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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.

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 12th of the new functionality in the E-commerce section is preview incoming e-invoices prior to processing.

You can enhance the accuracy of your data by previewing the details of incoming e-documents, such as invoices and credit memos, before you process them.

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

Feature Details

When you receive an incoming e-document from an external service or manually upload one, it’s typically in XML or similar format that can be difficult, if not impossible, to read. For example, if you aren’t technical and don’t understand the XML format, it’ll be hard to thoroughly review an invoice before you process it. To make it easier for everyone to review incoming e-documents, invoices and credit memos have an E-invoice Lines FastTab that displays details from the imported file, such as line and header information, in a way that’s easy to understand.

This feature is only available for invoice and credit memo types of incoming e-documents.

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 11th of the new functionality in the E-commerce section is process e-documents in two steps.

In most cases, businesses want to save time by fully automating as many processes as possible. However, there are cases where it’s important to pause a process to allow time for a review. Business Central does both. You can configure Business Central to create purchase documents in a fully automated, one-step process, or a two-step process that requires approval. Pausing for review gives enhanced control over how you process e-documents and create purchase documents.

The review provides additional control over the processing of e-documents.

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

Feature Details

You can choose whether to use automatic processing for purchase documents, where Business Central creates new documents right away, or a two-step process that requires explicit confirmation before creating a purchase document. In the two-step process, Business Central creates the e-document, but then you must confirm it before you can take the next step.

To set up the process, on the E-Documents Service page, choose one of the following options in the Processing field:

• One-step: Business Central uses your e-document setup to automatically create a purchase document based on the received e-document.
• Two-steps: Business Central creates the e-document, but you must use the Create Invoice or Create Order actions to create the purchase document. This allows you to review the received document before proceeding.

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 10th of the new functionality in the E-commerce section is create e-documents from posted sales invoices.

Electronic documents (e-documents) are documents such as invoices and receipts in both directions, delivery, and receipt. Using e-documents requires some configuration, and sometimes things go wrong. If there was a problem when you posted sales documents and Business Central didn’t create e-documents for them, you can generate new e-documents from the posted documents. For example, generating related e-documents can help you stay compliant with local or industry requirements.

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

Feature Details

If there was a problem with your setup for e-documents, and Business Central didn’t create a related e-document when you posted a sales invoice, for example, you can quickly create one yourself. To check whether Business Central created an e-document, open the Posted Sales Invoice page and select the Open E-Document action. If you don’t find a related e-document, you can run the Create New E-Document action to generate one based on the workflow rules. If a related e-document does exist, you can’t use the action.

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 9th of the new functionality in the E-commerce section is automate embedded attachments in PEPPOL.

Businesses can boost productivity by using embedded PDFs in the PEPPOL file format, ensuring human-readable formats with e-documents.

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

Feature Details

The introduction of the ability to encode attachments in the PEPPOL file format in Business Central 2024 release wave 2 provided the benefit of additional automation. You can automate the process of embedding sales document attachments in the PEPPOL file format. When you post a document, Business Central creates a PDF file and embeds it in the PEPPOL format, including both the full XML and a human-readable format.

During the purchase process, Business Central can process PEPPOL files with embedded attachments (invoices), decompose the embedded file, add it as an attachment to the e-document record, and make it available on the E-Document page for further processing.