Thursday, April 30, 2020

Updates to Dynamics 365 release schedule, unified interface transition and team member license enforcement

As outlined in Our commitment to customers help ensure business continuity Microsoft has delayed some of the mandatory upgrades and changes to existing Dynamics 365 environments - below a short overview:
  • Existing Dynamics 365 environments will receive the Wave 2020 update one month later starting beginning of May . See Dynamics 365 release schedule for the exact dates for your geo.
  • Deprecation of the legacy web client and the mandatory transition to the Unified Interface is postponed from October 1th to December 1th 2020.
  • Deprecation of the Dynamics 365 for Outlook (Outlook COM add-in) is scheduled for October 2020 - see The future of Outlook integration for more details
  • Technical enforcement for Dynamics 365 Team Members licenses purchased or transitioned after October 1, 2018 will come into effect on January 31, 2021 (extended from September 30, 2020 - initially planned for April 1, 2020). 

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