Plan and prepare for Dynamics 365 Human Resources in 2025 release wave 2

Overview

Dynamics 365 Human Resources is a comprehensive HR solution that helps organizations manage the entire hire-to-retire lifecycle for employees. In release wave 2025 wave 2, we enhance capabilities by avoiding duplication through Microsoft Entra ID integration and by adding integration with Viva Connections.

By adding agent capabilities to the onboarding process, HR managers and new hires get guided experiences and automation for the many steps and complexities in onboarding. Also, job posting and interviewing is simpler with job description generation and interview assistance through our recruiter assist agent capabilities.

Updates to Dynamics 365 Human Resources 2025 release wave 2

Investment areas

Copilot in Dynamics 365 Human Resources
Each release wave brings new AI and automation investments that empower employees, HR managers, administrators, and recruiting agents with intelligent, natural-language interactions. These enhancements go beyond business applications to include productivity tools like Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Excel, so employees can use them where they're most productive. Copilot features in Human Resources streamline and speed up workflows, optimizing operational efficiencies from the frontline of employee experiences to the human resources back office.

Optimize human resource operations
Each new release wave of the Dynamics 365 Human Resources application brings enhancements that help corporations and organizations optimize their human resource operations. These enhancements cover personnel management, compensation, benefits, and performance management. Improvements in recruiting operations, skills and competency management, and succession management bring efficiencies to the hire-to-retire lifecycle. Investments in core employee experiences around leave and absence, learning, and training management bring core HR data and processes to meet employees where they are.

To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Dynamics 365 Human Resources 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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