This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The first of the new functionality in the Onboarding section is Easily Find And Install Payroll Apps From Within Business Central.

Easily find and install the right payroll app to connect your Business Central to external payroll providers, so you can manage finances related to paying your employees.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

In 2023 release wave 1 Microsoft are expanding the Connectivity Apps feature to include payroll apps in selected countries. Customers will be able to discover options for payroll apps from Business Central, so they can install the app that’s right for their business and start managing the financials related to paying employees.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The second of the new functionality in the Legislation section is Audit File Export Eases Saf-T Compliance.

SAF-T (Standard Audit File for Tax) is an international standard for the electronic exchange of accounting data from organizations to a national tax authority or external auditors. As such, it’s required in many countries worldwide as a standard feature.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Apr 2023
General Availability: May 2023

Feature Details

Many countries require reporting financial data and providing a set of SAF-T exports. The new Audit file export extension makes it easy to set up, generate, and export SAF-T in Business Central.

This extension enables future extension to additional audit files exports, so you can easily set up what you want to report to auditors.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The first of the new functionality in the Legislation section is Non-Deductible, Partly Deductible Vat Expands Functionality.

Users in all relevant regions have improved VAT functionality with non-deductible and partly deductible VAT enabled.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

Business Central lets businesses calculate deductible and non-deductible VAT amounts. You can configure VAT so that it isn’t deducted for purchases under certain conditions:

• The type of goods or services purchased. VAT is fully or partially non-deductible by the provision of the law on goods.
• Partially deductible prorated VAT. VAT is prorated according to the ratio between sales operations for which VAT is owed and all operations performed. VAT exceeding this ratio can’t be deducted.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The fourth of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is Transfer Environments Between Azure Ad Tenants.

In some cases, administrators may want to transfer their Dynamics 365 Business Central environment to another Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant—for example, to consolidate environments belonging to the same company in a single tenant when one company is acquired by another, or for partners to transfer a demo environment to their customer to test with. Until now, this scenario was supported through service requests that required paperwork to ensure consents from all involved parties were in place.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

In 2023 release wave 1, the process for transferring a Business Central environment to a different Azure AD tenant will be a self-service scenario. Internal administrators can request an environment transfer from the source tenant, then accept the transfer from the target tenant.

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The third of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is Include Or Exclude Tables From Cloud Migration.

Explicitly including or excluding certain tables from cloud migration runs will make it easier to specify what data you want to migrate to the cloud.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

Some customers have specific needs to explicitly include or exclude certain tables when migrating their data to the cloud. We now make it possible to specify whether any table—as long as it’s accessible by AL code and not marked as internal or on-premises only—is included or excluded as part of the cloud migration.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The second of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is Get An Improved Cloud Migration Status Overview.

The cloud migration pages in the application will be improved to create a better overview of the status of the data migration. The improvements will make it easier to surface any failures or tables that were skipped during migration.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

The cloud migration status details in the application help you stay informed on the execution of your data migration. In this wave, we make errors more discoverable, warnings more helpful, and it’s easier to get an overview of what data was moved, overwritten, or missed.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The first of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is Experience Improved App Management Settings.

With this release wave, it’ll be easier to make sure that apps that are installed in an environment are always updated to the latest version.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

Already today, you can update individual apps that are installed in your environments from the App Management page in the Business Central admin center. With this release wave, we’re adding new settings to manage apps from the admin center. For example, it’ll be possible to specify when updates for apps can be installed automatically, or to update all apps that have available updates in one go.

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The eighth of the new functionality in the Development section is ISVs Can Organize A Preview For Their Appsource Apps.

Allow AppSource ISV publishers to test and collect early feedback on the new version of their app by organizing a private preview with a select group of their customers.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

AppSource ISVs will be able to test and collect early feedback on the new versions of their apps by organizing a private preview with a select group of their customers.

When uploading an app to AppSource, publishers will be able to keep the app in preview mode. This will provide publishers with a link to the preview app that includes a custom “flightcode,” which can be sent to selected customers. Customers who opt into the preview can then install and test that app in their environments and provide feedback to the ISV.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The seventh of the new functionality in the Development section is AL-Go For Github – Modern Devops For Partners.

With AL-Go for GitHub, DevOps becomes a tool instead of an investment area. The target for AL-Go for GitHub is to have 100 percent of the functionality needed by 90 percent of Microsoft partners. These partners should be able to use AL-Go for GitHub as their DevOps solution without the need to hire a DevOps engineer.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

AL-Go is a collection of GitHub templates and actions that turn professional DevOps processes for Business Central AL projects into a commodity for our partners. The initial release of AL-Go has been a success with the partner community, with 500-plus repositories created over the first three months, offering an easy path to continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), quality assurance, change and performance tracking, code consistency, collaboration, managing updates, and more.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The fifth of the new functionality in the Development section is Provide Title And Custom Actions To Error Dialogs.

To help users get unblocked from issues when working with Business Central, Microsoft have introduced the capability to allow developers to unblock users when they encounter issues right away by choosing a corrective action. Making error messages more user-friendly helps build trust in Business Central while at the same time saving time in correcting common issues.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

Developers can now set the Title property on Error dialogs that are presented to the user to enrich issue description. On top of that, using the ErrorInfo object, developers can add up to three custom actions that will be displayed on the Error dialog to provide users with corrective actions. This can be achieved by calling the AddAction method on the ErrorInfo object, which can be passed to AL methods that support ErrorInfo such as Error, TestField, FieldError, and others.

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