What's new: Manage PTEs in the Admin Center (2026 release wave 2)
Managing per-tenant extensions (PTEs) in the Business Central admin center in 2026 release wave 2: upload, install, update, scheduling, cancel, audit page, early hotfix install for Microsoft apps, and dev extension persistence on sandboxes. Covers deprecation of the old extension management pages and automation API as of version 30.0 (April 2027).
- Introduction and PTE management overview
- Installing per-tenant extensions from admin center
- Updating per-tenant extensions and filtering apps
- Scheduling future updates and canceling schedules
- Operations audit page and demo conclusion
- PTE management considerations and API availability
- Early hotfix installation for Microsoft apps
- Hotfix installation guidance and best practices
- Dev extensions persistence on sandbox environments
Overview
The video shows how the admin center now covers the full PTE lifecycle. It demos uploading and installing a PTE, updating an existing one, filtering installed apps by type, scheduling updates for a later minor or major version, canceling a schedule, and reviewing the environment operations audit page.
It then covers considerations: the old extension management pages and automation API are to be deprecated as of version 30.0 (scheduled April 2027), and mixing old and new experiences in one environment should be avoided. The last part covers installing hotfixes for Microsoft apps early from the app details page, with cautions about bypassing safe deployment, and the change that dev extensions stay installed on sandbox environments during lifecycle operations.
Key points
- The admin center now supports upload, install and update of PTEs, in addition to other app management tasks.
- A new PTE can be installed immediately or during the update window. It cannot target the next minor or next major update; only already installed PTEs support those options.
- Multiple schedules can exist for the same PTE at once, for example version 1.1 for the next minor and version 2.0 for the next major. A schedule can be canceled from the app details page.
- PTE management in the extension management pages and the automation API will be deprecated as of version 30.0, scheduled for April 2027.
- Do not use the old and new experiences at the same time in one environment. A PTE version scheduled through one experience is only visible in that experience.
- Early hotfix install for Microsoft apps bypasses safe deployment. Use it only when a specific version fixes an issue you are affected by, and coordinate with users of the environment.
- Dev extensions now stay installed on sandboxes during lifecycle operations, unless they are incompatible with the environment changes.
Features
| Feature | Status | At |
|---|---|---|
| PTE upload, install, and update in admin center | status not stated, demoed | 0:23 |
| Flexible deployment schedule for PTE installation | status not stated, demoed | 1:28 |
| App filtering by type in admin center | status not stated, demoed | 2:55 |
| Multiple concurrent PTE schedules | status not stated, demoed | 5:01 |
| Cancel scheduled PTE installation | status not stated, demoed | 6:19 |
| Environment operations audit page | status not stated, demoed | 6:49 |
| S2S app permissions for PTE management | status not stated | 9:40 |
| Early hotfix installation for Microsoft apps | status not stated, demoed | 10:12 |
| Known issues tracking for hotfixes | status not stated | 11:39 |
| Dev extensions persistence on sandbox | status not stated | 13:28 |
Quotes
- 0:23 “with this release wave, we’re adding the upload, install, and update operations to PTE management in the admin center, which effectively brings full life”
- 8:29 “So for new PTE, it is not possible to target the next minor or next major update.”
- 8:42 “PTE management in the extension management pages in an environment and in the automation API uh will be deprecated as of version 30.0 which”
- 9:15 “PTE versions that are scheduled to be installed through either experience are only visible in the experience uh through which they have been scheduled”
- 10:01 “So these S2S apps do not require in environment registration and permission sets uh to upload and install PTEES on a customer environment.”
- 10:12 “we have introduced the ability for customers to install hot fixes to Microsoft apps installed on their environments early”
- 12:36 “this is a very powerful functionality for customers that are affected by a particular fix. But it also uh bypasses our safe deployment, which”
- 13:45 “dev extensions by design would get uninstalled during environment life cycle operations, which in some cases led to these extensions being removed from an”
Disclaimers in the video
- 8:42 coming-later: PTE management in the extension management pages in an environment and in the automation API uh will be deprecated as of version 30.0 which is scheduled to be released in April 2027
Presenters (as heard): Yostast, Ricardo.