What's new and planned for Finance and Operations cross-app capabilities

Important

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This topic lists features that are planned to release from October 2020 through March 2021. Because this topic lists features that may not have released yet, delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released. For more information, go to Microsoft policy.

In the General availability column, the feature will be delivered within the month listed. The delivery date can be any day within that month. Released features show the full date, including the date of release.

This check mark ( ) shows which features have been released for public preview or early access and for public preview, early access, and general availability.

Business events

With 2020 release wave 2, batch business events are being introduced.

Feature Enabled for Public preview General availability
Batch notifications Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - Mar 17, 2021

Cross-app features

Capabilities and features that apply to all Finance and Operations apps.

Feature Enabled for Public preview General availability
New grid control – general availability Users by admins, makers, or analysts Aug 3, 2020 Oct 2, 2020
New task recorder capabilities Users by admins, makers, or analysts Aug 3, 2020 Oct 2, 2020
Saved views – general availability Users by admins, makers, or analysts Aug 3, 2020 Oct 2, 2020
Upgrade three jQuery components libraries Users by admins, makers, or analysts Aug 3, 2020 Oct 2, 2020
Lifecycle Services support experience Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - Oct 5, 2020
Embedded drill-through links supported in application reports Users by admins, makers, or analysts Oct 9, 2020 Oct 16, 2020
Enable a drop-down list on multiline controls Users by admins, makers, or analysts Sep 4, 2020 Nov 6, 2020
Regression Suite Automation Tool 2.0 Users by admins, makers, or analysts - Dec 31, 2020
New HTML editor control Users by admins, makers, or analysts - Jan 1, 2021
Multiple attachments for an email in ER destinations Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - Jan 22, 2021
Document (attachment) history Users by admins, makers, or analysts Nov 20, 2020 Feb 5, 2021
Email throttling Users by admins, makers, or analysts Nov 20, 2020 Feb 5, 2021
Grouping with subtotals in grids – general availability Users by admins, makers, or analysts Nov 20, 2020 Feb 5, 2021
Conditional Access with Azure Active Directory Users by admins, makers, or analysts Jan 28, 2021 Feb 5, 2021
Entity map tagging in dual-write Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - Mar 31, 2021
Support in dual-write to use a user-specified team as the owner for Dataverse global tables Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - Mar 31, 2021
User session management Users by admins, makers, or analysts Feb 1, 2021 To be announced

Data and process integration

Finance and Operations app data and processes are available in Azure Data Lake Storage, Microsoft Dataverse, and Power Automate.

Feature Enabled for Public preview General availability
Finance and Operations data in Azure Data Lake available in selected Azure regions Users by admins, makers, or analysts Mar 31, 2021 -
Finance and Operations data in Microsoft Dataverse – phase 3 Users by admins, makers, or analysts Oct 30, 2020 Mar 31, 2021

Description of Enabled for column values:

  • Users, automatically: These features include changes to the user experience and are enabled automatically.

  • Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically: These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, marketers, or business analysts and are enabled automatically.

  • Users by admins, makers, or analysts: These features must be enabled or configured by the administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

For a list of the countries or regions where Dynamics 365 business applications are available, go to the International availability guide. For more information about geographic areas and datacenters (regions), go to the Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform availability page.