It’s already that time of the year again, the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2023 Release Wave 1 plans have just been released!
The 2023 release wave 1 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations is focused on improving the development, administration, and user experiences by removing barriers, tightening integrations, and enhancing cross-platform capabilities. This release will bring a range of new features and capabilities that will help improve the performance of the platform and enhance the overall experience for developers, administrators, and end-users.
The features described here are planned to be delivered from April to September 2023.
2023 Release wave 1: Cross-Application Features
The features described here will be available for ALL the Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations apps, including Finance, Supply Chain Management, Human Resources,
Commerce, and Project Operations.
Existing features
First, I will start with the list of existing features that will be mandatory or automatically enabled starting on the version 10.0.32.
These features were introduced in the 2022 release wave 1 plan and 2022 release wave 2 plan.
Mandatory features with the 10.0.32 release
Mandatory features will be automatically enabled in all your environments when 10.0.32 arrives.
- Saved views support for dialogs
- Allow queries to be saved to views on Task Single and Task Double pages
- Allow users to select and change tile sizes
- Streamline tabbing behavior in full-page forms
- Optimize loading of Action center notifications
Enabled-by-default features with the 10.0.32 release
Enabled-by-default features will be automatically enabled on new environments, but not the ones that are already deployed. If you deploy a new environment on the 10.0.32 version they will be enabled, if you update an existing environment to the 10.0.32 version they won’t.
- Saved views support for workspaces
- Enable system notification management
- Extended grid aggregation capabilities
- Saved views performance enhancement
One Dynamics One Platform
One of the main features of this release, and it’s something that is becoming a norm for the F&O release notes, is One Dynamics One Platform, which focuses on the convergence plans of Finance and Operations Apps with Microsoft Power Platform. This will enable customers to take full advantage of Power Platform with each Finance and Operations environment and help improve end-user productivity and enhance the overall user experience.
Let’s see what’s waiting for us in 2023 in the cross apps section.
Improve performance from apps and integrations built on F&O virtual tables
Link to Learn: Improve virtual table perfomance
Public preview: not available
General availability: June 2023
This feature will offer us an improved latency in API responses between Dataverse and the F&O platform. All integrations that use the F&O virtual tables on Dataverse will perform better.
Ensure consistency in service requests between Finance and Operations apps and Microsoft Dataverse
Link to Learn: Ensure consistency in service requests
Public preview: February 2023
General availability: June 2023
If you’re a member of the Dynamics 365 Insider Program, you’ve probably heard about One Transaction.
One Transaction will allow X++ developers to have X++ code and calls to Dataverse inside a single transaction, thanks to the IOrganizationService API. This will enable commits and rollbacks to be consistent between F&O and Dataverse. And this will also work with transactions originating in Dataverse!
Simplify finance and operations apps privileged access to Microsoft Dataverse
Link to Learn: Simplify access to Dataverse by Finance and Operations apps
Public preview: February 2023
General availability: June 2023
More IOrganizationService API. In this case to simplify the process of granting access to the IOrganizationService API for Finance and Operations apps. The administrator of the Dataverse environment will be able to give these apps administrative access to send requests to the API, which is connected to the Dataverse environment via the Microsoft Power Platform integration.
Enable background jobs in Dataverse of One Batch
Link to Learn: Enable background jobs in Dataverse of One Batch
Public preview: June 2023
General availability: July 2023
This will be the phase 2 of the feature (this was phase 1) will prepare the platform for enabling Finance and Operations customers to use the Background job capabilities in Dataverse.
Power automate Flows to execute batch jobs, that’ll be nice to see.
Use IP-based cookie binding in finance and operations apps to block cookie replay attacks
Link to Learn: Block cookie replay attacks with IP-based cookie binding
Public preview: May 2023
General availability: July 2023
This is a security feature, maybe it looks like it has nothing to do with the Uno project or One Dynamics One Platform, but it has. It’s always nice to have better security features for the ERP, in this case to prevent cookie replay attacks, something that’s already available for Dataverse.
A cookie replay attack is done by getting an auhtentication cookie or token that has been issued by a server to your browser. Somebody could use that to impersonate you and gain access to the system.
The feature will help prevent this by offering an option to add the IP address of your computer with that cookie to block the access to F&O apps.
And that’s all regarding the new cross apps features. There’s also many cool other features in the Finance and SCM spaces, like data archival and purging, invoice automation or the tax rate API. If you want to learn more about all of them, you can go to the Learn page of 2023 release wave 1 plan.
Dataverse, dataverse, dataverse, dataverse
(Read it with the same rythm as Developers, developers, developers, developers)
As I said earlier, all the new platform features point to the same direction: Dataverse.
The 2023 release wave 1 plan for Finance and Operations apps includes the One Dynamics One Platform project, which aims to converge the Finance and Operations apps with Microsoft Power Platform and Dataverse.
This will enable customers to take full advantage of Power Platform with each Finance and Operations environment, helping to improve end-user productivity and enhance the overall user and admin experience.
