ONE

PREDICTABLE CONTINUOUS

Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations

Microsoft managedcontinuous updates

Supports continuous updates:

No more expensive upgrades!

Empower customers to improve productivity without

impeding upgradability

Makes it much easier for ISVs to innovate along side

Microsoft

Improves supportability and serviceability

Reduced implementation costs for no-code

personalization and customizations

Faster implementations and improved quality

Leading to

Embedded

PowerApps

Embedded

PowerBI

Microsoft

Flow

Custom

Fields

Low/No code experience foradaptability

EXTENSIBILITY POINTS

Full adaptability with 1000+ developer extension points

ISVs and pro developers End users (Citizen developers, Power users)

Customer engagement apps Dynamics 365 for Sales

Dynamics 365 for Marketing

Dynamics 365 for Customer Service

Dynamics 365 for Field Service

Dynamics 365 for Project Service Automation

Unified operations apps Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

Dynamics 365 for Retail

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Ensure quality

• Backward compatible

• Ring based validations and release

• Customer release validation program (RVP)

• 1000+ extension points

• Update UAT followed by Production

• Cumulative Service Updates

Customer in control

• Customer configured update window

• Default monthly | Pause up to 3 months

• Opt-in to enable new features

• Programs to get early access to builds

• 12 month deprecation notice

• 30 min downtime → 0 downtime in 2019

• Regression testing & data task testing tool

• Update impact analyzer

Safe Deployment PracticeSeries of progressive validation to ensure quality

Microsoft

• Extensive validation

• Compatibility checker

• 100+ customer release validation

program (RVP)

Targeted release

• Preview early access program (PEAP)

• Preview Builds

Standard release

• Monthly predictability

• Customer controlled patching window

• UAT followed by production on consecutive weeks

Ring 0 Ring 1 Ring 2 Ring 3 Ring 4

FeatureTeams

Finance andOperations Team

RVP

Targeted releasePEAP

[Preview}

First releaseCEAP

[Production]

Standard release(GA)

First release

• Customer Early Access Program (CEAP)

• Production Ready

ONE-V update experience

Onboard

(1 time)

Configure a weekend

for updates.

Configure

environments for

updates.

Sign up for First

release programs.

Notice

(monthly)

Upcoming notifications

made available in LCS.

Check release notes

and What’s New to

know what’s included

in the update.

Notifications sent 5

days in advance.

Execute

(monthly)

Tile to self-update

to the latest.

Early-update available

through First release

programs.

Auto-update by

Microsoft for the

configured schedule.

Validate

(optional)

Impact analyzer to

assess release impact.

Data task automation

available to test

integrations

No code test

automation tool.

Email notifications sent:

1) 5 days prior to patching sandbox.

2) 5 days prior to patching production.

3) On success/failure of the update

Microsoft Confidential

Record TestsSave to Business

Process Modeler

Manage/Distribute

BPM library

Update parameters

and dataExecute

Report and

Investigate in VSTS

Select BPM librarySynchronize to VSTS,

Create Test Plan

Configure

Parameters and Data

Author and distribute

Configure test plans

Execute test automation

Sign up to be part for the Partner Early Access Preview (PEAP) program. https://experience.dynamics.com (Insider Program)

Partners and customers can sign up to be part of one of the First Release programs to

get early access to the monthly service update

https://experience.dynamics.com (Insider Program)

Identify business process flows for regression

automation.

If on a version prior to 8.0, file extensibility requests for

pending extension APIs.

If you already using extensions or have no customizations, move

to 8.1 since ONE version starts 8.1 onwards.

Stay up to date on the features we are releasing through the Release

notes and LCS blog.

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/2018/10/18/erp-modernization-one-version-for-all-customers/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/fin-and-ops/get-

started/one-version

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-

itpro/migration-upgrade/versions-update-policy?toc=/fin-and-ops/toc.json

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/lifecycle-services/using-

task-guides-and-bpm-to-create-user-acceptance-tests

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/lifecycle-services/using-

task-guides-and-bpm-to-create-user-acceptance-tests#execute-your-tests

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/lcs/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/