Dynamics Update

About Dynamics Update

Dynamics Update is a podcast with the main focus of summarizing Microsoft's monthly releases for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations and the One Version strategy. We blend that with some special episodes containing interviews and event coverage. Guiding you through the content is Gustav Sundblad and Johan Persson, Senior Specialists at Engage Group

Publisher

dynamicsupdate

Category

education · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Oct 2019

Latest episode

4 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

90 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Sept 2026

   10.0.49

   Gustav and Johan are back after the summer break with a look at what's new in 10.0.49. They kick off in finance, where a new preview lets users review and approve automatic bank reconciliation matching results before posting — a welcome way to validate matching rules before trusting them fully. Electronic reporting takes centre stage this episode. Most notably, France's mandatory e-invoicing and e-reporting requirements are now supported, with the France e-reporting capability available from Finance version 10.0.49 — timely for anyone running French legal entities ahead of enforcement. The hosts also highlight two smaller but handy ER additions: new DIV and MOD functions in the ER formula language for integer division and remainder operations, and memory optimizations that reduce peak usage during large ER report executions. On the platform side, Batch job occurrence telemetry adds job-level visibility in Application Insights on top of existing task-level signals, available behind a flight key. Johan also flags a new composite entity for inbound Advanced Shipment Notices, the retirement of Visual Studio 2022 for X++ development in favor of VS 2026, and progress on commerce deployment via PPAC. The episode closes with two notable deprecations: Microsoft will stop supporting the Regression Suite Automation Tool (RSAT) after May 15, 2027, and the Copilot sidecar is being retired in favor of newer agentic integrations. A revamped Supplier Engagement portal, currently in public preview, rounds things out. /Gustav and Johan

2. 

   17 Jul 2026

   The State of BPA and the Analytics MCP

   We're recording our last episode before the Swedish summer holidays, and to close things out we welcome back Jinnie Wong for a return conversation on Business Performance Analytics — this time joined by members of her engineering team, including Yaswant Vishwakarma, who leads the pipeline work, and Wei (Weizhu), who's building the Analytics MCP server. Rishabh Kamra rounds out the crew. A lot has happened since Ginny's last visit. Back then, BPA had just shipped Record-to-Report and Procure-to-Pay and was on the cusp of Order-to-Cash. The data model now spans the entire ERP, with models for supply chain management, project operations, human resources, and commerce rolling out over the coming year. The recurring theme of the episode is that the real magic lives under the hood: BPA's fact tables sit at the transaction level, and the heavy lifting is in the data engineering — star schemas conformed across dimensions, and transform pipelines that scale automatically from a million rows to a hundred million as data volumes grow. Johan makes the case that for anyone who's ever wrestled with hand-built cubes and bespoke star schemas, a shared, downloadable model built on near-identical ERP data is the single biggest win here. We dig into the extensibility story — publishing the BPA model into Microsoft Fabric to build a single unified model — and the features in flight: custom measures (currently in private preview), with custom tables and columns targeted for later this year. The conversation then turns to the Dynamics 365 ERP Analytics MCP server, which sits on top of BPA's semantic model and lets you go from a CFO's question to an answer through natural language, with row-level security enforced so a procurement manager and a sales manager never see each other's data. Wei's analogy lands well: MCP is the cordless vacuum — strip away the UX plumbing and you spend your time on insight, not cord management. We also cover the roadmap many customers are waiting on: more frequent and manual data refreshes (expected around August), the path from the current eight-quarter window toward seven years of history with automatic archival, expanded capacity, and the question everyone asks — financial reporting. There are no immediate plans to deprecate financial reporting, but BPA is the natural next step, with single-source validation as a key advantage. And yes, it remains included in the Dynamics 365 Finance license; you pay for storage and compute, not a separate product. GA for the MCP server is aimed at the second half of the year. If you want to go deeper, Ginny hosts office hours every Tuesday at 8 a.m., a monthly CAB on the last Thursday, and an active Viva Engage community where the team answers questions directly. Read more on Microsoft Learn: Business performance analytics: https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/finance/business-performance-analytics/business-performance… Dynamics 365 ERP Analytics MCP (preview): https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/finance/business-performance-analytics/erp-analytics-mcp-ov… Jinnie Wong - Jinnie Wong, CDMP | LinkedIn Wei Zhu - Wei Z. | LinkedIn Yaswant Vishwakarma - Yaswant Vishwakarma | LinkedIn A big thank you to Ginny, Yashwant, Wei, and the whole BPA team. /Gustav and Johan

3. 

   3 Jul 2026

   Interview: Patrick Mouwen — Commerce, MCP and the API layer underneath

   This special episode comes to you from a sunny morning on the floor at DynamicsMinds*, where Gustav Sundblad and Johan Persson are joined for the second time by Dynamics 365 Principal Architect Patrick Mouwen. A man much of the Commerce community would happily call a "commerce hero" for documenting the Dynamics 365 Commerce CSU APIs so they can be easily understood by everyone using them.Microsoft's Commerce MCP is intentionally scenario-focused today; Patrick showed how customers can extend it in their own tenant with a low-code metadata layer over existing Commerce/F&O APIs — curated, task-level tools, not a 1:1 mapping of APIs to MCP.💡 The key insight:Metadata and architecture matter. By embedding metadata in MCP tools and splitting systems into domain-based servers (e.g., cart, payments), you reduce cost, latency, and hallucinations. He also emphasized using focused sub-agents rather than one large agent.The demos showed real value. From automating quote-to-order flows to fixing master data issues — all while keeping Commerce’s built-in guardrails intact. Problems like incorrect discounts come down to configuration, not AI.Looking ahead, Patrick pointed to Agent 365 for governance and a future of agentic commerce, in which APIs become critical as personal shopping agents act across brands.Thanks again to Patrick for joining us! **Links** - Dynamics 365 Commerce MCP server (preview): https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/commerce/commerce-mcp?WT.mc_id=DX-MVP-5004702 - Expose a REST API in API Management as an MCP server: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/api-management/export-rest-mcp-server?WT.mc_id=DX-MVP-5004702 - AI gateway in Azure API Management: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/api-management/genai-gateway-capabilities?WT.mc_id=DX-MVP-5004702 Patrick Mouwen | LinkedIn

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• Patrick Mouwen
• Jared Hall
• Sherry Zheng

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