Wednesday, September 16, 2020

New features at a glance for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations update 10.0.13

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations update 10.0.13 is generally available and the details of release can be found on docs site . This update marks end of 2020 wave 1 and as expected, this update is packed with lots of goodness and new features. 

I wanted to share a summary from the analysis I did post installing it. Talking about numbers, there are 60 new features and 950 KB fixes across various modules. 

Below is breakup of the new features per module. Most of the new features are released in Retail & Commerce, Project management & accounting and Accounts receivable module.



I did some more digging around the newly introduced featured and queried some tables under the hood and found: 


Some features that cannot be disabled once you enable them:



Features which are force enabled:



Preview features:



Some of my favorite features from the release, which I feel shall catch a lot of attention going forward: 


The complete list of the new features can be seen from feature management workspace after updating the environment



With regards to the platform capabilities, some cool and awaited features like saved views and new grid control have been made generally available. These will give great personalization capabilities to users and also allows them to use mathematical formulas in tabular grids and empowers them for fast data entry.

The tentative release plan for  wave 2 features can be accessed from  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365-release-plan/2020wave2/ . 

Microsoft business applications launch event is also planned where James Phillips, President of the Business Applications Group, will guide the community through what’s new in Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform 2020 release wave 2. Register here https://msft.it/6049TsJ1J

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