Monitoring and telemetry in F&O

Applications Insights in an Azure service for monitoring of applications. Many Azure Services support it out of the box – you just connect, say, an Azure Function to Application Insights and it’ll automatically start collecting information about performance, failed requests and so on. Using Application Insights API from D365FO is possible and several people in …

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Integration with AX 7 in cloud

I’m getting a lot of questions along the lines of “how on earth can we integrate our on-premises systems with AX 7 running in cloud?”, therefore let me share some of my thoughts. The first important point to realize is that “to integrate” means many different things, so there is no single solution for it. …

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Flow and Logic Apps

I see a lot of confusion regarding Microsoft Flow and Logic Apps, so let me very briefly explain what they are and when you should use them. First of all, you should realize that they’re very closely related. For example, this is the designer for Flow: And this is the designer for Logic Apps: They’re …

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Windows Azure Virtual Network with Active Directory

First of all, why would you want to create virtual machines in Windows Azure? There may be many reasons; let’s mention just a few of them: You don’t need any new hardware or adding more pressure on existing hardware. Creating virtual machines is very easy – you can do it in just a few clicks. …

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