Hi, Readers.
Are you enjoying Microsoft Inspire now? In the early hours of July 15, Japan time, Microsoft Inspire is live. (The largest partner event of the year, focused on Microsoft Cloud and the opportunities it provides for partners)
If you don’t have time to watch Live, I hope the links below will help you.
Microsoft Inspire 2021: Day 1
Ok, let’s go back to the topic. Microsoft has brought us a lot of exciting intelligence this time, and officially released Dynamics 365 2021 Wave 2 Release plans and Power Platform 2021 release wave 2 plan.
The information below is last updated on July 14, 2021.
For all Dynamics 365 products: Download the 2021 release wave 2 PDF
Dynamics 365 2021 release wave 2 plan
Key dates for the 2021 release wave 2:
For Business Central: You can find all the new features in the link below.
What’s new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central
Application
With Business Central 2021 release wave 2, we’ll deliver updates in some of the most requested areas for improvement, such as the finance and supply chain areas.
Better with Microsoft 365
In Business Central 2021 release wave 2, we invest in better integration with Excel. We also further improve support for collaborative business processes in Microsoft Teams so you can bring Business Central pages into a Teams channel.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enhancements to Microsoft Teams integration | Users, automatically | – | Oct 2021 |
| Centralized Deployment of Office add-ins | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Aug 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Enhancements to the Outlook add-in | Users, automatically | Aug 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Enhancements to working with Microsoft Excel | Users, automatically | Aug 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Share a record link to Microsoft Teams | Users, automatically | Aug 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| AL API for sharing files in Microsoft 365 | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Sep 2021 | Oct 2021 |
Country and regional
There is a large demand for Dynamics 365 Business Central online. We are increasing the global availability to cover more countries and regions so that small and midsized businesses across the world can achieve more.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Country and regional expansion – Argentina | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Country and regional expansion – Bulgaria | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Country and regional expansion – Chile | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Country and regional expansion – Myanmar | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Country and regional expansion – Puerto Rico | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Country and regional expansion – Slovakia | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Country and regional expansion – Ukraine | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2021 | Oct 2021 |
Development
We continue to invest in a rich spectrum of extensibility tooling capabilities for developers, including making the AL language even stronger, providing developers with a great experience.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL compiler diagnostic messages includes URLs | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Aug 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Force sync of customer-specific extensions in online environments | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Aug 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Generated documentation for AL language | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Aug 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Profiling AL performance with Snapshot Debugger | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Aug 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Richer access control for extension source in cloud environments | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Aug 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Transactional installing and syncing extensions on-premises | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Aug 2021 | Oct 2021 |
Governance and administration
The 2021 release wave 2 delivers a set of admin and governance capabilities designed to help admins and IT pros set up, secure, manage, govern, and monitor customer environments.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manage access to environments using Azure Active Directory groups | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Oct 2021 |
| Copying environments of different types | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Operations log enhancements | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Restarting environments | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2021 | Oct 2021 |
Microsoft Power Platform
With Business Central 2021 release wave 2, we improve the integration with Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Power Platform.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Show reports from named and shared Power BI workspaces in Business Central | Users, automatically | Sep 2021 | Oct 2021 |
Modern clients
In Business Central 2021 release wave 2, we make improvements to our extensive portfolio of clients with the focus on better usability, accessibility, performance, and stability.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unhindered data entry across rows | Users, automatically | Oct 2021 | |
| Performance improvements to the Business Central web client | Users, automatically | Aug 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Usability improvements to the Business Central web client | Users, automatically | Aug 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Discovering reports and administration areas in Role Explorer | Users, automatically | Sep 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| Support for localized decimal separator on numeric keypads | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Dec 2021 | Feb 2022 |
Service and platform
No matter the industry type of a small or medium-sized business (SMB), business users expect a dependable service and platform that they can run their business on.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| OData read-only intent | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Oct 2021 |
| Protect the Business Central Server against excessive background sessions for an environment | Users, automatically | Aug 2021 | Oct 2021 |
PS: For Microsoft Power Platform: 2021 release wave 2 plan
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