As part of Microsoft’s 2025 update cadence, the 10.0.45 major release for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (F&O) introduces a wide array of new capabilities, optimizations, and platform shifts across modules. Whether you’re an IT owner, finance analyst, or supply chain leader, this release contains important functionality to be aware of — some optional, some mandatory, and others now turned on by default.
This blog breaks down the most important changes so your team can get ahead of the curve. We’ve grouped the information using the same four categories Microsoft uses in their release documentation shown below.
- Finance: What’s new or changed in Dynamics 365 Finance 10.0.45
- Supply Chain Management: What’s new or changed in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management 10.0.45
- Human Resources: What’s new or changed in Dynamics 365 Human Resources 10.0.45
- Commerce: What’s new or changed in Dynamics 365 Commerce 10.0.45
Before we dive in, here’s a quick look at the release timeline.
Key Dates – 10.0.45 Release Schedule
- July 28, 2025: Preview becomes available (Second major release of 2025)
- August 8, 2025: Last day to apply the preview update
- September 12, 2025: General availability for manual application
- October 3, 2025: First auto-update window opens
- October 31, 2025: Second auto-update window opens
To understand how this aligns with Microsoft’s ongoing update strategy, check out TestMart’s 2025 Guide to Staying Ahead of F&O Updates or Microsoft’s targeted release schedule.
Features Included in This Release
Finance
- Customer invoice logging framework (Preview): Enables lifecycle logging for invoices, improving traceability in the Customer invoice workspace.
- Asset Leasing: Adds workflow for lease impairment, mandatory journal descriptions, and auto-posting on lease termination.
- Cash and Bank Management: Auto-matches vendor accounts via IBAN and optimizes auto-settlement performance.
- Electronic Reporting (ER): Includes in-app PDF conversion, enhanced label access, batch import/export options, and several performance-focused runtime features.
- Fixed Assets: Adds centralized proposal creation, intercompany asset transfer (Preview), and unified catch-up depreciation posting.
- General Ledger: Reverses out-of-balance ledger settlements and detects dimension variability (via flight).
- Globalization Studio: Adds Dataverse repositories, JSON import/export, and Azure Key Vault integration.
- Subscription Billing: Introduces backfilled journal links and preview COGS adjustment features.
Supply Chain Management
- Inventory & Warehouse: Acceptance sampling (Preview), container packing visibility, and Warehouse App V4 enablement.
- Production Control: MES license plate printing (enabled by MES setup), dispensing improvements, and tracked component enhancements.
- Sales & Marketing: Adds support for external item identifiers on sales orders.
- Master Planning: Introduces lean manufacturing, catch weight, and step consumption integration (Preview).
- Message Processor: Automates cleanup of processed and canceled messages.
- Product Info Management: Foreign trade parameters enabled globally.
- Preview to GA Transition: Features like Approved Customer Lists, Advanced Quality Management, and foreign trade parameter configuration are now generally available.
Commerce
- Store Commerce Offline for iOS & Android (Preview): Adds offline support, SQLite integration, a new SDK, and upgraded database functionality for Store Commerce on mobile platforms.
Human Resources
- Streamlined Employee Entry: Becomes mandatory with a new parameter available to disable it.
- Recruiting Add-On: Now in public preview, expected to reach GA within this release.
Feature Enhancements in This Release
Finance
- Accounts Receivable: Fixes incorrect totals on posted invoice journals and adds invoice details to My Cases.
- Cash and Bank Management: Improves reconciliation logic and account matching.
- Credit and Collections: Enhances customer interest notes and email template variable support.
- Fixed Assets: Refactors asset split logic to remove dependency on localized labels.
- General Ledger: Adds audit trail columns and improves support for partial ledger settlements.
- Subscription Billing: Enhances billing termination logic to reuse original exchange rates for credit notes.
Supply Chain Management
- Procurement:
- Calculate earliest confirmed receipt date for vendor responses.
- Remove vendors from RFQs after bids have been sent or received.
- Production Control:
- Improves decimal precision for numpad input on production floor interface.
- Shared AP/AR:
- Enables multiple batch tasks for rebate processing.
Features Turned On by Default
Finance
- Accounts Receivable: Custom search, penny difference voucher support, free text invoice tag support.
- Cash and Bank Management: Expanded bank reconciliation settings, including prepayment logic and exchange rate usage.
- Credit and Collections: Separate accounts for credit notes (Mandatory).
- Fixed Assets: Numerous features including automated depreciation split logic and prevention of asset creation via project PO (some Mandatory).
- Tax: Tax exemption defaults, batch sync, and external provider support (some Mandatory).
Supply Chain Management
- Asset Management: Print work order attachments, role-based lifecycle access, forecast hour adjustments.
- Inventory & Warehouse: Inventory Visibility integrations, dimension history cleanup, reservation offsets, soft reservation on SO lines.
- Production Control: Streamlined registration for indirect activities, validation logic for expiration, and job progress tracking.
- Sales & Marketing: Product bundle journal integration and performance optimizations.
- Shared AP/AR: Workflow resubmission, write-off logic, rebate consolidation, and e-invoice export channels.
Human Resources
Duplicate ID Prevention and Streamlined Employee Entry are both Mandatory by default.
Features Removed from Feature Management
Finance
- ER format lookups, Globalization Studio features, and legacy ER PDF conversion replaced by in-app methods.
- Multiple obsolete or localized AR features (e.g., Lithuania VAT label) removed.
- Tax-related feature controls such as Czech zero-amount logic and payment report generation are now default.
Supply Chain Management
- A range of previously feature-managed modules—including procurement workflows, cost logic, production control toggles, and inventory behavior filters—have been removed or consolidated.
Final Thoughts
The 10.0.45 release continues Microsoft’s focus on performance, automation, and simplification — with the most impactful changes landing in Finance and Supply Chain Management. From updates to bank reconciliation, Electronic Reporting, and subscription billing in Finance to new capabilities in production, inventory, and warehouse management in Supply Chain, this release brings valuable improvements across core operational areas.
We recommend reviewing your organization’s Feature management workspace to see which updates require manual enablement and aligning with your internal change calendar before the October auto-update window.
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