What's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Customer Service
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This topic lists features that are planned to release from October 2020 through March 2021. Because this topic lists features that may not have released yet, delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released. For more information, go to Microsoft policy.
- For a list of the previous wave's release plans, go to 2020 release wave 1 plan.
- For a list of the next wave's release plans, go to 2021 release wave 1 plan.
In the General availability column, the feature will be delivered within the month listed. The delivery date can be any day within that month. Released features show the full date, including the date of release.
This check mark ( ) shows which features have been released for public preview or early access and for public preview, early access, and general availability.
Customer Service
Dynamics 365 Customer Service aims to enable businesses to differentiate themselves from their competition by providing world-class customer experiences.
Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
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Embedded analytics for customer service managers | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Oct 1, 2020 | - | - |
Knowledge search historical analytics | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Oct 1, 2020 | - | - |
Search for knowledge content in external sources | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Oct 1, 2020 | - | - |
Rich text control with embedded images | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | - | Oct 1, 2020 |
IoT alert measures and service history | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Feb 1, 2020 | - | Oct 1, 2020 |
Activity monitoring for automatically created records | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | Aug 3, 2020 | Oct 1, 2020 |
Agent suggestions for knowledge | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Aug 3, 2020 | - | Oct 1, 2020 |
Agent suggestions for similar cases | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Aug 3, 2020 | - | Oct 1, 2020 |
Configuration experience for timeline in the new form designer | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | Aug 3, 2020 | Oct 1, 2020 |
Create and configure device properties | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Aug 3, 2020 | Oct 1, 2020 |
Customer Service workspace – new multisession app | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Aug 3, 2020 | - | Oct 1, 2020 |
Enable silent, seamless migration from legacy to Unified Interface service scheduling experience | Users, automatically | - | Aug 3, 2020 | Oct 1, 2020 |
Enhanced knowledge articles editing and view experience | Users, automatically | - | Aug 3, 2020 | Oct 1, 2020 |
Familiar, modern email template experience for agents and administrators | Users, automatically | - | Aug 3, 2020 | Oct 1, 2020 |
Insert knowledge articles into an email | Users, automatically | - | Aug 3, 2020 | Oct 1, 2020 |
Intuitive email file attachment experience for agents | Users, automatically | - | Aug 3, 2020 | Oct 1, 2020 |
Main form dialog editing experience for queue item | Users, automatically | - | Aug 3, 2020 | Oct 1, 2020 |
New forms and dashboards for Customer Service | Users, automatically | - | Aug 3, 2020 | Oct 1, 2020 |
Tool to migrate rules for automatically creating records, service-level agreements from classic app to Customer Service Hub app | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Aug 3, 2020 | - | Oct 1, 2020 |
Usability enhancements for timeline | Users, automatically | - | Aug 3, 2020 | Oct 1, 2020 |
SLA pause and resume enhancements | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | Sep 7, 2020 | Oct 1, 2020 |
Omnichannel for Customer Service
Omnichannel for Customer Service offers a suite of capabilities that extend the power of Dynamics 365 Customer Service to enable organizations to instantly connect and engage with their customers across digital messaging channels.
Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
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Persistent messaging for chat | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Jan 8, 2021 | - | - |
Embedding chat in mobile experiences | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | - | Oct 1, 2020 |
Outbound messaging | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Aug 3, 2020 | - | Oct 1, 2020 |
Post-conversation surveys using Dynamics 365 Customer Voice | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Aug 3, 2020 | - | Oct 1, 2020 |
Real-time language translation of messages | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Aug 3, 2020 | - | Oct 1, 2020 |
Agent personalization of quick replies | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Sep 1, 2020 | - | Oct 1, 2020 |
Agent personalization of sound notifications | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Sep 1, 2020 | - | Oct 1, 2020 |
Agent suggestions for cases similar to the conversation | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Sep 1, 2020 | - | Oct 1, 2020 |
Agent suggestions for knowledge articles | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Sep 1, 2020 | - | Oct 1, 2020 |
App profile manager for multisession apps | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Sep 10, 2020 | - | Oct 1, 2020 |
* You are able to opt in to some features as part of early access on August 3, 2020, including all mandatory changes that affect users. To learn more, go to Early access FAQ.
Description of Enabled for column values:
Users, automatically: These features include changes to the user experience and are enabled automatically.
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically: These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, marketers, or business analysts and are enabled automatically.
Users by admins, makers, or analysts: These features must be enabled or configured by the administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
For a list of the countries or regions where Dynamics 365 business applications are available, go to the International availability guide. For more information about geographic areas and datacenters (regions), go to the Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform availability page.