D365 Online | Deprecations | Awareness
- October 2020 is the deadline of multiple deprecated Dynamics 365 features and services.
- December 1, 2020 is another milestone to complete transitioning to Unified Interface.
- Review the list provided below for details and preparation. Customers should formulate an action plan accordingly.
Reminder:
Legacy web client is deprecated for D365 Online
On December 1, 2020, the legacy web client will no longer be available.
- Organizations should make the transition to the Unified Interface as soon as possible to take advantage of Microsoft’s ongoing investments in reliability, performance, and functionality.
Suggested actions. What to do?
What happens to my environment after the December 1, 2020 deadline passes?
- If you are still using the legacy web client on December 1, 2020, we will automatically transition your environment/organization to Unified Interface.
- The process will be applied in alignment with a typical update cycle timeframe geographically.
- Customers will receive communication on their tenant transition date.
Additional Helpful resources are available here.
Dynamic 365 for Outlook is deprecated
Effective March 2020, the legacy Dynamics 365 for Outlook (also referred to as Outlook COM add-in) is deprecated.
Until October 1, 2020, Microsoft will continue to provide support, security and other critical updates to the Outlook COM Add-in.
What should you do?
- Customers must transition to the modern Dynamics 365 App for Outlook before October 1, 2020
- After October 2020, End of Support. No more support is offered for Dynamics 365 for Outlook COM Add-in for Dynamics 365 Online.
- Customers are highly recommended to move to Server Side Sync and/or Dynamics App for Outlook.
For further information and steps to make a smooth transition, download Dynamics 365 for Outlook (COM add-in) Playbook
Dynamics 365 Home is deprecated
- Effective March 2020, the home page for Dynamics 365 applications (https://home.dynamics.com) is deprecated.
- After October 1, 2020, the home page for Dynamics 365 applications won’t be available.
- The Microsoft 365 apps page (https://www.office.com/apps) will replace it and provide users with a single page for productivity and business applications.
- Dynamics 365 Home users will see notification about the new locale and recommendation to change browser bookmarks until October 1, 2020.
- After October 1, 2020, users navigating to https://home.dynamics.com will automatically be redirected to https://www.office.com/apps with a business application filter applied.
More information: https://aka.ms/business-apps-discovery-docs
Automatic record creation rules and SLA items in web client are deprecated
- Effective October 01, 2020, the automatic record creation and update rules and service-level agreements (SLAs) have been deprecated in the web client.
For more information, see Deprecations in Customer Service.
Deprecation of Office365 authentication type and OrganizationServiceProxy class for connecting to Common Data Service
To allow for transition of customers and partner applications:
- Effective October 2020, the authentication protocol will be retired for all new tenants.
- Effective April 2021, the authentication protocol will be retired for all new environments within a tenant.
- Effective April 2022, the authentication protocol will be retired for all new and existing environments within a tenant.
More information: Use of Office365 authentication with the WS-Trust security protocol
Task flows are deprecated
Task flows are used to create a step-by-step data entry form for common tasks, such as after-meeting follow-ups.
- By October 1, 2020, Task flows are deprecated and will be removed.
- They will be replaced by the immersive experience for business process flows that is planned for release.
More information: Business process flow immersive experiences
Some client APIs are deprecated
Deprecated Client API : getData and setData for Silverlight web resources
- Silverlight is no longer supported.
- After October, 2020, These methods won’t be available.
TimeZoneRule entity and some attributes of TimeZoneDefinition entity are deprecated
Effective September 24, 2020, the TimeZoneRule entity and the Bias and RetiredOrder attributes of the TimeZoneDefinition entity are deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
More information: Deprecation of time zone entities in Common Data Service
Online management API PowerShell module is deprecated
- Effective August 26, 2020, the online management API PowerShell module is deprecated.
- The online management API PowerShell module will be updated in October, 2020 to point to newer underlying APIs and won’t receive further updates.
- We recommend that you use the Power Apps administration module.
More information: Get started using the Power Apps admin module.