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# How Do I: Manage and Postpone BC Updates in the Admin Center

[Read the post](https://thinkaboutit.be/2026/05/how-do-i-manage-and-postpone-bc-updates-in-the-admin-center/) · think about IT - Steven Renders (Steven Renders) · 2026-05-08 · 1109 words · tier community · reviewed (checked by Opus)

> Managing Business Central SaaS updates in the Admin Center allows you to schedule, delay, and respond to rollout pauses. This matters because environments upgraded to a problematic version cannot be rolled back, while postponement controls and notification setup help you avoid becoming the test cohort for production issues.

## Key points

- Two major updates a year plus monthly minor ones roll out in stages, and Microsoft pauses the rollout when a critical issue appears
- Environments upgraded before a pause stay on the faulty version; held environments are rescheduled seven days after their original date
- Configure notification recipients to get emails about new versions, schedules, failures, pauses and per-tenant extension compatibility
- Set an update window of at least six hours outside business hours and pick the update date deliberately, near the end of the allowed period
- Updates can be delayed but not skipped; Microsoft-localized environments get up to five months, partner-localized about 60 days

## Context

- Features: Update scheduling, Update window configuration, Notification recipients setup, Rollout pause handling, Version targeting, Update postponement, Environment update control
- Versions: BC28, BC25

Source: think about IT - Steven Renders, community blog. Summary, key points and quotes are derived (CONTENT-NOTICE.md); read the original for the full text.