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 April 2020 through September 2020. Because this topic lists features that may not have released yet, delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released (see Microsoft policy).
- For a list of previous wave release plans, see the 2019 release wave 2 release plan.
- For a list of next wave release plans, see the 2020 release wave 2 release plan.
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 day of release.
This check mark (
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Cloud operations
Dynamics 365 Lifecycle Services and the Power Platform admin center capabilities for Finance and Operations apps.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
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| Lifecyle Services Issue search improvements | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | May 1, 2020 |
| APIs to support applying packages for self-service environments | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | May 30, 2020 |
| Lifecycle Services support for dual-write capabilities | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | May 30, 2020 |
| RESTful APIs for database export | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | May 30, 2020 |
| Download task recordings from Business Process Modeler | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Jun 22, 2020 |
| Regions supported by Finance and Operations apps | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Jul 23, 2020 |
Jul 24, 2020 |
| Backup retention policy for sandbox environments changed to 14 days | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Jun 4, 2020 |
Aug 1, 2020 |
| Removing Remote Desktop access to Tier 2-5 Standard Acceptance Test (or sandbox) environments | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | May 4, 2020 |
Sep 30, 2020 |
Cross-app features
Capabilities and features that apply to all Finance and Operations apps.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
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| Embed third-party apps – phase 2 | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Apr 3, 2020 |
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| Grouping with subtotals in grids | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Apr 3, 2020 |
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| User productivity – new grid control – phase 2 | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Apr 3, 2020 |
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| User productivity – saved views – phase 2 | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Apr 3, 2020 |
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| Spotlight your brand using modern designs for business-critical documents | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Jun 5, 2020 |
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| Usability improvements for personalization and filtering | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Jul 3, 2020 |
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| New task recorder capabilities for RSAT | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Feb 3, 2020 |
Apr 3, 2020 |
| Recommended fields | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Feb 3, 2020 |
Apr 3, 2020 |
| Embed actions in the message bar | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | May 1, 2020 |
| Opt-in extended decimal support for currencies with dual-write | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Jul 3, 2020 |
| Subreport items supported in self-service deployments | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Jul 3, 2020 |
| Export application reports as Word documents | End users, automatically | Feb 3, 2020 |
Jul 3, 2020 |
| Expanded chart types supported by embedded Chart control now include Line and Area ranges | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 3, 2020 |
Jul 3, 2020 |
| Export options while previewing documents | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Jun 24, 2020 |
Jul 6, 2020 |
| Send documents to network printers while previewing online | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Jun 24, 2020 |
Jul 6, 2020 |
| Finance and Operations entities in Common Data Service as virtual entities | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Jun 5, 2020 |
Jul 22, 2020 |
| Scanning files and attachments for malicious code | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Jul 31, 2020 |
| Show related document attachments | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Jul 31, 2020 |
| Finance and Operations licensing | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Aug 1, 2020 |
To be announced |
Data and process integration
All your data is available in your own Azure Data Lake Storage data lake.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
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| Entity store data is available in Azure Data Lake | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Aug 1, 2020 |
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| Finance and Operations entities in a customer's data lake | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Sep 30, 2020 |
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| Tables in a customer's Data Lake Storage data lake | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Sep 30, 2020 |
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| Data in Common Data Service – phases 1 and 2 | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Feb 19, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Finance and Operations apps data is described in Common Data Model | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | May 1, 2020 |
Description of Enabled for column values:
End users, automatically: These features include change(s) to the user experience for end users and are enabled automatically.
Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically: These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and are enabled automatically.
End 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 end users.
For a list of the countries or regions where Dynamics 365 business applications are available, see the International availability guide. For more information about geographic areas and data centers (regions), go to the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform availability page.