Tag: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2

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 Microsoft Power Platform section is Rely on personalization to show or hide Power BI parts on lists.

Allowing users to personalize their workspace in a consistent manner creates a better user experience.

Enabled for: users, automatically
General Availability: October 2022

Previously, the Power BI part visibility on list pages was controlled by a combination of the Show/Hide Power BI Reports action on the page and personalization of the page’s FactBox. In this release, the Show/Hide Power BI Reports action is removed, and visibility relies only on personalization.

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 seventh of the new functionality in the governance and administration section is Get more visibility into outages.

In the unlikely event that an outage affects your environment, we’re making it easier for business users and administrators to learn about any outages that have been declared if they are experiencing issues.

Enabled for: users, automatically
General Availability: December 2022

With this release wave, Microsoft will more proactively inform business users and administrators in case they have declared an outage that affects their environments. Business users will see outage details when they try to sign in but the sign-in fails, and administrators will see a notice in the Business Central administration center.

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 governance and administration section is restore deleted environments.

Business Central comes with the promise of keeping your data safe and available to you. In this release wave, we give environments a state of soft-deleted for seven days after you delete them. The same terms apply when the environment is scheduled for deletion after a trial has expired. During this time, admins can restore the deleted environment in the Business Central admin center.

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

Environments in the soft-deleted state are visible in the admin center. Admins can restore such an environment without having to involve Microsoft support. Microsoft’s aim is to reduce the risk of data loss if an environment is deleted by accident, which in earlier versions would require urgent assistance from Microsoft support.

My opinion

While it shouldn’t be needed, I think this sort of enhancement is always going to be popular, for risk mitigation if for no other purpose.

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.