Regulatory Configuration Service – global repository for simplified configuration management
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | 
Nov 30, 2020 |
Business value
The Regulatory Configuration Service (RCS) allows business and power users to configure the regulatory reports, e-invoices, payment formats, business documents, and tax rules that are frequently affected by changing legal requirements. These configurations can be shared and reused in multiple applications and application versions. To simplify the storage, handling, and sharing of these configurations, RCS will support a new type of global repository through which users can centrally store and manage their configurations directly in RCS.
Currently, users need to complete a multiple-step process to use Dynamics 365 Lifecycle Services to export their configurations and share them through Lifecycle Services projects with external organizations. By using the new global repository as centralized configuration storage in RCS, users can store and directly share their configurations from the repository.
Feature details
As part of 2020 release wave 2, the global repository functionality is generally available as a US-based service and supports the following capabilities:
- Users will have read access to all Microsoft-produced configurations directly in the RCS/global repository as a connected application (without using Lifecycle Services).
- Users can filter by using different tags to discover configurations related to country/region, functional/feature area, industry, and business document type.
- Users will be able to centrally store, publish, and share their configurations with their own organization from their instance of the RCS/global repo.
- Users will have the ability to share configurations directly with external organizations from their instance of the RCS/global repo.
- Users can create or derive configuration from their instance of RCS and use combined completion/deployment to a connected application to shorten the testing configurations path.
