What's new and planned for Common Data Model and data integration 2019 release wave 2
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This topic lists features that are planned to release from October 2019 through March 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).
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 (
) shows which features have been released for public preview or early access and for general availability.
Common Data Model
Features to support use and adoption of Common Data Model.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
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| Additional capabilities in Common Data Model folders | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically |  Mar 30, 2020 |
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| New Dynamics 365 Industry Accelerator solutions | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 30, 2020 |
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| Public documentation for Common Data Model object model libraries | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 30, 2020 |
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| New scenarios added to the higher education accelerator | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Jan 17, 2020 |
| New Common Data Model standard entity definitions | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Mar 30, 2020 |
Data Integrator and Dual Write
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Actionable and user friendly error messages | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Mar 27, 2020 |
| Copy Finance and Operations data into Common Data Service | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Mar 27, 2020 |
| Ensure the Dual Write service meets accessibility standards | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Mar 27, 2020 |
| Improved error management with an ability to retry failed records | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Mar 27, 2020 |
| Show failed records for initial and catch-up writes | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Mar 27, 2020 |
| Write existing data before turning on Dual Write | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Mar 27, 2020 |
| Back up and restore Dual Write artifacts | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Nov 25, 2019 |
Mar 27, 2020 |
| Making Dual Write resilient to planned or unplanned maintenance | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Nov 25, 2019 |
Mar 27, 2020 |
| Supporting multiple legal entities | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Nov 25, 2019 |
Mar 27, 2020 |
| Enabling sales order flow to Finance and Operations | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 27, 2020 |
Mar 27, 2020 |
Export to data lake
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ensure the export to data lake service meets accessibility standards | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Jan 31, 2020 |
| Optimize performance for large data sets | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Jan 31, 2020 |
| Ability to link the Common Data Service environment to an Azure data lake | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 31, 2019 |
Jan 31, 2020 |
| Hydrate Azure Data Lake with Common Data Service data | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Oct 31, 2019 |
Jan 31, 2020 |
| Support for initial and incremental data writes to Azure Data Lake | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Oct 31, 2019 |
Jan 31, 2020 |
| Support for initial and incremental metadata changes in Azure Data Lake | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Oct 31, 2019 |
Jan 31, 2020 |
Gateway
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
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| Performance monitoring and diagnostics for gateways | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 1, 2019 |
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| Add intelligence to gateway load balancing | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 31, 2019 |
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| Manage gateways outside the default Power BI region | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 31, 2019 |
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| Power BI refresh using the dataset owner's UPN | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 24, 2020 |
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| Gateway management enhancements | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 23, 2020 |
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| Gateways now scale based on the CPU | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Oct 1, 2019 |
| Enhanced security | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Nov 30, 2019 |
Power Apps and Power Automate Connector Platform
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Improved command-line interface for connector developers | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 1, 2019 |
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| New and enhanced connectors in Power Apps and Power Automate | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 20, 2020 |
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| More open-source connectors are available on GitHub | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Oct 1, 2019 |
| Support for Azure API Management policies in custom connectors | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | May 1, 2019 |
Oct 28, 2019 |
| Better enterprise connectivity to SQL Server | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 21, 2019 |
Dec 19, 2019 |
Power Platform dataflows
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author dataflows in the Power Apps Maker Portal | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 10, 2019 |
Nov 15, 2019 |
| Consume data from entities stored in Common Data Model folders | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 11, 2019 |
Nov 15, 2019 |
Power Query Desktop
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Support for new AI Insights including Cognitive Services and custom Azure Machine Learning models | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Nov 30, 2019 |
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| New and enhanced connectors | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Jan 13, 2020 |
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| Data Profiling enhancements including better visualizations and more enhanced capabilities | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Oct 14, 2019 |
| Enhancements to Data Profiling | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Oct 14, 2019 |
| Custom connector and extensibility support | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Nov 11, 2019 |
| New and enhanced connectors in Power BI | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Mar 30, 2020 |
| Query Diagnostics enhancements | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 14, 2019 |
Mar 30, 2020 |
Power Query Online
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
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| Parity with Power Query Desktop | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Oct 31, 2019 |
| Smart data preparation | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Oct 31, 2019 |
| New and enhanced connectors in Power Query Online | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Mar 30, 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.
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