The March 2025 release of Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (F&O) Service Update (Version 10.0.43) introduces important updates across Security, Finance, Supply Chain Management (SCM), and User Experience.
This service update highlights key new features, bug fixes and deprecated features we should all be aware of as part of the release process.
(The full Microsoft update availability schedule)
Our D365 Principal Consultant, Paul Thompson, has selected the most impactful features across Platform, Finance and Supply Chain Management (SCM) for further discussion as well as some Bug fixes that are a game changer for many D365 F&O users in 2025. Let’s dive straight in.
User Experience & Bug fixes 10.0.43
Role management, license auditing, enhanced role audit trails, and security configuration versioning play a crucial role in managing privileged users and temporary role assignments.
These tools provide detailed reports on license usage for cost optimisation, user activity, and license consumption while also identifying segregation of duties violations. By ensuring proper oversight and compliance, they help optimise costs and improve resource allocation, enhancing overall security and operational efficiency.
Microsoft has made available in preview improvements in tracking changes to security configurations, providing better version control and audit trails for security settings and hinted of more to come.
User Security Governance Overview
The update enhances privileged account management, allowing administrators to:
New reports added with license indicators by
This feature reduces security risks and ensures that only authorised personnel can access sensitive data.
Stronger security controls now help organisations identify and prevent segregation of duties (SoD) conflicts. This ensures compliance by preventing a single user from holding conflicting permissions that could lead to fraud or policy violations.
This Microsoft Tech Talk offers a valuable and more comprehensive summary of the features.
For cloud-based deployments, Microsoft has enhanced UK Making Tax Digital (MTD) VAT integration security. Once enabled, this feature:
Important: Once enabled, this feature cannot be disabled.
Explore the latest security enhancements: UK MTD VAT Security Enhancements (Production-Ready)
A new reporting standard for Polish businesses, Poland SAF Accounting Books – JPK_KR_PD (Preview), becomes mandatory from January 2025. Large taxpayers must submit detailed accounting records electronically, with the first reports due by March 2026.
Full list of vendor enhancements: Enhance vendor rebate management
Discover more about:
These changes streamline rebate processing and reduce administrative workload.
Some noteworthy additions include the following key enhancements. (For a complete list of new features, as well as those now enabled by default, check out the detailed breakdown in What's New - SCM). This area has seen significant development and improvements across recent releases.
Support for step-based material consumption in Planning Optimisation enables:
This enhances production planning accuracy and aligns material usage with manufacturing steps.
A useful feature to allow clean-up of exception logs for warehousing.
View and Manage the Work Exceptions Log
A new batch job can now automatically remove old work exception logs based on predefined criteria. This helps:
Unified pricing management module overview
Finally, in Supply Chain Management, note that Unified Pricing Management has now moved out of preview and is Generally Available (GA).
These fixes enhance the overall user experience, resolving key User Interface issues from previous updates, the fix has been backported to 10.0.42 and is available to deploy or will be included in the next Proactive Quality Update (PQU).
The March 2025 Dynamics 365 Release Wave (10.0.43) delivers essential updates in Security, Compliance, Finance, Supply Chain Management (SCM), and User Experience. These enhancements provide businesses with:
For the full list of updates, download the attached PDF.