Dynamics 365 Sales 2025 release wave 2

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As a sales team, you often spend a significant amount of time on manual data entry, like copying information from emails, business cards, or web forms into your CRM. This process not only reduces your available time but also takes time away from high-value selling activities, such as engaging with prospects and closing deals.

Smart paste helps you eliminate that busywork. It uses AI to analyze what you copy to your clipboard, identify key details, and automatically fill them into the right fields. Whether it's content from an email or a business card, smart paste updates the form for you, so all you need to do is review and save the lead or contact. It reduces manual effort, speeds up data entry, and keeps you focused on what matters most: selling.

Feature Details

As a seller, you can:

  • Use smart paste to automatically get inline field suggestions by copying relevant text or images to your clipboard.
  • Paste using the smart paste icon or the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+V or Cmd+V) when no field is selected and let AI reason over the form and clipboard content to suggest field values.
  • Choose to accept or ignore suggestions, and continue editing the form as needed.
  • Paste directly into specific fields as usual by selecting the field first.

For more details and timelines, see the Power Apps release plan: Fill forms faster with smart paste

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
Users

    Change history
    Timelines:
    Early Access: ---
    Public preview: Jul 28, 2025
    General availability: Aug 2025
    Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

    Included in:
    2025 release wave 1

    Enabled for:
    Users by admins, makers, or analysts

    Business Value

    Sales teams get a wide variety of leads but often don't have the capacity to handle them all effectively. Scaling operations can be a daunting task. When you expand the team or streamline processes, you risk overlooking opportunities and losing revenue.

    The autonomous Sales Qualification Agent in Dynamics 365 Sales works nonstop to build a qualified pipeline and boost revenue. After you configure it, the agent works on its own with minimal human oversight. It continuously handles every lead with precision. By leveraging data from your CRM and external sources, the agent automatically researches each lead, intelligently sends personalized outreach emails, follows up with timely reminders, gauges buying intent, and eventually hands over only the most qualified leads to human sellers.

    By freeing sellers to focus on closing deals, the agent boosts productivity, lowers operational costs, and maximizes overall team revenue.

    Feature Details

    You can customize the autonomous Sales Qualification Agent to align with your specific business processes and sales strategies.

    • Precise lead targeting: Define specific filtering criteria to ensure the agent focuses exclusively on your desired leads. These criteria can include leads from a particular geography, related to a specific product, or leads that meet a certain lead value threshold.
    • Intelligent research and synthesis: The agent automatically gathers and synthesizes key customer and account data from your CRM, public web sources, and existing copilot skills. It provides crucial context for qualification and enables sellers with deeper insights.
    • ICP-driven qualification: Establish detailed Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) criteria for the agent to accurately assess lead fit and prioritize high-potential prospects.
    • Knowledge-infused outreach: Configure the agent with access to your knowledge base, so it can automatically incorporate relevant testimonials, case studies, and other social proof into its outreach emails to enhance credibility.
    • Automated follow-ups: Set up a follow-up strategy that includes time delay, frequency, and channels for the agent to use when following up with prospects.
    • Informed prospect engagement: Provide the agent with knowledge sources so it can intelligently answer prospect questions about your product or service capabilities, features, maintenance, pricing, and more. This setup ensures accurate and timely responses.
    • Performance monitoring and analytics: Track the agent's effectiveness with clear metrics. These metrics include the number of leads engaged, emails sent, positive interactions, leads qualified, and overall pipeline contribution.
    • Supervisor oversight: Supervise the agent's activities. Review its interactions and easily intervene to provide guidance or resolve situations where it needs assistance. This approach ensures smooth operation and continuous improvement.

    Enabled for:

    Users by admins, makers, or analysts
    This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

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      Public preview date moved to Aug 2025 7/25/2025 12:00:00 AM
      Timelines:
      Early Access: ---
      Public preview: Aug 2025
      General availability: ---
      Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

      Included in:
      2025 release wave 1

      Enabled for:
      Users by admins, makers, or analysts

      Business Value

      Although most companies generate a sizable amount of new business from existing customers, only a small fraction of new leads link to existing CRM data. This disconnect results in incomplete context, missed insights, and subpar customer experiences, as sellers and AI agents lack critical information for effective interactions.

      With the auto-link capabilities, you can identify additional data about the lead in the CRM from linked contacts and accounts. Sellers get comprehensive visibility into relevant data, and AI agents can process information not only from the lead but also from the linked contact and account, which enhances research outcomes and improves customer interactions.

      Feature Details

      As a seller, you see the following information on the lead insights page:

      • Automatically linked contact and account information.
      • Enriched information from linked accounts and contacts.
      • The ability to de-link an auto-linked record and manually link another record if needed.

      Sales AI agents analyze information across linked accounts and contacts for high effectiveness.

      Enabled for:

      Users by admins, makers, or analysts
      https://docs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/release-plan/2025wave1/sales/dynamics365-sales
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        Public preview date moved to Aug 2025 6/4/2025 12:00:00 AM
        Timelines:
        Early Access: ---
        Public preview: Aug 2025
        General availability: ---
        Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

        Included in:
        2025 release wave 1

        Enabled for:
        Users by admins, makers, or analysts

        Business Value

        When your large customers have multiple accounts, contacts, locations, and other related data, sellers can miss important customer opportunities and signals. A seller might not see the recent win in another region or notice an influential decision maker is unhappy with a related project. Presenting large, complex customers to your sellers in a simple and intuitive visualization helps them understand these large customers and maximize opportunities.

        The new Hierarchy control in Dynamics 365 Sales provides your organization with an intuitive visualization of your data. With this view, sellers can see important connections, such as common decision makers, and quickly take action with less effort. Define custom visualizations for your sellers and other teams that highlight the most important data and relationships for your customer's accounts, people, opportunities, and custom tables like householding and financial instruments. A hierarchical visualization lets your sellers and other team members see your customer's organization like never before. Because the hierarchy view provides full editability of the records you choose to display, your team can easily view, edit, and update customer information right in context without leaving the visualization.

        Feature Details

        With the Hierarchical Relationship Visualizer, your sellers can view and work with data in a convenient parent-child visualization.

        Configurable

        • Admins define hierarchy views for their teams. The feature currently supports single-table hierarchies, with support for multiple-table complex hierarchies coming later in the year.
        • Customize what data appears on each tile, along with the size, color, and picture or icon. You can show up to seven fields on each tile to create the perfect view for your sellers.
        • Define hierarchies by using relationships in your data. You can use single-table (self-referencing) relationships, cross-table relationships, or the Dataverse Connections table for flexible relationships between any two records.

        Intuitive

        • Zoom in and out and expand and collapse branches so you can efficiently work with customers of all sizes.
        • Switch between vertical and horizontal display modes to optimize the view based on the shape of the hierarchy.
        • Select a tile to open the details form in a side pane, so you can make updates, add meeting notes, and make other edits without leaving the hierarchy view.

        Planned releases

        • The v1 hierarchy control preview supports single-table hierarchies.
        • The v2 hierarchy control preview adds support for multitable complex hierarchies.

        Enabled for:

        Users by admins, makers, or analysts
        https://docs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/release-plan/2025wave2/sales/dynamics365-sales
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          Change history
          Timelines:
          Early Access: ---
          Public preview: Aug 2025
          General availability: Oct 2025
          Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

          Included in:
          2025 release wave 2
          2025 release wave 1

          Enabled for:
          Users by admins, makers, or analysts

          Business Value

          Sales teams often deal with large volumes of lead and contact data from sources like business cards, web forms, and scanned documents. Manually entering this information into Dynamics 365 Sales is time-consuming, error-prone, and takes away from high-value selling activities like engaging with customers and closing deals.

          As part of Copilot’s form fill assistance initiatives, the form fill assist toolbar supports uploading of files, emails, and images, helping eliminate this manual data entry work. It uses AI to extract key details such as names, phone numbers, addresses, and company info from uploaded content, and intelligently maps them to the right fields in the sales form. This capability streamlines data entry, reduces errors, and helps you stay focused on selling.

          Feature Details

          As a seller, you can:

          • Use Files to upload supported file types (.txt, .docx, .csv, .pdf, .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp) and get inline suggestions to fill out fields based on the file’s content.
          • Drag and drop a file or use the file selector button in the form fill assist toolbar to start.
          • Hover over the file’s source tag to see which fields the file suggests.
          • Accept all suggestions at once with the Accept All button or clear them with the Clear or Clear All options.
          • Show or hide the form fill assist toolbar, access the Smart Paste button, and provide feedback with the more actions menu.

          For more details and timelines, see the Power Apps release plan: Enhanced experience for form filling with Copilot

          Enabled for:

          Users by admins, makers, or analysts
          Users
            Note:
            • The feature doesn't currently support files with sensitivity labels.

            Change history
            Timelines:
            Early Access: ---
            Public preview: Jul 28, 2025
            General availability: Oct 2025
            Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

            Included in:
            2025 release wave 2
            2025 release wave 1

            Enabled for:
            Users by admins, makers, or analysts

            Business Value

            Whether you're a developer building an AI agent to automate part of the sales workflow or a seller using AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude to get work done, you can now connect Dynamics 365 Sales to your agents and assistants with the new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.

            For developers, this capability means no more complex integrations. AI agents can retrieve, update, and act on CRM data, automate tasks like qualifying leads or sending emails, and handle business processes without custom code.

            For end users and sellers, this capability means they can use their favorite AI assistant, such as Claude or, in the future, ChatGPT, to get their work done - prioritizing leads, engaging them with personalized emails, generating quotes, and closing deals. They connect their assistant to Dynamics 365 by installing the MCP server just as easily as installing a new mobile app.

            Finally, agents and assistants can use Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales in their workflow, starting with getting summaries and drafting emails. Additional operations are coming soon.

            Feature Details

            The MCP Server exposes the following tools initially, with more tools coming soon:

            • List leads
            • Retrieve lead summary (using Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales)
            • Qualify lead to opportunity
            • Get outreach email (using Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales)
            • Send outreach email

            Use Microsoft Copilot Studio to build custom agents for sales teams that include the Dynamics 365 Sales MCP server or connect Dynamics 365 with any other agent platform that supports the MCP protocol. By using the Dynamics 365 Sales MCP server in combination with MCP servers from other business applications such as Customer Service and ERP, you can automate complex cross-functional business operations with ease. For example, a quote can be generated through the Dynamics 365 Business Central MCP server for each lead that confirms interest after being engaged with the Dynamics 365 Sales MCP server. Then, a support ticket on the order can be processed using the Dynamics 365 Customer Service MCP server.

            Here are examples of agents you can build with these MCP tools:

            • A post-service upsell agent that prospects for maintenance plans after a field tech visit, turning each engagement into a sales opportunity.
            • An agent that targets prospects from existing accounts, so the account manager can schedule strategy meetings with key stakeholders.
            • An agent that helps the sales team prioritize the best leads from B2B events and add others to a marketing nurture campaign.

            Enabled for:

            Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
            This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
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              Public preview date moved to Jun 2025 5/20/2025 12:00:00 AM
              Timelines:
              Early Access: ---
              Public preview: Jun 30, 2025
              General availability: Oct 2025
              Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

              Included in:
              2025 release wave 2
              2025 release wave 1

              Enabled for:
              Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

              Business Value

              Sales teams often spend valuable time navigating through long lists of leads and opportunities to find the most relevant ones. Traditional filtering methods can be slow and require navigating complex filter menus. This disruption in focus slows decision-making.

              Smart grids, part of Copilot’s workflow efficiency toolkit, simplify this process by letting you filter, find, and sort data using natural language. Just type a query in natural language in Copilot Search, and Copilot instantly applies the right filters and updates the grid. You see exactly what criteria are used and can clear them all with one click. With smart grids, you get to insights faster, make smarter decisions, and stay focused on closing deals.

              Feature Details

              As a seller, you can:

              • Use smart grid to quickly find, filter, and sort data with natural language, so you don't need complex advanced filters.
              • Type queries like “opportunities with estimated revenue greater than 10000 USD” into Copilot Search to instantly refine your view.
              • View and clear applied filters with one click to easily switch between focused and grid views.
              • Sort records directly within the grid using natural, conversational input.

              For more details and timelines, see the Power Apps release plan: Find records and filter views using natural language

              Enabled for:

              Users by admins, makers, or analysts
              https://docs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/release-plan/2024wave2/sales/dynamics365-sales
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                General availability date moved to Jun 2025 5/22/2025 12:00:00 AM
                Timelines:
                Early Access: ---
                Public preview: Mar 21, 2025
                General availability: Oct 2025
                Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                Included in:
                2025 release wave 2
                2024 release wave 2

                Enabled for:
                Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                Business Value

                The Copilot summary for Opportunity, Lead, and Account gives sellers instant, AI-generated insights so they can quickly get up to speed, understand deal context faster, and spend less time searching through data.

                The new in-form banner experience brings key information right to the top of the record, so sellers don't need to open the Copilot side pane. With this change, sellers stay in the flow of work, focus on what matters, and drive more productive customer engagements.

                When you use Dynamics 365 Sales, this feature will be enabled by default for Opportunity, Lead, and Account summary from Copilot.

                Feature Details

                As a seller, you see an AI Summary banner at the top of your Lead, Opportunity, and Account forms. You can view a high-level summary and a detailed summary of your records. The summarization capabilities stay the same, with the following actions still supported:

                • Auto-generation of summaries when you open a form.
                • Ability to copy the generated summary.
                • Providing thumbs-up or thumbs-down feedback on summary quality.
                • Using copilot chat to generate a summary for any specific record.

                You'll get the new experience as part of the 2025 release wave 2 updates for Dynamics 365 Sales:

                • Early access from July 2025. Opt in to early access updates.
                • Default on for all Copilot-enabled organizations at general availability starting from September 2025.

                Sellers will start seeing the new in-form banner without any extra clicks.

                Enabled for:

                Users, automatically

                  Change history
                  Timelines:
                  Early Access: Jul 28, 2025
                  Public preview: ---
                  General availability: Oct 2025
                  Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                  Included in:
                  2025 release wave 2

                  Enabled for:
                  Users, automatically

                  Business Value

                  As a seller, you typically need to build a qualified pipeline that covers two to three times your target quota goal. However, building this pipeline requires manual work across fragmented tools. It's also inefficient to spend hours each week sending hundreds of prospecting emails just to book two to three meetings with prospects, of which perhaps one prospect converts to a qualified opportunity.

                  The Sales Qualification Agent in Dynamics 365 Sales eliminates this human toil by autonomously researching information about every lead using data from CRM and public web sources. The agent then recommends whether you should engage with the lead. If you choose to engage, the agent displays a pregenerated email with highly personalized talking points to grab the prospect's attention. With the agent, you can spend more time meeting customers and less time triaging leads.

                  Feature Details

                  The Sales Qualification Agent combines the power of three agents that work together to help sellers build a qualified pipeline more efficiently (although each agent isn't available independently):

                  The research agent uses data from CRM and public web sources, along with existing copilot skills, to synthesize key customer and account data. It enables sellers to:

                  • Get a 360-degree view through lead and account summaries.
                  • Confirm that the lead has a valid work email address to minimize wasted effort.
                  • Know who can make an introduction (coworkers who know the lead).
                  • Verify that the lead's company finances, priorities, and business environment align with your solution area (Account 10-K, strategic priorities, and so on).
                  • Get suggestions for who else at the lead's company to contact.
                  • See existing opportunities tied to lead, contact, and account records, so you can engage with the full context of their ongoing conversations with your company.
                  • Review a personalized email that uses talking points generated from synthesized research to send to the prospect.

                  The prioritization agent recommends whether to engage with the lead based on the ideal customer profile you configure during setup. The assessment relies not only on data in CRM but also on data obtained from predefined and custom public websites. Sellers and administrators can create custom views that filter leads based on strong fit, so they're always working on the most important leads the agent brings to them.

                  The outreach agent creates a personalized email to engage the lead, based on all the data the research agent gathers, to maximize response rates.

                  You can customize the agent to fit your team's needs. As an admin, you can:

                  • Select a team of sellers or roles on whose behalf the agent works, by using security groups.
                  • Set up ideal customer profile criteria to ensure every seller engages with only the best-fit leads.
                  • Augment research sources by adding public websites that are relevant to your business, so that you can:
                    • Set an ideal customer criterion, such as specific job or industry codes, for the agent to assess.
                    • Show a custom insight to your sellers on the generated research page, like if employees at the prospective company primarily work from home or office.
                    • Ground the agent in the value proposition of what you sell so it can add relevant talking points in the generated emails.

                  Enabled for:

                  Users by admins, makers, or analysts
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                    Public preview date moved to May 2025 1/31/2025 12:00:00 AM
                    Timelines:
                    Early Access: ---
                    Public preview: May 5, 2025
                    General availability: Oct 2025
                    Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                    Included in:
                    2025 release wave 2
                    2025 release wave 1

                    Enabled for:
                    Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                    Business Value

                    Inaccurate email addresses in CRM systems can significantly hinder your productivity and engagement with prospects, leading to missed opportunities and decreased sales performance. Now, the Sales Qualification Agent in Dynamics 365 Sales verifies each email address and identifies if it's a work or personal email. Sales teams can save precious time by ignoring unreachable leads, increase the effectiveness of their sales outreach, and stay compliant by reaching out to only valid work emails.

                    Feature Details

                    The Sales Qualification Agent uses validated email addresses as it conducts lead research, outreach, and qualification.

                    As an admin, you can specify which email field on the lead form the agent validates. You set this field as part of the Sales Qualification Agent settings.

                    As a seller, you can:

                    • See whether the email address associated with the lead is valid.
                    • See the email address categorized as work or personal.
                    • Update the validity and categorization if you disagree with the assessment. For example, you can mark an email address as personal if the agent inadvertently marks it as a work email address.

                    Enabled for:

                    Users by admins, makers, or analysts
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                      Public preview date moved to May 2025 5/5/2025 12:00:00 AM
                      Timelines:
                      Early Access: ---
                      Public preview: May 1, 2025
                      General availability: Oct 2025
                      Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                      Included in:
                      2025 release wave 2
                      2025 release wave 1

                      Enabled for:
                      Users by admins, makers, or analysts

                      Business Value

                      As a sales team, you need research that’s not only comprehensive but also tailored to your specific industry, customer segments, and business strategy. While a Sales Qualification Agent’s out-of-the-box research provides broad insights, many organizations rely on industry-specific sources, regulatory databases, or niche publications to make informed decisions.

                      With this enhancement, the agent delivers more relevant, customized insights by incorporating data from public web sources that matter most to your business. You gain real-time access to industry-aligned insights and can engage leads with deeper context, using up-to-date information to ensure outreach is timely and impactful.

                      Feature Details

                      Admins configure the Sales Qualification Agent to pull relevant insights from specific web sources, so they can tailor research to your industry's needs. Sellers see industry-specific insights from web sources that are relevant for your business.

                      For example, Contoso's sales ops team wants sellers to see industry details for incoming leads based on NAICS codes. By specifying sources that provide NAICS classifications, admins ensure that sellers receive industry insights directly in their workflow. This approach streamlines research and enables faster, more informed engagements.

                      Enabled for:

                      Users by admins, makers, or analysts
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                        Public preview date moved to Jul 2025 General availability date updated to Oct 2025 5/2/2025 12:00:00 AM
                        Timelines:
                        Early Access: ---
                        Public preview: Jul 2025
                        General availability: Oct 2025
                        Last updated: Aug 07, 2025

                        Included in:
                        2025 release wave 2
                        2025 release wave 1

                        Enabled for:
                        Users by admins, makers, or analysts