Announcement: Business Central v16.5 is out along with September 2020 Cumulative Updates

Business Central v16.5 is out! Update 16.5 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 (Application 16.5.15.953 + Platform 16.5.15941)

For Release Plan visit HERE!!

For information on the previous release HERE!!

Business Value:

1.Upgradation for Customer:

For New Customers, by default, the environments will be from v16.5. For existing Customers, Business Central v16.4 will be automatically upgraded to v16.5.

2. Previous Resolved Issues:

ID	Title	Functional Area
369662	“Failed to acquire an access token" error message when you try to setup any Oauth2 integration.	Integration

Workaround:

 Go to nuget.org and download the required package by clicking "Download package": https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Identity.Client/4.14.0.

1. Extract the contents.
2. Copy the contents from .\microsoft.identity.client.4.14.0\lib\net45\* to the NST binaries location.
3. Restart the NST.

3. Platform Hotfixes:

ID	Title
365943	Partner licenses do not grant access for device users.
366255	Improve the upgrade step to ensure that primary keys for companion tables are correct.
360043	The Role ID field is truncated when you import XML permission sets.
365996	The ShowAsTree property on a TreeView page does not work if the first field is not visible.
368795	When you change the selected row in a list, the page might scroll unexpectedly.

4. Application Hotfixes:

ID	Title	Functional Area
368262	The security filter is not working as expected after you deploy hotfixes.	Administration
366225	"The Credit Transfer Entry already exists. Identification fields and values: Credit Transfer Register No.='X',Entry No.='Y'" error message displays when you export the electronical payment file.	Cash Management
364194	When you post a new prepayment invoice after using the VAT Rate Change function, an incorrect VAT amount is registered for the prepayment invoice.	Finance
364425	After a VAT rate change, a VAT entry from a sales order with prepayments displays the new VAT Product Posting Group table, but the VAT amount is incorrect.	Finance
365394	Setting the No. Series Lines table to Allow Gaps in No. Series automatically inserts an extra digit in the Last No. Used field results in an incorrect update to the data.	Finance
366966	The Customer No. field is displayed in the sales history FactBox while the Vendor No. field is not displayed in the purchase history in documents, such as orders.	Finance
367124	The customer name should not be updated or replaced when there is no name associated with the VAT Registration No. field.	Finance
367299	In vendor ledger entries, it is possible to change the value in the Exported to Payment File field from false to true manually.	Finance
368252	After the VAT Rate Change, a VAT entry from a prepayment credit memo displays the new VAT Product Posting Group table, but the correct VAT amount that is calculated based on the old VAT Product Posting Group table.	Finance
368608	Numbering in the purchase credit memo behaves differently than in the purchase invoice.	Finance
368884	The Inbound Transfer of an average cost item is revalued, thus contributes to its own cost indirectly.	Finance
369828	The account schedules no longer successfully update Excel Template files by using the Export to Excel function.	Finance
365815	Unreal gain and unreal loss are not posted correctly.	Finance
364722	When you deal with a service order and transfer by using the order planning and the Reserve option, the Reservation status is set to tracking instead of reservation.	Inventory
365381	"The following C/AL functions are limited during write transactions because one or more tables will be locked" error message displays when you select an assembly item on a sales order.	Inventory
366904	Changed receipt date on an already shipped transfer order line is not reflected on the record, which causes an inaccurate receipt date information on the Available - Transfer Lines page.	Inventory
367382	The Outbound Transfer is not cost adjusted while the Inbound Transfer, which is split into several entries due to multiple cost relations, is a correctly cost adjusted FIFO item.	Inventory
368548	The transfer order variant code is cleared out if you change the Direct Transfer flag.	Inventory
365390	The assembly order is not created when an assemble-to-order item is pulled in via the Select Items option on a sales order.	Inventory
365038	Bin code is not transferred to the sales invoice created from the job planning line.	Jobs
366066	Lines with the Type = Text setting in Jobs Planning lines already invoiced can be changed to other type and invoiced again.	Jobs
364326	When you open the Routing page, the Prod. Order Line Bin Code field is updated with the bin code from the work center instead of maintaining the bin code from the header.	Manufacturing
364820	The Allocated Time field in the Prod. Order Capacity report does need to be consistent with the Needed Time field after you post the negative Run Time field.	Manufacturing
365635	The Segment Description field is not populated in the opportunity card.	Marketing
364711	"Quantity Received must be equal to '0'" error message displays after you post a purchase order where the Blanket Order Line No. field is blank even if the Blanket Order No. field is filled.	Purchase
364920	"Select a dimension value code for the dimension code customer group for Item : 1000, Create PO from SO" error message displays when a dimension used in the Requisition line.	Purchase
365286	When you deal with the requisition worksheet and set the Print Order option to yes, only the order related to the last worksheet line is printed.	Purchase
363058	The recurring purchase lines do not work properly when a currency code is defined.	Purchase
363906	Over-Receipt tolerance is not working when the Receive field is blank in the purchase order.	Purchase
364994	The Customer/Item Sales report automatically cancels if no Customer Ledger entries are present.	Sales
365014	Using Available to Promise (ATP) leads to incorrect earliest shipment date when you deal with sales orders and production orders.	Sales
365188	An unexpected unit price in the Price List report for an item without specific sales price list lines.	Sales
365580	"The record in table Sales Line already exists. Identification fields and values: Document Type='Order',Document No.='X',Line No.='X'" error message displays when you convert a sales quote in a sales order with the recurring sales lines defined.	Sales
365628	Too many modifications of requisition lines.	Sales
366379	The sales quote is not archived if you convert it into a sales invoice and you set the Archive Quote field to True in the Sales & Receivables Setup.	Sales
366892	The Qty. to Receive value entered on a line in a purchase order is not saved in the Web client when you tab out of the field.	Sales
366939	The Costs and Profit fields in the customer card is incorrectly reflected for resource in a service order.	Sales
365495	When you deal with the special price and line discount, the sales return order gets unit price updated while changing quantity, but the discount keeps old percentage.	Sales
367137	The Recipient Bank Account field should be visible and editable on the Customer Ledger Entry page.	Sales
364320	The total available quantity with the specific lot reservations and warehouse shipments/picks are not correct.	Warehouse
365391	"Lot No. xxx is not available on inventory or it has already been reserved for another document." Error message displays when you register a pick.	Warehouse

5. Local Application Hotfixes:

APAC

ID	Title	Functional Area
364447	The job ledger entries are not created when you post a sales invoice created from the job planning line in the APAC version.	Jobs

AT - Austria

ID	Title	Functional Area
366250	New changes are in the VAT statement on July 1st, 2020 in the Austrian version.	Finance

BE - Belgium

ID	Title	Functional Area
368203	Incorrect statement amounts in the CODA Statement Line in the Belgian version.	Finance
364447	The job ledger entries are not created when you post a sales invoice created from the job planning line in the Belgian version.	Jobs

CZ - Czech

ID	Title	Functional Area
364447	The job ledger entries are not created when you post a sales invoice created from the job planning line in the Czech version.	Jobs
365003	Error message displays when you try to create an advance letter in the Czech version.	Sales

DK - Denmark

ID	Title	Functional Area
366715	Information from the Sell-to Contact No. field is not well retrieved in the sales invoice when you have a Contact No. field with the same Customer No. field of the sales invoice but related with other Customer No. fields in the Danish version.	Sales

ES - Spain

ID	Title	Functional Area
363340	"Bill XXX cannot be applied since it is included in a posted bill group" error message displays if you try to apply a bill already included in a posted bill group into a credit memo in the Spanish version.	Finance
368891	It is not possible to change the payment method in customer and vender ledger entries even if the document is not linked to the Cartera module in the Spanish version.	Sales

IT - Italy

ID	Title	Functional Area
366837	If you set the VAT period as Quarter, the previous Period Input VAT value is not included in the Periodic VAT Payment Communication report in the Italian version.	Finance
366841	On posting a payment for two open vendor ledger entries created from one invoice, incorrect VAT entries are created in the Italian version.	Finance
365069	If a sales invoice is issued for a customer classified as an individual person, the XML file of the invoice is not correct in the Italian version.	Finance
364608	An error message about PrezzoTotale calculation displays when the E-invoicing is not validated in the Italian version.	Sales

MX - Mexico

ID	Title	Functional Area
365830	The XML file for electronic invoicing is missing attributes, which causes infringement to SAT fiscal laws in the Mexican version.	Administration
367157	When a digitally signed invoice has one or more related credit memos, the code does not display the digital signature ID of the related invoices while you download the XML file in the Mexican version.	Sales

NA - North America

ID	Title	Functional Area
367158	Error message displays in the Drop Shipment report when the Item Description field has more than 30 characters in the North American version.	Administration
367481	The DIOT report is now working correctly in the North American version.	Finance
367615	The Use Stockkeeping Unit option is missing from the Purchase Advice page in the North American version.	Purchase

UK - United Kingdom

ID	Title	Functional Area
365639	The <ContactName> node is exported without data if you export the EC Sales List report in the XML file in the British version.	Finance

Local regulatory features

NL - Netherlands

ID	Title	Functional Area
367107	It is possible to see the XML request of the ICP declaration before submission in the Dutch version.	Financial Management
365968	The SEPA Credit Transfer payment export should work without using the Telebanking module in the Dutch version.	Financial Management

NO - Norway

ID	Title	Functional Area
361299	Improve the SAF-T performance in the Norwegian version.	Financial Management

Download Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central v16.5 HERE!

NOTE:

It’s time to switch your Dynamics 365 Business Central browser to Microsoft Edge
On April 2, 2021, Microsoft will remove Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft Edge Legacy browsers from the list of supported browsers for the Business Central modern clients. Read the details, how it applies to you, and actions to take here.

Leveraging IoT data in Dynamics 365 Business Central
Make sure to read the blog about getting started with leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) data in Dynamics 365 Business Central using services from Microsoft Azure is easier than you may think.

Support for an unlimited number of production and sandbox environments
With the 2020 release wave 2 (October), we're introducing the ability for customers to buy additional Business Central production environments to expand their business. More environments will open up new opportunities like creating more business branches, moving into more countries, or expanding within their current country, read more here.

Running a Container-Based Development Environment

From 16.4 and onwards Microsoft will stop producing docker images and instead publish builds as artifacts, which can be used together with the generic Docker image to run the image you want. Read more here.    

Conclusion:

In this blog, I'm trying to explain what all new features are expected as part of the upgrade and how we can upgrade Business Central to v16.5.