Top Dynamics 365 News of 2025
The year is coming to a close. With 2025 about to wrap up, it’s time to take a look back at the top Dynamics 365 news of the year.
New license enforcement coming to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations apps
At the end of March, Microsoft alerted the Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations customer base that the company would begin enforcing license management for its ERP-focused applications later in the year. “Beginning August 30th, users will require an assigned license to access the Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations applications. We are giving customers time to prepare with tools and training to support any action needed,” stated Microsoft VP Georg Glantschnig, in a blog post.
See also: Microsoft’s License Enforcement for D365 Finance & SCM: What Customers Need to Do Now
FabCon 2025 Day 1: Microsoft pushes Fabric’s reach, roadmap, and key alliances
At the FabCon 2025 day 1 keynote, presenters explained where Fabric data agents fit into the company’s broader AI vision, along with updates on data source mirroring, alliances, growth stats, and more. Agents built in Fabric will become more visible in Microsoft 365 Copilot, suggesting Fabric will have an increasing role to play in Microsoft’s AI story.
Fabric data agents can reason over and synthesize data in OneLake. A public preview is launching that allows these agents to be used in Azure AI Agent Service by AI creators.
See also: FabCon 2025: Microsoft expands data agent capabilities, reveals OneLake security
Microsoft updates Dataverse capacity and entitlements for Dynamics 365, Power Platform
Microsoft announced increases to the default Dataverse storage capacity that customers will get for most Dynamics 365 apps and Power Platform services.
The change went into effect on December 1, 2025 and does not include D365 Business Central. For other Dynamics 365 ERP applications, Dataverse and storage “will now be combined into a shared pool per tenant,” according to a new message in the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Dataverse database and file entitlements vary by product, and the increases in December also appear to have varied. In an analysis of the change, Jukka Niiranen noted increases in Dataverse database capacity between 39 percent and 200 percent, with similar increases for file storage. Dataverse database storage is notoriously expensive at $40 per GB per month, making its cost a serious consideration for app development, integrations scenarios, and data warehousing architectures.
More Microsoft 365 Copilot users will get access to sales, service, and finance role-based AI
In September, Microsoft announced that it would make the Microsoft 365 Copilot role-based AI solutions for sales, service, and finance professionals available via the Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Store in October 2025. These copilots have existed as standalone tools with an additional $20 per user per month cost above the Microsoft 365 Copilot base price of $30.
The role-based solutions became available at no cost to all Microsoft 365 Copilot customers starting in mid-October, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed. And there are no changes to functionality for existing role-based Copilot customers.
Fast Fabric for Dynamics 365 F&O and Power BI reaching public preview by November: Microsoft
Fast Fabric, a “near real-time sync” between Microsoft Fabric and Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations application entered preview in mid-October, Microsoft announced. “We’re committed to making data integration between Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Fabric faster, simpler, and more secure,” wrote Manas Maheshwari, whose latest title on LinkedIn is head of product for AI agents.
The new Dataverse to Fabric integration approach claims to reduce sync times to less than 15 minutes in most cases. Data analysts working in Power BI will then be able to take advantage of that more accurate data.
To realize its ambitious AI goals for ERP, Microsoft will need to continue strengthening core software features that improve data and processes. In Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, several key enhancements and new features in 2025 release waves 1 and 2 aimed to improve data quality and add new native capabilities and integrations for key industries.
2025 Wave 1 for D365 SCM includes release 10.0.43, which reached GA in March, and 10.0.44, which has fewer major features set to reach general availability on June 6. Version 10.0.45 was slated to GA in 2025 Wave 2.
Microsoft merges M365 and Dynamics 365 partner priorities with AI Business Solutions in FY26
Microsoft’s partner go-to-market approach in FY26 will focus on three broad solution areas for cloud, security, and core solutions like Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365, with AI priorities across them all.
Dynamics 365 and Microsoft 365 now fall under the unified AI Business Solutions area, the company revealed at July’s MCAPS Start for Partners digital event. The company’s other solution areas in FY26 are Cloud & AI Platform and Security.
AI Agent and Copilot Summit 2025: Microsoft, partners focus on agent-led scenarios
At least 2.1 million users of Microsoft Business Applications are engaging with Copilots on a monthly basis, as of March, according to the company. And as product leaders make the case for even broader adoption of pre-built Copilots and AI agents, they will be looking to build momentum with both customers and partners.
Lots of attention at the AI Agent and Copilot Summit NA 2025 event went into helping Microsoft customers understand better ways to build business use cases and investment plans around AI. Partners, Microsoft, and early-adopter customers shared perspectives on how technology like Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry can be deployed and how it will impact different job functions.
Microsoft plans Copilot Studio ‘computer use’ for enhanced RPA scenarios
In April, Microsoft announced plans to introduce “computer use” to Copilot Studio, the company’s SaaS AI agent building solution. Like the better-known class of tools known as robotic process automation (RPA), computer use with Copilot Studio will allow agents to do what RPA does: interact with on-screen graphical user interfaces as if it was a human user, but in a repetitive, automated way.
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