- Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2 focuses on improvements to performance, integration with Microsoft Teams, and tools for migrating customers from earlier Dynamics versions. - Key updates include deeper integration with Microsoft Teams, improved performance and scalability, and new tools to simplify migrating customers from Dynamics GP and NAV. - The release also features enhancements to the modern clients, administration tools, and integration with Power Platform features like Common Data Service.

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Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2

2. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Introduction and thanks for Watching
https://robertostefanettinavblog.com/2020/10/01/business-central-2020-
release-wave-2-saas-is-available/

3. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Administration Application
Microsoft Teams
Integration
Modern Client
Improvements
Seamless Service Cloud Migration Tools
PILLARS LIST
Power Platforms
Integration
Modern
Development Tools

4. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
MSDYN365BC2020W2 - OBJECTIVESTARGETS
Rapidly growing customer base
For 2020 release wave 2, Microsoft Dynamics Business Central investments center on
delivering a world-class service to meet the demands of a rapidly growing customer base
• Improved performance
• Handling of file storage
• Geographic expansion together with support for Group VAT
• Top customer requested features
• Deeper integration with Microsoft Teams

5. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Seamless service
Performance, reliability, and supportability are all three essential to ensure that the
service quality remains ahead of the growth in usage.
Accessibility, already in a strong position, must be preserved, and better support for
resizing pages is added.
The 2020 release wave 2 also incorporates the results of a material top-to-bottom
investment in Business Central service security.
Partners are a critical component of the Business Central ecosystem; this release wave
enables further telemetry visibility for partners through Azure Insights, and it brings
improvements in conflict handling for synchronization with Common Data Service.

6. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Productivity
This release continues our commitment toward world-class productivity with
enhancements to the modern clients, and requested features such as returning to the
request page after previewing a report, and the ability to change the assigned printer
before printing a report.

7. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Microsoft Power Platform integration
This release includes further investments in our integration with Microsoft Power
Platform. We are investing in both existing connectors as well as enabling virtual
entities.
Better with Office 365
We enable integration with Microsoft Teams to help teams collaborate and make
decisions faster by accessing their business data from Teams channels.
Geographic expansion
The 2020 release wave 2 lays the foundation for future onboarding of more
countries and regions. We plan to onboard Brazil, Ireland, and Lithuania for Business
Central 2020 release wave 2.

8. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Customer-requested enhancements
Business Central continues to focus on responding to top customer enhancement
requests. In addition to multiple features harvested from the product Ideas portal,
top feedback areas such as email setup and use is enhanced.
Customer migration tools
To simplify the journey for existing Dynamics customers to Business Central online,
support is added for migration from a broader set of Dynamics GP and Dynamics NAV
versions.
Improvements are also made for selective migration of Dynamics GP customers and
vendors along with enhanced migration of Dynamics GP Chart of Account setups.

9. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Cloud Migration!
Together, these enhancements are designed to drive further service growth by
empowering the migration from various versions of Dynamics on-premises, activating
partners that bring their vertical solutions to Business Central online, and further
accelerating the growth of net-new customers to Dynamics 365.
All of this comes with improved service quality, supportability, end-user productivity,
and improved experiences for customers and partners.

10. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
WHAT’S NEW AND PLANNED - DETAILS
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365-release-plan/2020wave2/smb/dynamics365-
business-central/planned-features

11. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
What’s New

12. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
WHAT’S NEW BEST TOPICS
Microsoft Teams: A new world of opportunities for Dynamics 365 Business Central developers,
storytelling in teams
Integrating: New Virtual Entity capabilities for Common Data Service and Business Central, APIs
pages as Virtual Entities
Performance: Dynamics 365 Business Central Performance Toolkit, partner telemetry
Web Client and Mobile App: more improvements (IOs Android)
Admin Console: Manage multi environments from Admin Console, Company Hub, Tasks
AppSource: Store Secrets in Azure Key
Docker: Changing the way to use Docker

13. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Administration Application
Microsoft Teams
Integration
Modern Client
Improvements
Seamless Service Cloud Migration Tools
PILLARS
Power Platforms
Integration
Modern
Development Tools

14. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Administration
• Support for an unlimited number of production and sandbox environments
• Restoring environments to a point in time in the past
• Log of admin operations in the Business Central admin center
• Improved overview and management of the available database and file capacity
• Manage irreversible features
• Service-to-service authentication for Automation APIs
• Speed up low-level code calculations
• Disable Integration Records and Integration Management
• Support for additional Azure AD roles for the customer admins to access Business
Central admin center

15. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Application
• Easier to choose the right Role Center
• Business Central Company Hub
• VAT group reporting
• Consolidation file format support for Dynamics 365 Finance
• Track packages from more types of sales documents
• Check financial journals in background
• Use the copy journal function on Posted General Journals and control date for
reversing entries in Recurring General Journals
• Enhanced email capabilities
• Bank reconciliation improvements

16. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Microsoft Teams
Integration
• Business Central in Microsoft Teams
• Authentication changes for deploying Outlook Add-in
MY DEMO HERE
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https://youtu.be/yTyhGDdLuM8

17. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Seamless Service
• Renaming environments in the Business Central admin center
• Data audit system fields are added to every table
• Debug extension installation and upgrade code
• Attach to user session when debugging
• Developers can emit telemetry to Application Insights from AL code
• Extension publishers can get telemetry in Azure Application Insights
• Signal about long-running AL execution added to telemetry for partners
• Signal from web service key authentication added to Application Insights
telemetry for partners .. And other signals...
• Ability for developers and end users to override the system setting for
maximum time a report can run

18. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Modern Client
Improvements
• Role Centers open faster
• Update the navigation experience terminology to improve usability
• Updates to page styling
• Pages with FactBoxes are more responsive
• Report request page can open multiple previews
• Changes to the action bar in lookup dialog boxes
• Improved accessibility for low-vision users
• Access multiple production or sandbox environments from the mobile apps
• Unblock multifactor authentication for mobile apps

19. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Cloud Migration Tools
• Continued enhancements for migrating from Dynamics GP to Business Central
• Historical data migration from Dynamics GP to Azure Data Lake
• Migrate from Business Central 14.x on-premises to Business Central 16.x online
• Migrate from Business Central 15.x on-premises to Business Central 16.x online

20. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Power Platforms
Integration
• Common Data Service virtual entities
• Integrate Business Central and Common Data Service with fewer
synchronization conflicts
• Support for latest Microsoft Dynamics 365 SDKl

21. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Modern
Development Tools
• AppSource apps can store their secrets in Azure Key Vault
• Code documentation comments
• Delete extension data
• Suppress AL warnings
• Obsolete implicit and explicit use of 'with'
• Code region compiler directive
• Business Central Performance Toolkit
• Aligning license checks between sandbox and production environments
• Snapshots – troubleshooting in production environments

22. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Microsoft BC Video: on Dynamic 365 Channel

23. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Business Central Virtual Launch Event
https://robertostefanettinavblog.com/2020/10/07/business-central-2020-wave2-launch-virtual-event-october-21-free-to-attend/
October 21, 2020 at 11:00 ET | 17:00 CEST | 22:00 ICT
With this virtual event Business Central 2020 Wave2 will be officially presented,
there are many news.

24. Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Testing Some Features
https://robertostefanettinavblog.com/2020/09/12/busin
ess-central-2020-wave-2-preview-testing-some-new-
features/

25. RobertoStefanetti, MVPBusinessApplications
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Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2