What’s new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central
This topic lists features that are planned to release from April 2022 through September 2022. Because this topic lists features that may not have released yet, delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released.
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.
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.
Application
In 2022 release wave 1, we deliver updates based on the most popular requests for improvement. We’ll invest in better reporting, and several improvements to the supply chain area.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
| Blocking deletion of G/L accounts | Users, automatically | ✔️ Jan 4, 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Allow the sell-to and bill-to customers to be different for jobs | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Bank reconciliation | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Change default company bank account on sales and service documents | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Check documents and journals in background | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Consolidate customer and vendor balances | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Fixed Quantity in product bills of materials | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Improved and extensible Adjust Exchange Rates batch job | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Map to Dataverse option sets such as payment terms, freight terms, and shipping agents without code | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| More control over deferrals posting | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| New UI for entering demand forecasts to add support for variant code and other improvements | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Payment reconciliation journal | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Report selection for projects | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Set default dimensions on locations | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Shopify connector | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Standardizing the bank reconciliation process in North American versions | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Support inventory pick and warehouse pick operations for jobs | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Synchronize sales quotes and orders in both directions between Business Central and Dynamics 365 Sales | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Use different G/L accounts for payables and receivables transactions | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
Better with Microsoft 365
In 2022 release wave 1, we invest in a stronger reporting story, including better integration with Excel. We also improve the support for collaborative business processes in Teams so you can bring Business Central pages into a Teams channel.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
| Enhancements to Microsoft Teams integration | Users, automatically | – | Apr 2022 |
| Outlook add-in – add email attachments to Business Central records | Users, automatically | Feb 2022 | Apr 2022 |
Development
We continue to invest in a rich spectrum of extensibility tooling capabilities for developers, including making the AL language even stronger, providing developers with a great experience.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
| Isolated events | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Apr 2022 |
| New isolated event OnCompanyOpenCompleted | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Apr 2022 |
| Auto-deploy dependent projects in workspace | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Demo tool and demo data for manufacturing scenarios | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| In-client performance profiler | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| AL-Go for GitHub – modern DevOps for partners | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Telemetry – company name as a custom dimension in AL LogMessage | Users, automatically | Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Users can export report datasets to XML | Users, automatically | Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
Governance and administration
Business Central 2022 release wave 1 delivers a set of admin and governance capabilities to help admins and IT pros set up, secure, manage, govern, and monitor customer environments.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
| Customer-managed encryption key for encrypting customer data at-rest | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Apr 2022 |
| Customers can consent to Microsoft Support accessing their data through a Lockbox consent flow | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Apr 2022 |
| Allow security administrator to define default permission set assignments when user is signing up | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Updating only licensed users from Microsoft 365 runs faster and more efficiently | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Permission set handling enhancements | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2022 | Jun 2022 |
Microsoft Power Platform
In 2022 release wave 1, we improve the integration with Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Power Platform.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
| Dataverse data change events | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2022 | – |
| Improvements to the Power Automate and Power Apps connector | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2022 | May 2022 |
Modern clients
In 2022 release wave 1, we make improvements to our extensive portfolio of clients with the focus on better usability, accessibility, performance, and stability.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
| Copy link from Share menu | Users, automatically | Feb 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| New desktop app delivering full web client experience on desktop is listed in the Microsoft Store | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Usability improvements to the web client | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
Onboarding
Onboarding is a key focus in every release wave. The aim is to make the onboarding of new customers faster, but also the onboarding of new users.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
| Context-aware links in the Help pane from Microsoft and partners | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Guided tour that helps users find settings and personalization tools | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Support for rich text in teaching tips and tours | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Tour of the Role Explorer and how to filter it | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
Reporting
Reporting is top-of-mind for many business users, both as a way to get insight into new growth opportunities but also as a way to share data as a foundation for business planning discussions.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
| New capabilities for financial reporting with account schedules | Users, automatically | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Use Excel to design layouts for reports | Users, automatically | Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
Service and platform
No matter the industry type of a small or medium-sized business (SMB), business users expect a dependable service and platform that they can run their business on.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
| Performance – partners can get database insights through virtual tables and in-client pages | Users, automatically | Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Telemetry – error dialogs are logged to telemetry | Users, automatically | Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Telemetry – the action of enabling detailed telemetry is logged to telemetry | Users, automatically | Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Telemetry – when a database deadlock occurs, it is logged to telemetry | Users, automatically | Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| Telemetry – support engineers can now see user IDs in telemetry | Users, automatically | Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |