Category: Business Central (Nav/Navision)

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2.

The fifth of the new functionality in the governance and administration section is Migrate more data from Dynamics GP.

The cloud migration tool in Business Central has been enhanced to provide more configuration options as well as expanding the scope of the data that it migrates from Dynamics GP to Business Central.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
General Availability: October 2022

In this release wave, Microsoft have enhanced the cloud migration tool to include the following capabilities:

• Option to not include inactive checkbooks.
• Migrate unreconciled bank transactions.
• Migrate vendor’s remit-to address to the vendor’s main address.
• Additional information available in the Dynamics GP Receivables and Payables Transaction lists.
• Migrate fiscal periods to accounting periods.
• Option to limit the number of historical Dynamics GP years to be migrated.
• Migrate vendor EFT information to the vendor’s bank information.
• Migrate vendor class accounts to vendor posting groups.
• Migrate customer class accounts to customer posting groups.
• Migrate item class accounts to inventory posting groups.
• Option to migrate a selection of modules.

My opinion

Before my recent departure from Dynamics GP, this is a feature I’d have had some interest in; I’m surely it will be popular with those who work with both systems and do work to migrate users from Dynamics GP to Dynamics BC.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2.

The fourth of the new functionality in the governance and administration section is Update licensed users from Microsoft 365 faster.

It’s faster and more efficient to update the list of users in Business Central with information from Microsoft 365.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
General Availability: October 2022

In large organizations with many users, Azure Active Directory often includes a large number of user accounts. With this update, Business Central queries only for users that have a valid Business Central license when the admin runs the Update users from Microsoft 365 process. As a result, the process runs faster.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2.

The third of the new functionality in the governance and administration section is cloud migration data upgrade for extensions.

Extension data can now be migrated and upgraded to the cloud using the cloud migration tool.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
General Availability: October 2022

Many customers migrating from on-premises installations use the cloud migration tool to migrate their data to Dynamics 365 Business Central in the cloud. The cloud migration tool migrates data to the cloud and allows you to keep it in sync with the on-premises environment by using replication runs. Once you’re ready to switch to the cloud environment, you run data upgrade to convert the data to the cloud environment’s table and field structure.

In this release wave, Microsoft have hardened the data upgrade step. It’s now faster, more transparent, more resilient, and runs extension upgrade codeunits. After triggering the data upgrade from the Cloud Migration Management page, you can follow its progress from the admin center and using Application Insights telemetry emitted to the resource set up on the cloud environment. Any data belonging to extensions installed on the environment will be upgraded along with data belonging to the base application. In case data upgrade fails, the environment will automatically be restored to the state just before data upgrade was triggered, so you can act on any errors surfaced in telemetry without having to start from scratch.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2.

The second of the new functionality in the governance and administration section is use service-to-service authentication with admin API.

Service-to-service authentication for the tenant administration center API will make it easier to manage environments in multiple Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenants without having to manually reauthenticate for each Azure AD tenant. Automating frequently used operations, such as update scheduling or AppSource app management, will be a significant time-saver for your support team.

Enabled for: users, automatically
General Availability: October 2022

In this release, Microsoft add service-to-service (S2S) authentication for the Business Central administration center API. This way, admins can run lifecycle operations across all environments in all Azure AD tenants that they manage in one go, without having to reauthenticate for each customer they manage.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2.

The first of the new functionality in the governance and administration section is get more, better communications as admin.

Admins get more proactive communications in this release wave. We will send info about more types of changes and issues that affect their environments.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
General Availability: October 2022

Recently, Microsoft moved to the Microsoft 365 Message Center and Service Health Dashboard as their primary channels for communicating with admins. This move means that they retired the notification recipient feature from the Business Central admin center.

Communications about availability, schedule, and runs of upgrades have been in those channels since they started. Microsoft are now adding more types of communication to these channels so that admins can be proactive in more scenarios.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2.

The sixth of the new functionality in the country and regional section is service declarations F01DGS for Belgium and Intrastat for Italy and France.

When required by local authorities, users are able to report when they export services from one EU country to other EU countries.

Enabled for: users, automatically
General Availability: November 2022

Currently, Belgian, Italian, and French authorities require reporting for exporting services to the other EU countries.

• In Belgium, this includes the F01DGS form.
• In France this includes the DES form.
• In Italy, this includes Intrastat for services.

This feature is available as an extension and can be used in all countries. Reporting is configurable, so it won’t have a hard-coded format for export.

It works with the Items (Type=Service), Resources, and Item Charges as services in both purchase and sales documents.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2.

The fifth of the new functionality in the country and regional section is IRS 1096 Form (United States).

Users can use Form 1096 to transmit other paper forms to the IRS (United States).

Enabled for: users, automatically
General Availability: November 2022

Form 1096 is used to transmit paper forms 1097, 1098, 1099, 3921, 3922, 5498, and W-2G to the IRS. Business Central users can now run the Form 1096 report and send it to the IRS if this is required for them. Because Business Central reports only Form 1099, the new Form 1096 is related only to any already transmitted 1099 paper forms.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2.

The fourth of the new functionality in the country and regional section is Word layout email template for CZ documents.

This update provides improved efficiency of sending Czech documents by email.

Enabled for: users, automatically
General Availability: October 2022

In order for users to easily send output documents by email, the Czech version of Business Central has been updated with a Word layout for the email body for documents such as sales quote, sales order confirmation, sales invoice, sales credit note, purchase order, reminder, sales advance invoice, and sales advance tax document.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2.

The third of the new functionality in the country and regional section is specify a default bank account by currency – Czechia.

Save users time on data entry by making a bank account the default account to use for the currency specified for the account. The account is then assigned to sales and service documents that use the currency.

Enabled for: users, automatically
General Availability: October 2022

Microsoft are aligning the existing CZ capabilities for filling the company’s bank account into sales and service documents with the capabilities in the base application, which uses the bank account that is set up with the relevant currency and with the field Use as Default for Currency selected.

To make the account the default for sales and service documents, on the Bank Account Card page, select the Use as Default for Currency field. If needed, you can choose a different account when you’re working on a document.

When you post sales or service documents, the selected bank account is copied to the Bank Account Code field on the posted documents. You can change the bank account on the posted document using the Update Document action. This action can also help you change the values of the symbol fields Variable, Specific, and Constant. When you fill in those fields, the symbol changes are reflected in the document and also in the corresponding customer ledger entry.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2.

The second of the new functionality in the country and regional section is configurable and redesigned Intrastat solution.

A new Intrastat feature covers all supported countries and regions with a configurable reporting method.

Enabled for: users, automatically
General Availability: October 2022

The new Intrastat solution provides a document with different statuses that show the history of any periods already reported. Intrastat works for both purchase and sales documents. The subject of Intrastat entries includes Items (Type=Inventory) and Fixed Assets. Many existing capabilities are improved in this release wave, and reporting is configurable without hard-coding file exports using the data exchange framework.

Technically, the new Intrastat reporting capability is provided as an extension.