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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users, automatically | - | 
Apr 1, 2026 |
Business value
The enhanced MCP server helps your organization scale AI‑driven automation more reliably by enabling consistent, secure agent interactions with Business Central APIs and data. Built‑in validation reduces deployment risk and execution failures, while reusable configurations simplify rollout across multiple environments. Support for a broader range of AI tools, including Visual Studio Code, Copilot Studio, and third‑party platforms, allows you to integrate agents securely using Microsoft Entra ID. New telemetry, auditing, and resource handling give administrators better visibility into agent behavior and enable agents to work effectively with larger datasets across business processes.
Feature details
The enhanced MCP server introduces improvements across configuration management, interoperability, telemetry, and data handling for agent-based integrations with Business Central.
- Static validation of MCP tool configurations performs pre‑runtime checks on API page objects to detect missing dependencies and structural issues. It identifies absent parent API pages with recommended remediation steps and ensures that object types, page IDs, and API relationships are correctly defined in static tool mode.
- Expanded MCP host compatibility is provided through a dedicated endpoint at
https://mcp.businesscentral.dynamics.com, which implements the latest MCP protocol specifications and OAuth 2.1. The endpoint supports preauthorized access from Visual Studio Code and Microsoft Copilot Studio, as well as secure integration with third‑party MCP clients registered through Microsoft Entra ID. - Telemetry captures MCP configuration lifecycle events, including create, update, and delete operations, as well as detailed logging of MCP calls with success and failure status indicators. Microsoft Purview integration provides audit trail capabilities for all MCP configuration changes.
- The MCP server supports embedded resources that return structured data as file references, allowing data to be passed directly to code‑execution tools and improving context management for large datasets.
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