--- id: video/7SSNcUMFtCw type: video title: "What's New: Business Central AI Resources (2025 release wave 1)" summary: "Business Central AI Resources in 2025 release wave 1: Microsoft-managed Azure OpenAI (GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini) for publishers in SaaS production, moving from private to public preview, with consumption-based direct billing being added. Covers content safety, data privacy, bring-your-own subscription, AL patterns and model deprecation." tier: official language: en tags: - ai resources - copilot - azure openai - content safety - data privacy - billing - developer tools - managed ai - model deployment - prompts - consumption-based pricing - responsible ai system: copilot review: state: reviewed by: opus at: "2026-10-07T22:56:08.282Z" flags: [] generated: at: "2026-10-07T22:56:08.326Z" pipeline: 0.2.0 prompts: extract-video: 1 summarize-video: 2 input_hash: 1a40c6a2793d2e6ec1d053429fa3e91ac5a1becd1d823c2a0fefb9df2c6dbe4b evidence: - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=39s title: "Business Central AI Resources: preview" date: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" commit: null t: 39 quote: we're moving BC or Business Central AI resources from private preview, that means by invitation only, uh to a public preview - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1026s title: "Consumption-based billing for AI resource use: announced" date: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" commit: null t: 1026 quote: So this will be a consumptionbased uh approach where the customers will build directly from Microsoft. - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1136s title: "Embeddings support: announced" date: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" commit: null t: 1136 quote: we do not support uh embeddings although we have plans in probably next release uh in a you know half a year to a - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=39s title: "What's New: Business Central AI Resources (2025 release wave 1)" date: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" commit: null t: 39 quote: in this release, we're moving BC or Business Central AI resources from private preview, that means by invitation only, uh to a public preview - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=56s title: "What's New: Business Central AI Resources (2025 release wave 1)" date: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" commit: null t: 56 quote: we are adding consumptionbased uh direct billing of customers uh AI resource use as well - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=95s title: "What's New: Business Central AI Resources (2025 release wave 1)" date: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" commit: null t: 95 quote: the business central ai resources will be the default and recommended approach but some publishers or customers might have special needs - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=112s title: "What's New: Business Central AI Resources (2025 release wave 1)" date: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" commit: null t: 112 quote: partners still need to use their own subscription when they are prototyping, developing and testing and troubleshooting in non-production uh and nonsas environments for - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=430s title: "What's New: Business Central AI Resources (2025 release wave 1)" date: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" commit: null t: 430 quote: we're not using data to train models uh we're not using data for example um to like improve Microsoft services and such uh we - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=523s title: "What's New: Business Central AI Resources (2025 release wave 1)" date: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" commit: null t: 523 quote: we still require you as a partner to have an active Azure OpenAI subscription and this is mostly to make sure that you are - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=670s title: "What's New: Business Central AI Resources (2025 release wave 1)" date: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" commit: null t: 670 quote: whenever possible, yes. So we as Microsoft of course commit to data privacy. So your data will stay within geography if there is the - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=799s title: "What's New: Business Central AI Resources (2025 release wave 1)" date: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" commit: null t: 799 quote: different models might behave differently. So your feature might just not work as well with the new one - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=812s title: "What's New: Business Central AI Resources (2025 release wave 1)" date: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" commit: null t: 812 quote: that is currently not possible neither by using the ai resources from the toolkit nor by bringing your own azure - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=852s title: "What's New: Business Central AI Resources (2025 release wave 1)" date: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" commit: null t: 852 quote: we only expose to your partners capabilities that we as Microsoft use. And that's because of course we want to keep them tested and - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1026s title: "What's New: Business Central AI Resources (2025 release wave 1)" date: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" commit: null t: 1026 quote: uh approach where the customers will build directly from microsoft - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1039s title: "What's New: Business Central AI Resources (2025 release wave 1)" date: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" commit: null t: 1039 quote: However, the details of that uh is not ready at the time of this recording. Um but keep an eye out for details after - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1062s title: "What's New: Business Central AI Resources (2025 release wave 1)" date: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" commit: null t: 1062 quote: when you use the business central AI resources Microsoft manages those resources but it also means that it's available in SAS only and production - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1136s title: "What's New: Business Central AI Resources (2025 release wave 1)" date: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" commit: null t: 1136 quote: we do not support uh embeddings although we have plans in probably next release uh in a you know half a year to a - kind: video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1245s title: "What's New: Business Central AI Resources (2025 release wave 1)" date: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" commit: null t: 1245 quote: customers will be able to track usage search, set limits, and get a single detail invoice across all of the ISVS that are using links: learn: [] objects: - object/codeunit/457 features: [] topics: [] localizations: [] videos: [] posts: [] guidelines: [] video_id: 7SSNcUMFtCw channel: yt-microsoft source_name: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (YouTube) url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw published_at: "2025-06-06T10:00:12.000Z" duration_s: 1337 captions: full audience: - developer - partner - administrator - decision maker chapters: - t: 0 title: Introduction to Business Central AI Resources - t: 56 title: What are Business Central AI Resources and their benefits - t: 206 title: Benefits of using BC AI Resources - t: 314 title: Content safety and data privacy - t: 443 title: Using BC AI Resources versus bring your own subscription - t: 601 title: Development and deployment patterns - t: 749 title: Model deprecation and frequently asked questions - t: 867 title: Billing Challenges with Custom Azure OpenAI - t: 1026 title: Business Central AI Resources Billing Model - t: 1051 title: "Comparison: AI Resources vs Bring Your Own" - t: 1172 title: Responsible AI and Billing Differences - t: 1264 title: Resources and Closing features: - name: Business Central AI Resources status: preview t: 6 verified: true status_source: video - name: Consumption-based billing for AI resource use status: announced t: 56 verified: true status_source: video - name: Content safety with blocking policy status: unclear t: 314 verified: false status_source: video - name: Set managed resource authorization function status: unclear t: 489 verified: false status_source: video - name: Bring your own Azure OpenAI subscription status: unclear t: 83 verified: false status_source: video - name: Conditional code pattern for development and production status: unclear t: 601 verified: false status_source: video - name: Data residency control for AI calls status: unclear t: 670 verified: false status_source: video - name: System prompts for AI safety status: unclear t: 702 verified: false status_source: video - name: Model deprecation notifications via telemetry status: unclear t: 749 verified: false status_source: video - name: Azure OpenAI Deployments code unit status: unclear t: 558 verified: false status_source: video - name: Data source capabilities in AI Resources status: unclear t: 812 verified: false status_source: video - name: Non-OpenAI models support status: unclear t: 840 verified: false status_source: video - name: AI Resources model availability status: unclear t: 1111 verified: false status_source: video - name: Embeddings support status: announced t: 1136 verified: true status_source: video objects_mentioned: - codeunit Azure AOI deployments - codeunit environment information quotes: - t: 39 text: in this release, we're moving BC or Business Central AI resources from private preview, that means by invitation only, uh to a public preview check: exact - t: 56 text: we are adding consumptionbased uh direct billing of customers uh AI resource use as well check: exact - t: 95 text: the business central ai resources will be the default and recommended approach but some publishers or customers might have special needs check: fuzzy - t: 112 text: partners still need to use their own subscription when they are prototyping, developing and testing and troubleshooting in non-production uh and nonsas environments for check: exact - t: 430 text: we're not using data to train models uh we're not using data for example um to like improve Microsoft services and such uh we check: snapped - t: 523 text: we still require you as a partner to have an active Azure OpenAI subscription and this is mostly to make sure that you are check: exact - t: 670 text: whenever possible, yes. 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[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw) · Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (YouTube) · 2025-06-06 · 22:17 · tier official · reviewed (checked by Opus) ## Overview The video explains Business Central AI Resources, Microsoft-managed Azure OpenAI resources that let publishers use large language models without procuring and managing Azure OpenAI subscriptions for each customer. In this release they move from private preview (invitation only) to public preview. Consumption-based direct billing of customers is being added, though billing details were not ready at recording time. It then covers how developers use them. The set managed resource authorization function takes an account name, API key and deployment name. Bring-your-own subscription is meant for development, testing and special cases. A conditional code pattern switches between the two by environment. The video also covers content safety, data residency, model deprecation telemetry, and current limits such as no embeddings, no data sources and no non-OpenAI models. ## Key points - AI Resources are Microsoft-managed Azure OpenAI resources, available in SaaS production environments only, with GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini at recording time. - The release moves AI Resources from private preview (invitation only) to public preview and adds consumption-based direct billing; billing details were not final at recording. - Partners still use their own Azure OpenAI subscription for prototyping, development, testing and troubleshooting in non-production and non-SaaS environments, and must hold an active subscription for compliance verification even though its resources are not consumed. - Use the set managed resource authorization function (account name, API key, deployment name) for AI Resources; use the set authorization function for bring-your-own. Use the environment information codeunit to switch between them. - Content safety adds a blocking policy (hate, violence, sexual content, self-harm, jailbreak, cross-prompt injection) and system prompts, which can change model behavior slightly versus on-premises testing. Test in a sandbox before customer deployment. - Telemetry signals warn of model deprecation. Deadlines are stricter than AL deprecation, and an unmigrated feature may be moved to a new model and behave differently. - Not supported now: embeddings (semantic search planned in roughly half a year to a year), data source capabilities (no retrieval augmented generation), and non-OpenAI models such as DeepSeek. ## Chapters - [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=0s) Introduction to Business Central AI Resources - [0:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=56s) What are Business Central AI Resources and their benefits - [3:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=206s) Benefits of using BC AI Resources - [5:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=314s) Content safety and data privacy - [7:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=443s) Using BC AI Resources versus bring your own subscription - [10:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=601s) Development and deployment patterns - [12:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=749s) Model deprecation and frequently asked questions - [14:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=867s) Billing Challenges with Custom Azure OpenAI - [17:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1026s) Business Central AI Resources Billing Model - [17:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1051s) Comparison: AI Resources vs Bring Your Own - [19:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1172s) Responsible AI and Billing Differences - [21:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1264s) Resources and Closing ## Features | Feature | Status | At | Evidence | |---|---|---|---| | Business Central AI Resources | preview | [0:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=6s) | "we're moving BC or Business Central AI resources from private preview, that means by invitation only, uh to a public preview" ([0:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=39s)) | | Consumption-based billing for AI resource use | announced | [0:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=56s) | "So this will be a consumptionbased uh approach where the customers will build directly from Microsoft." ([17:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1026s)) | | Content safety with blocking policy | status not stated | [5:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=314s) | | | Set managed resource authorization function | status not stated, demoed | [8:09](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=489s) | | | Bring your own Azure OpenAI subscription | status not stated, demoed | [1:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=83s) | | | Conditional code pattern for development and production | status not stated, demoed | [10:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=601s) | | | Data residency control for AI calls | status not stated | [11:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=670s) | | | System prompts for AI safety | status not stated | [11:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=702s) | | | Model deprecation notifications via telemetry | status not stated | [12:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=749s) | | | Azure OpenAI Deployments code unit | status not stated | [9:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=558s) | | | Data source capabilities in AI Resources | status not stated | [13:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=812s) | | | Non-OpenAI models support | status not stated | [14:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=840s) | | | AI Resources model availability | status not stated | [18:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1111s) | | | Embeddings support | announced | [18:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1136s) | "we do not support uh embeddings although we have plans in probably next release uh in a you know half a year to a" ([18:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1136s)) | ## AL objects mentioned As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named. - codeunit "Azure AOI deployments" at [9:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=558s) - [codeunit 457 "Environment Information"](../objects/codeunit/457.md) at [10:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=644s) Not found in BC28-30: codeunit "Azure AOI deployments". ## Quotes - [0:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=39s) "in this release, we're moving BC or Business Central AI resources from private preview, that means by invitation only, uh to a public preview" - [0:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=56s) "we are adding consumptionbased uh direct billing of customers uh AI resource use as well" - [1:35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=95s) "the business central ai resources will be the default and recommended approach but some publishers or customers might have special needs" - [1:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=112s) "partners still need to use their own subscription when they are prototyping, developing and testing and troubleshooting in non-production uh and nonsas environments for" - [7:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=430s) "we're not using data to train models uh we're not using data for example um to like improve Microsoft services and such uh we" - [8:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=523s) "we still require you as a partner to have an active Azure OpenAI subscription and this is mostly to make sure that you are" - [11:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=670s) "whenever possible, yes. So we as Microsoft of course commit to data privacy. So your data will stay within geography if there is the" - [13:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=799s) "different models might behave differently. So your feature might just not work as well with the new one" - [13:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=812s) "that is currently not possible neither by using the ai resources from the toolkit nor by bringing your own azure" - [14:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=852s) "we only expose to your partners capabilities that we as Microsoft use. And that's because of course we want to keep them tested and" - [17:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1026s) "uh approach where the customers will build directly from microsoft" - [17:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1039s) "However, the details of that uh is not ready at the time of this recording. Um but keep an eye out for details after" - [17:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1062s) "when you use the business central AI resources Microsoft manages those resources but it also means that it's available in SAS only and production" - [18:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1136s) "we do not support uh embeddings although we have plans in probably next release uh in a you know half a year to a" - [20:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1245s) "customers will be able to track usage search, set limits, and get a single detail invoice across all of the ISVS that are using" ## Disclaimers in the video - [0:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=39s) preview: moving BC or Business Central AI resources from private preview, that means by invitation only, uh to a public preview available for all of you - [1:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=112s) not-in-this-release: partners still need to use their own subscription when they are prototyping, developing and testing and troubleshooting in non-production - [6:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=367s) coming-later: we have uh in the plans to have some even better protection - [13:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=812s) not-in-this-release: data source capabilities that Azure OpenAI exposes from our toolkit. That is currently not possible - [14:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=852s) not-in-this-release: we can expose non open AI models in our toolkit for example deepseek or other models that have come out recently. And the answer is we don't support that currently - [17:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1039s) subject-to-change: the details of that uh is not ready at the time of this recording. Um but keep an eye out for details after launch to learn more about how the billing works. - [18:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSNcUMFtCw&t=1136s) coming-later: we have plans in probably next release uh in a you know half a year to a year's time frame to provide some semantic search capabilities Presenters (as heard): Peter Bo, Enrico Chibitan.