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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 1st of the new functionality in the Supply chain management section is use enhanced customer document layout for service management.

Businesses deal with multiple customer and vendor contacts who are responsible for different areas of operation. For example, accountants, purchasers, and warehouse staff. Because their interests typically differ, you’ll probably want to generate and send different types of documents to them. You can now save time when you send documents to different customer or vendor contacts by setting up specific contacts to use with specific documents. For example, send service invoices to accountant contacts and service orders to your customers’ purchasers.

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

Feature Details

You can now populate the Document Layouts page for vendors and customers based on settings on the Report Selection page. To send specific documents to specific company contacts, choose the company contacts to use for specific document layouts.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 3rd of the new functionality in the Reporting and data analysis section is use enhanced Financial Reporting capabilities.

The no-code Financial Reporting feature offers significant benefits to finance departments by enabling self-service financial reporting and statements without the need for developer assistance. The enhancements in the release wave boost productivity by allowing report viewers to hide empty rows, and report owners to document usage, write introductory and closing paragraphs, save and run reports using Excel templates, and schedule report runs. Additionally, administrators can see required permissions and access telemetry for report usage and lifecycle events.

Overall, these improvements streamline financial reporting processes, saving time and resources while improving accuracy and accessibility.

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

Feature Details

In this release wave, Microsoft have enhanced the Financial Reporting feature with capabilities for report viewers, report authors, and administrators.
Financial report viewers can:

• Choose to hide empty rows when they view a financial report.

Financial report owners can:

• Document the use of the report (using an internal description field).
• Write introduction and closing paragraphs for their reports.
• Save their Excel templates in Business Central.
• Run a financial report using a saved Excel template.
• Schedule when to run a financial report.
• Use a new Month to Date column type.
• Find financial reports that use a column or row definition.
• Use an accounting format where negative numbers are formatted with () instead of a minus sign.
• Open financial reporting when they create a new G/L account.

Administrators can:

• Use the documentation to find out which permissions are needed to run or edit financial reports.
• Get telemetry on the use of financial reports and lifecycle events.

My Opinion

On the surface many of these enhancements sound good, but with many end-users using Jet Reports or other reporting tools, I’m not sure how much use of them there will be?

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 2nd of the new functionality in the Reporting and data analysis section is access report and request metadata in Word layouts.

Similar to Excel layouts, you can now access report and request metadata in a Word layout without the need to encode this information in the report dataset. This enhancement makes report datasets easier to understand and removes tedious work for AL developers who create datasets for reports.

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

Feature Details

There are now two types of metadata available in Word layouts:

• ReportMetadata: Provides information from the report object, such as the object ID and report name. This information is always available in the same format and location in the data picker area.
• ReportRequest: Contains information about the report request, such as company name, user name, and the date/time of the request.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 1st of the new functionality in the Reporting and data analysis section is use enhanced analytics for manufacturing.

The improvements in reporting and analytics for the manufacturing area will help your business track new KPIs and scenarios in Power BI. Customizable Excel layouts for many reports allow you to tailor them to your needs, while enriched datasets provide more comprehensive analysis. The deprecation of legacy RDLC layouts and the addition of new reports ensure you’re using the most up-to-date tools. Comprehensive documentation and teaching tips can help you fully leverage these new features.

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

Feature Details

In this release wave, Microsoft have significantly improved reporting and analytics for the manufacturing area.

For most things that you can analyze with existing reports, there are new tools for Power BI, data analysis, and Excel.

• You can track new KPIs and scenarios in the updated Power BI Manufacturing app.
• Many existing analytical reports now have an Excel layout that lets you change the report as needed. The datasets are enriched with fields that report extensions often add. The legacy RDLC layouts are deprecated.
• New reports with Excel layouts are available.
• Many existing list reports now have a Word and a simple Excel layout that lets you change a report as needed. The datasets are enriched with fields that report extensions often add. The legacy RDLC layouts are deprecated.
• Many of the existing analytical reports have been marked as deprecated. (Removal date set to 2027 release wave 1.) For each report, Microsoft have specified their replacements.
• All existing reports have teaching tips and are documented, including deprecation and replacement options.
• Microsoft also added a new Manufacturing analytics section in the documentation.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 3rd of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is update sandbox environments to preview versions.

This feature allows customers to update their sandbox environments to a preview version during the public preview, enabling them to test updates on their own data and installed extensions. This reduces risks, enhances testing accuracy, and ensures seamless integration of customizations, ultimately leading to better-informed decisions and smoother transitions.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Sep 2025

Feature Details

For each major Dynamics 365 Business Central update, Microsoft organizes a public preview starting a month before the release of the update to enable customers and partners to test and prepare for the new functionality and other product changes using a sandbox environment. Until now, it wasn’t possible to update a sandbox environment to a preview version, which has made it difficult to test the next major version using your own data and extensions.

Starting with the public preview for 2025 release wave 2, it will be possible to update a sandbox environment to the preview version. This way, customers and partners can:

• Identify and address potential issues caused by environment data or installed extensions before the update is made available to their production environments.
• Test new functionality and the update operation itself using their own data, providing a more accurate representation of how the update will perform in their environments.
• Validate that installed apps and integrations will continue to work seamlessly with the new version earlier, allowing for more time to make any required changes before updating production environments.
• Prepare more effectively. Having a preview environment that closely resembles a production environment allows for earlier user readiness activities such as product training and change communication.

My Opinion

This one is going to be invaluable, giving partners and end-users the ability to do real testing as early as possible.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 2nd 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: May 2025

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 a good enhancement for administrators t see if there will be any issues prior to upgrading. Obviously not guaranteed, but a good increase in visibility.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 1st of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is add support for MultiSubnetFailover.

For on-premises customers who run the database with high availability features, failover is now faster.

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

Feature Details

MultiSubnetFailover enables faster failover for all Availability Groups (AGs) or Failover Cluster Instances (FCIs) in SQL Server 2012 or later and it significantly reduces failover time for single and multi-subnet Always On topologies.

In this release wave, Microsoft added a new server setting EnableSqlMultiSubnetFailover. When this is set to true, MultiSubnetFailover is enabled on the connections from the server to the database.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 14th of the new functionality in the E-commerce section is use e-documents to fix unposted purchase credit memos.

Mistakes happen, so it’s important to be able to fix them quickly. If you accidentally delete a purchase credit memo and can’t link the incoming e-document to the correct one, you can now recreate a new memo based on details in the e-document. Problem solved, and you can go take care of other business.

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

Feature Details

If you accidentally delete a purchase credit memo, you can’t proceed with the e-document connection with the regular purchase document in Business Central. To get yourself unstuck, you can run the Recreate Document action from the e-document. The action creates an unposted purchase credit memo based on information in the incoming document and the G/L mapping or item references used.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 13th of the new functionality in the E-commerce section is export reminders and finance charges as PEPPOL files.

Business Central supports sending electronic documents in the PEPPOL format, which is a widely used format that the largest document exchange service providers support. Microsoft have added more types of documents to the list of those you can export in the PEPPOL format, which can improve your ability to exchange information with your customers and business partners. You can enhance your work with e-documents in Business Central by exporting financial details from reminders and finance charges in the PEPPOL format.

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

Feature Details

Previously, you couldn’t create e-documents for reminders and finance charges. Now, the PEPPOL format accepts financial values from issued finance charges and issued reminders.

To activate these types of documents, on the E-Document Service page, run the Supported Document Types action. Add the finance charge and reminder document types on the E-Document Service Supported Source Document Types page. Business Central can then generate a file that’s formatted as an invoice and contains the financial values from these documents.