Updated October 2026
Microsoft no longer announces Dynamics 365 features in twice-yearly waves, but F&SCM updates still ship on the same schedule. Copilot is also moving from answering questions to taking action. See how both affect your F&SCM workspace.
Fall 2026 brings changes for F&SCM teams. Microsoft announced that Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Dataverse are joining its AI at Work roadmap, and it is retiring the twice-yearly release wave model. Instead of grouping new features into Wave 1 and Wave 2 announcements, Microsoft will now publish them continuously as plans are committed. The Release Planner retires by November 15, so that is your deadline to pull anything you need from it.
What Microsoft did not change is how updates are built, released, or deployed. F&SCM service updates continue on their existing schedule. Copilot is advancing too: it can now work alongside you, not just answer questions. Western Computer is hosting two events to walk through both.
The Wave Calendar Is Gone. The Update Calendar Isn’t.
Finance teams already run close to capacity at month-end. More than half of finance teams still take over a week to close their books. (CFO.com). An ERP update that changes a report, moves a field, or alters a process lands on top of that. Microsoft still gives notice through preview releases, release notes, and update windows. What’s gone is the twice-yearly wave plan teams used to review in one sitting.
Supply chain and IT teams feel a version of the same shift. Without a Wave 2 announcement to check, “what changed and when” gets answered through the roadmap, Message Center, and each update’s release notes. That makes it worth building your own routine for reviewing changes, rather than relying on a review point Microsoft used to provide.
What’s in the Current Update (10.0.49)
s one of Microsoft’s four regular service updates for the year. Production autoupdates begin in October. It includes planning and warehouse improvements and Cash and Bank Management upgrades. It also includes Supplier Engagement, a new tool for supplier collaboration that is currently in preview and not intended for production use.
Some features in this update are now mandatory and can no longer be turned off. These are found in Asset Management, Inventory, and Warehouse Management. Sales and marketing, and Shared AP and AR Modules.
Others are enabled by default but can be turned off. Knowing which is which, and which features are still optional, is the difference between a controlled rollout and a support ticket. Review the features.
Copilot Is Moving From Answering Questions to Taking Action
The other shift landing in F&SCM this fall isn't about the release calendar at all. Gartner expects 40% of enterprise applications to feature task-specific AI agents by 2026, up from less than 5% in 2025. Copilot is part of that shift, moving from a chat window that answers questions to an agent that acts inside the system. In the October 6 session, Western Computer and Microsoft are demoing the Copilot Cowork plugin generating a cross-company view your native reports can't produce, turning a customer email into a quote or sales order, and doing it inside the permissions and business rules that already govern your ERP. For finance teams still measuring close time in days, that's a materially different starting point than the report-and-wait cycle most teams run today.
How To Prepare For the 2026 F&SCM Updates
Not every change in this update needs your attention this week, and not every Copilot capability is ready to turn on today. Some are worth testing now. Others are worth watching for another update or two. Western Computer ran two free, live sessions.
See what Copilot can already do inside F&SCM
See what's new and mandatory in the current update built specifically to help your team sort one from the other before it shows up unannounced.
Western Computer has been a Microsoft Dynamics partner for nearly 40 years, with 1,750+ implementations, including the multi-company F&SCM scenarios this update touches most directly. If you want the short version before it reaches your environment, our October sessions are a good place to start.
