 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 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹?🚀 demiliani.com/2026/03/03/c... #msdyn365bc #AI #LogicAppsAviators
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 Azure…
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𝗤𝘄𝗲𝗻 𝟯.𝟱, 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 𝗤𝘄𝗲𝗻𝟯.𝟱-𝟯𝟱𝗕-𝗔𝟯𝗕 𝟴 𝗯𝗶𝘁). #msdyn365bc #AI
🚀 Dynamics 365 Business Central: download symbols from Microsoft's public NuGet source.🚀 demiliani.com/2026/02/23/d... #msdyn365bc
Dynamics 365 Business Central: download symbols from Microsoft’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 specifi…
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𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗠𝗮𝘅-𝗠𝟮.𝟱, 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 too😉 #msdyn365bc #AI #LLM
🔥Dynamics 365 Business Central: BCMCPProxy vNext🔥 - an improved server proxy that bridges MCP clients with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central's MCP standard feature. demiliani.com/2026/02/13/d... #msdyn365bc #AI #MCP #Claude #GithubCopilot
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)…
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💡Dynamics 365 Business Central: monitoring your customer's network speed from #telemetry.🚀 demiliani.com/2026/02/06/d... #msdyn365bc
Dynamics 365 Business Central: monitoring your customer’s network speed from telemetry.
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…
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The day I was waiting for Claude 5 to be released, I fell in love 😍 with the new 𝗤𝘄𝗲𝗻𝟯-𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿-𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 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. 🚀 #msdyn365bc #llm #AI
Azure Logic Apps: never share the same storage account between different apps.🚨 Yesterday I talked about this problem with Azure Functions, today it's the time of my favourite workflow's platform. 😉 demiliani.com/2026/02/04/a... #azure #logicapps #serverless #LogicAppsAviators #msdyn365bc
Azure Logic Apps: never share the same storage account between different apps.
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…
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Sharing a storage account between Azure Function apps is like sharing a bottle of prosecco🍾at 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. 🥴 demiliani.com/2026/02/03/a... #azure #azurefunctions #msdyn365bc
Azure Functions: never share the same storage account between function apps.
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…
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𝗞𝗶𝗺𝗶 𝗞𝟮.𝟱, 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... 👍 (and saves you money 💰 ) #msdyn365bc #AI
🚨Dynamics 365 Business Central: understanding the Database Wait Statistics page.🚨 If your database could talk, wait statistics would be what it's been screaming into a pillow for the last three weeks. 😉👀 demiliani.com/2026/01/28/d... #msdyn365bc #telemetry #performance #sql #azuresql #azure
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 what’s preventing your SQL database from running queries as fast as …
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𝗚𝗟𝗠-𝟰.𝟳-𝗙𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵-𝟴𝗯𝗶𝘁, 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 dev🤭 For C# or Python coding, it's instead a very good offline model. 𝗚𝗟𝗠-𝟰.𝟳 full (online) is instead great on #AL, see my previous test. #msdyn365bc #AI