Preview environment for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 release wave 2 (BC21)

Public preview for Business central wave 2 (BC21) is available now

You can create preview version from SAAS version.

You will get more information about major updates from following

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/update-rollout-timeline

Stay tuned for more updates and lets start explore new features from new version.

Cheers…

Business Central Wave 1 2022 Released

With the new dawn of 1st April Microsoft released Business Central Wave 1 2022.

The product DVD will be downloaded from following URL

Business Central Wave 1 2022

Few features of Business Central you can visit this link

Business Central Wave 2 2022 Features

Stay tuned for more detail.

Preview Environment for Business Central 2022 Wave 1 (BC20)

So with new year major version of business central is about to release and in context of that Microsoft released preview version of business central 2022 Wave 1 (BC 20). This preview version only possible to create for Sandbox and non production environment.

How to get this preview environment to get the hands on the new release

On the cloud version of business central one can create Sandbox as below for preview version

This preview version available on docker also.

For Docket Artifacts user following PowerShell command.

Get-BcArtifactUrl -storageAccount BcPublicPreview -country <country> -type <type>

To understand more about the features of BC20 you can visit here

Stay tuned for more on this version

What is planned for Business Central Wave 2 2022 release

As we are gearing up for new release of business central and already the buzz is started for new version . Here I will list few upcoming features which I am looking forward in new version.

In-Client Performance Profiler

Demo tool and demo data for manufacturing scenarios

Users can export report datasets to XML

Introduce copy link option in the Share menu

Guided tour that helps users find settings and personalization tools

Support for rich text in teaching tips and tours

New capabilities for financial reporting with account schedules

Use Excel to design layouts for reports

Permission set handling enhancements

For more details please visit on my twitter or here

Microsoft Business Central 2021 Wave 2 released

Microsoft releases business central 2021 Wave 2 (BC 19) on 1st October 2021 .

This version is available on

Cloud
On Docker
On Premise

To check I tried to create new sandbox on cloud environment and it is readily available on my region too,.

Apart from this to get more detail and understanding on new version Microsoft already scheduled a launch event with breakout session .You can register here Business Central Launch Event

For On premise version you can download from following link

Business central On-Premise Version Download

New Version for AL language also available to update.

Stay turned for more updates and keep exploring..

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Virtual Event

Get Ready for yet another virtual launch of business central Wave 1 2021 and it is streamed on 13th April 2021

This will a free virtual event for everyone from reselling partners, consultants, and ISV partners.

You can join from following link

https://events1.social27.com/msdyn365bclaunchevent2021w1/auth/register

Lets drive more deep in Business central with this event and don’t forget to get you system check specially for internet.

Cheers..

Upcoming New Features with Business Central

Recently Microsoft releases plan for major version of Microsoft Dynamics 365. This blog post actually focused on those features which I am looking forward to and may be every one in community.

Lets Start

Partners can add keys to base tables and table extension

Does anybody remembered this points which I raised in year 2017 on GitHub and finally this is going to add in April 2021 and I am looking forward to it as it is not supported and I have restructure the app.

Report Extensibility

This feature is everybody awaiting because if we need to change in any base app report then we need to copy that report ,make changes and use report substitution to display the customize report. Looking forward for new report extension object where in one can change layout and dataset.

Dimension Correction

In Year 2016 I wrote this blog post for updating the dimension and not it is going to be add as feature in Business central. This will help end users for updating the incorrect dimensions.

Above all it from April 2021 onwards Business Central will be available in India

Apart from above lot of new features are added in upcoming version of business central

Administration

Improve the reliability of the database export operation for larger databases with more companies

Improvements for the Delegated Administrators

Reassign an environment from one Azure Active Directory organization to another (through Microsoft Support)

Application

Assisted setup helps move the task of adjusting item costs to the background

Automatic creation of lot and serial number information cards

Bank reconciliation improvements

Changes in synchronization between contact and customer

Define lot sizes for various stages of production