Year: 2024

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.

The 4th of the new functionality in the Legislation section is navigate the sustainability manager role center with ease.

The Sustainability manager role center enhances operational efficiency by providing quick access to key environmental metrics and compliance data. The streamlined access enables managers to monitor sustainability initiatives in real-time, ensuring timely adjustments to meet regulatory standards and corporate sustainability goals. By reducing the time spent on data retrieval and analysis, this feature allows sustainability managers to focus on strategic decision-making and continuous improvement, ultimately driving more sustainable business practices and enhancing overall organizational performance.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Oct 2024

Feature Details

In the future, sustainability experts within the company can establish a dedicated role center – Sustainability Manager, where they can access all crucial data concerning greenhouse gas emissions within their organizations.

Users will have specific menu, with sustainability-related information provided in the headline, as well as charts, and cues for all important information about emissions, as well as purchase document featuring emission-related lines and goals.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.

The 3rd of the new functionality in the Legislation section is achieve sustainability scorecards and goals.

Achieving sustainability scorecards and goals enhances a company’s reputation, operational efficiency, and compliance, leading to cost savings and risk mitigation. It attracts investors, customers, and talent while fostering innovation and ensuring long term viability. Sustainability efforts align with regulatory incentives and market demand, creating a competitive advantage and driving growth through responsible resource management and positive stakeholder engagement.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Oct 2024

Feature Details

Users have the ability to set up specific scorecards with owner information to track sustainability and add goals for each of them.

Goals will have starting and ending dates, baselines, current and target values for all tracked emissions, so users can easily track their progress in achieving their sustainability plans.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.

The 2nd of the new functionality in the Legislation section is use multiple VAT numbers for a customer.

Customers that have warehouses in multiple EU countries probably have a different VAT number for each country. Business Central makes it easy to accommodate that situation. You can set up alternate ship-to addresses for the customers and specify the VAT number to use for those addresses on your sales documents.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Oct 2024

Feature Details

Customers that have warehouses in different EU countries must register a new VAT number in each country, which means they have more than one VAT number.

You can add the VAT Number, the VAT Business Posting Group, and the General Business Posting Group to the alternate address for a customer if the address has a different Country/Region Code. When you want to send goods to another address and you select an Alternate Ship-to Address, Business Central shows the appropriate VAT number. You also have the option to use different posting groups.

This feature is available on the following sales documents:

• Sales invoices
• Sales orders
• Sales credit memos
• Sales return orders

My Opinion

This has been a requirement which has come up with a few clients recently, so it is good to see it being introduced into Business Central. It seems odd that it isn’t also available on sales quotes; what will the VAT number be on the order when the quote is converted and an alternative address has been selected?

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.

The 7th of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is support IPv6 for enhanced security and scalability.

The adoption of IPv6 in Business Central helps to ensure uninterrupted service, improved security, and scalability in the future as the number of internet-connected devices continues to grow and IPv4 addresses become less available.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Feb 2025

Feature Details

The supply of IPv4 addresses is limited and will eventually run out. So, starting in 2024 wave 2, Business Central supports IPv6 addresses. The transition to IPv6 not only ensures seamless connectivity for your environments but also enhances the security of your data with IPv6’s built-in security protocols. More importantly, this update prepares your environments for the future as the world moves towards widespread IPv6 adoption.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.

The 6th of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is get list of manageable environments for Microsoft Entra apps.

Using a new admin center API endpoint, Microsoft Entra apps authorized in the admin center can get a list of environments for which the app is authorized. This capability reduces the manual overhead associated with maintaining environment lists and facilitates the automation of repetitive administrative tasks, enhancing operational efficiency for partners.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Dec 2024

Feature Details

Partners increasingly automate administrative tasks on their customer environments by authorizing their multitenant Microsoft Entra app in their customers’ admin center. As the number of customers per partner and partners per customer grows, and with the environment-level access controls introduced for partners in 2024 wave 1, the overhead of manually keeping lists of manageable environments per Microsoft Entra app is increasing. So is the demand to automate repetitive tasks, like updating installed apps.

A new API endpoint for Microsoft Entra apps returns a complete list of all environments in all tenants that are manageable by the Microsoft Entra app. This will make it easier for partners to automate administrative tasks across all their customers’ environments.

My Opinion

This isn’t my area, but it sounds like an enhancement which will be beneficial.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.

The 4th of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is view app compatibility with future versions in admin center.

By reporting the compatibility between the base application and other apps installed on an environment in the admin center, administrators can better prepare for changes and avoid potential problems during upgrades.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Dec 2024

Feature Details

Environment updates might include changes to functionality that installed apps depend on, which, in turn, can break those apps. Until 2024 release wave 2, only notification recipients and registered Application Insights resources received messages about incompatibilities of installed apps with a future Business Central update.

To make it easier to plan for these changes ahead of time and avoid upgrade failures, you can now view app compatibility reports directly in the admin center. You’re prevented from scheduling an update to a version that installed apps are incompatible with.

My Opinion

This sounds like it will be useful to avoid nasty surprises at upgrade time by giving advance notification and allowing any issues to be managed.