Azure Integration

28/05/2024

Introduction An APIM layer sits between clients and APIs(services). It acts as a reverse proxy, routing requests from clients to services. It may also perform various cross-cutting tasks such as authentication, SSL (Secure Socket Layer) termination, and rate-limiting. Clients must send requests directly to back-end services if you do not deploy a gateway. However, there are some potential problems with exposing…...

Introduction An APIM layer sits between clients and APIs(services). It acts as a reverse proxy, routing requests from clients to services. It may also perform various cross-cutting tasks such as au…

28/04/2024

In developing distributed systems and cloud-based applications, extensive logging is crucial in monitoring, troubleshooting, and ensuring system reliability. When it comes to Azure integration components, effective logging becomes even more critical due to the distributed nature of the applications and the multitude of services involved. In this blog, I would like to discuss the best practices and methodologies for implementing centralized logging for Azure integration components, ensuring effective monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting capabilities....

In developing distributed systems and cloud-based applications, extensive logging is crucial in monitoring, troubleshooting, and ensuring system reliability. When it comes to Azure integration comp…

27/04/2024

Migrate to Logic App Standard Microsoft Azure Logic Apps offer a platform, for creating, automating and managing workflows without the need for coding. The introduction of the Logic App Standard provides users with an alternative to the Logic App Consumption model. While this shift comes with advantages it necessitates planning and consideration. In this blog post we will delve into the reasons behind transitioning from Logic App Consumption to Logic App Standard outline the difference between the two models provide a guide for making the switch discuss important factors to bear in mind and address potential limitations of adopting the Logic App Standard approach....

Migrate to Logic App Standard Microsoft Azure Logic Apps offer a platform, for creating, automating and managing workflows without the need for coding. The introduction of the Logic App Standard pr…

18/11/2023

Microsoft Introduced Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse to export data from D365 finance and operations apps into Azure Synapse Analytics or Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

08/08/2022

D365 FO introduces New user-based service protection API limits

To ensure the consistent availability, reliability, and performance of the Finance and Operations service protecting against extraordinary usage, Microsoft will be introducing user-based service pr…

10/08/2021

D365FO business event integration with Azure Function App. Dynamics 365 FInOps (D365FO) business event integration with the third-party application using Azure Function App, Logic Apps, APIM, and WebAPIs.

Dynamics 365 FInOps (D365FO) business event integration with the third-party application using Azure Function App, Logic Apps, APIM, and WebAPIs.

29/06/2021

This blog describes the development best practices for the Azure Logic App. Design best practices for Azure Logic App-based enterprise integration Loosely coupled integrating using Logic Apps The loosely coupled architecture ensures that the producers (senders) and consumers (receivers) do not have to be sending and receiving messages at the same time, because messages are stored durably in the queue. Furthermore, the producer does not have to wait for a reply from the consumer in order to continue to process and send messages....

The design and development best practices for Azure Logic App. The logic App is part of Azure integration services us enterprise integration.

16/06/2021

Generate a Flat file with ANSI encoding using Logic App

Handling non UTF8 encoding in Logic App Recently there was a requirement to generate a flat file in Azure Logic App and deliver to Azure File Share with ANSI encoding as targeting application could…

16/06/2021

This blog entry describes the best practice for reading a message from Azure Service Bus in Logic App using Peek Lock Mechanism

This blog entry describes the best practice for reading a message from Azure Service Bus in Logic App using Peek Lock Mechanism Azure Integration: Azure Service Bus The central capability of a mess…

16/06/2021

This blog explains the integration option to export data entities from Dynamics 365 F&O into a Microsoft Azure SQL database. D365FO provides a feature via Data Management Frame called bring your own database (BYOD). The BYOD feature lets D365 administrators export one or more data entities that are available in D365FO into an Azure SQL database.

This blog explains the integration option to export data entities from Dynamics 365 F&O into a Microsoft Azure SQL database. D365FO provides a feature via Data Management Frame called bring you…

16/06/2021

This blog describes managed identities and different types of managed identities. Managed Identities are in essence similar to Service Principals and they are actually Service Principals. The biggest difference between both is that Azure Managed identities manage the initial creation of the service principal and automatic renewal of the service principal without any additional workload required – Which is great and highly recommended to be used.

This blog describes managed identities and different types of managed identities. Managed Identities are in essence similar to Service Principals and they are actually Service Principals. The bigge…

16/06/2021

Set financial dimension values for entities using oData while inserting data into D365 Unified Operations.

Use case: I had to set financial dimension values for Purchase Order Lines using oData while inserting data into D365 Unified Operations. To set the financial dimensions, we need to set the value f…