Plan and prepare for Dynamics 365 Project Operations in 2025 release wave 1

Overview

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations connects your sales, resourcing, project management, and finance teams in one application. With Project Operations, your teams can win more deals, accelerate delivery, empower employees, and maximize profitability. The application gives you the visibility, collaboration, and agility you need across the project lifecycle to drive success for project-centric businesses. Powered by Microsoft Power Platform, customers get an unmatched set of capabilities that enable everyone to analyze, act, and automate across their organization. With Project Operations, you can transform your services business from the ground up. It's everything you need to run your project operations, from deal management to financials, all in one application.

For 2025 release wave 1, we deliver functionally rich experiences in the following areas:

• Improvements to the expense management experiences on mobile and browser.
• Improvements to the Time entry experiences on mobile devices and browsers.
• Improvements in project planning with support for WBS templates and copy experiences.
• Usability improvements in billing backlog review, pro forma invoice review, approval, and contract management experiences.
• Improved and enhanced support for stocked items on the modern architecture.
• Support for discounts and fees on the modern architecture.
• Continued investment in the ability to migrate from project management and accounting (PMA) to the modern architecture of Project Operations.
• Flexibility in financial dimensions, revenue recognition based on contract line, and support for creating project G/L journals on the modern architecture.

In addition to the preceding functional and usability investments, this release includes investments in extensibility, reliability, and performance in the following areas:

• Support for larger invoices in the modern architecture that leverage async dual-write.
• Extensibility patterns for additional fields in invoice summary on the modern architecture.
• Consistent paradigms for time zone-agnostic date concepts where applicable.

Updates to Dynamics 365 Project Operations 2025 release wave 1

Investment areas

Copilot in Project Operations
With each release wave, AI and automation investments through Copilot empower consultants, sales personnel, project managers, resource managers, and project accountants in Dynamics 365 Project Operations by providing intelligent, natural-language interactions. These enhancements go beyond business applications to productivity tools like Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Excel, so employees can use the tools where they're most productive. Copilot features in Project Operations streamline and speed up workflows from the frontline to the back office, helping service delivery organizations optimize operational efficiency.

Optimize Project Operations
In one application, Dynamics 365 Project Operations connects your sales, resourcing, project management, and finance teams so they can win more deals, accelerate delivery, empower employees, and maximize profitability. Project Operations continues to invest in capabilities that improve usability, performance, and scale across key areas of the product, such as project planning, invoicing, time entry, and core transaction processing flows.

To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Dynamics 365 Project Operations below:

For application administrators

User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and enables successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.

Features that must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.

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