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Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 - Release Wave 1

Written by TNP | Mar 8, 2024 10:02:56 AM

This release wave plan of Dynamics 365 Business Central outlines all new functionalities that are planned to release from April 2024 through September 2024. Delivery times may change and projected functionality may not be released.

For our blog on the releases we enjoyed in October 2023, see the 2023 release wave 2 release plan.


Highlights from the release include:

  • Seamless integration with Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI for a unified customer experience. Core application functionality receives substantial investment in this release wave to optimise business processes.

  • Expanded Copilot capabilities, featuring marketing text suggestions, enhance productivity for a broader spectrum of SMB roles. Focus on making Business Central AL developers more productive.

  • Business Central is now available in more countries and regions worldwide, extending its global reach.

  • Introduction of new tools and improvements for administrators to manage environments, apps, and data migrations. Empowering consultants, citizen developers, and users to achieve more while lowering the overall cost of changes.

 

In the 'General availability' column, the feature will be delivered within the month listed. The delivery date can be any day within that month. Released features show the full date, including the day of release.

Description of Enabled for column values:

  • Users, automatically: These features include changes to the user experience and are enabled automatically.

  • Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically: These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, marketers, or business analysts and are enabled automatically.

  • Users by admins, makers, or analysts: These features must be enabled or configured by the administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Adapt faster with Microsoft Power Platform

The 2024 release wave 1 is bringing a seamless experience for customers who use Business Central together with Power Apps, Power Automate or Power BI.

Feature Enabled for Public preview General availability
Manage work orders in Field Service, invoice them in Business Central Users by admins, makers, or analysts Mar 2024 Apr 2024
Use virtual tables to expose more Business Central data in Dataverse Users by admins, makers, or analysts Mar 2024 Apr 2024
Improve approval processes via Power Automate Users, automatically Apr 2024 Apr 2024


Application

Core application functionality is a key investment area for Microsoft. It's what helps companies optimise their business processes. 

Feature Enabled for Public preview General availability
Archive projects Users by admins, makers, or analysts Mar 2024 Apr 2024
Usability improves for service and projects Users, automatically Mar 2024 Apr 2024
Use deferral codes in purchase and sales journals Users, automatically Mar 2024 Apr 2024
Define a service invoice posting policy for various users Users by admins, makers, or analysts Mar 2024 Apr 2024
Define default location for project or project phase Users, automatically Mar 2024 Apr 2024
Block item, item variant or service item from use in service management transactions Users, automatically Mar 2024 Apr 2024
Connect Business Central with Shopify B2B Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically Mar 2024 Apr 2024
Set up financial consolidation runs more efficiently Users, automatically Apr 2024 Apr 2024
Simpler Shopify connection Users, automatically Mar 2024 Apr 2024
Get more productive while entering time sheets Users, automatically Mar 2024 Apr 2024
Assemble to project Users, automatically Mar 2024 Apr 2024
Invoice a customer for multiple projects Users, automatically Mar 2024 Apr 2024
Use new Excel layouts for 35 selected reports Users, automatically Apr 2024 Apr 2024
Use standard terminology for project management Users, automatically Mar 2024 Apr 2024
Use currencies when posting employee transactions Users, automatically Mar 2024 Apr 2024


Copilot and AI innovation

This wave expands on Microsoft's first Copilot capability, marketing text suggestions, boosting productivity for a broader set of SMB roles.

Feature Enabled for Public preview General availability

Introduce Power Automate Copilot integration with Business Central

Users, automatically Apr 2024 -
Map e-documents to purchase order lines with Copilot Users, automatically Apr 2024 -
Create sales lines easily with Copilot Users, automatically Jul 2024 -
Extend Copilot using richer development tools Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - Apr 2024
Get to insights faster with Copilot-generated analysis tabs Users, automatically Apr 2024 -
Create product information faster with Copilot Users, automatically Jul 2024 -
Learn more about fields with Copilot Users, automatically Apr 2024 -

Country and Regional

Microsoft have made Business Central available in more countries and regions around the world in this 2024 release wave 1.

Feature Enabled for Public preview General availability
Automate IRS 1099 Form submission in US Users, automatically - Apr 2024                                     
Enable additional countries and regions Users, automatically Jun 2024 Jul 2024


Development

This release wave is focusing on making Business Central AL developers more productive, and empowering consultants, citizen developers, and users to do more while lowering the cost of changes.

Feature Enabled for Public preview General availability
Handle multiple file uploads and file drop zones Users, automatically Mar 2024 Apr 2024
Debug the system application Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically Apr 2024 Apr 2024
Remove friction when working with external app dependencies Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically Apr 2024 Apr 2024


Governance and Administration

Microsoft have added new tools and improving existing tools for administrators to manage environments, apps, and data migrations.

Feature Enabled for Public preview General availability
Use linked environment in Dataverse integration Users by admins, makers, or analysts Mar 2024 Apr 2024
Audit Business Central operations in Microsoft Purview Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - May 2024
Encrypt data at-rest with customer-managed encryption key Users by admins, makers, or analysts - May 2024
Allow customers to consent to Microsoft Support accessing their data Users by admins, makers, or analysts - May 2024
Link Business Central environments to Power Platform environments Users by admins, makers, or analysts - May 2024


Legislation

This Business Central release wave delivers a set of legislative capabilities that can act as a foundation for more specific requirements in local versions.

Feature Enabled for Public preview General availability
See VAT date in posting previews Users, automatically May 2024 Jun 2024
Automate country of origin listed for item tracking code in Intrastat reporting Users, automatically May 2024 Jun 2024
Achieve sustainable compliance with Business Central Users, automatically Apr 2024 May 2024


Reporting and Data Analysis

Access to the right reports and data analysis capabilities is essential for companies wanting to be in control of the business and identify new growth opportunities.

Feature Enabled for Public preview General availability
Discover report and data analysis content easily Users by admins, makers, or analysts Apr 2024 Apr 2024


User Experiences

Great user experiences help users enter, update, and fix mistakes in their data in an intuitive way.

Feature Enabled for Public preview General availability
Use drag and drop to attach multiple files Users, automatically Mar 2024 Apr 2024
Go to pages that contain a field that's causing a platform error Users, automatically Mar 2024 Apr 2024
Share error details to get help from another user Users, automatically Mar 2024 Apr 2024
 
  • You are able to opt into some features as part of early access on February 5, 2024, including all mandatory changes that affect users. To learn more, go to Early access FAQ.

For more information about geographic areas and datacenters (regions), go to the Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform availability page.

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