Business Central 29.0 Is GA: New Environment
Business Central 29.0 (2026 release wave 2) is generally available, and new cloud customers onboard on it. The video covers creating environments in the admin center, version 28 environment planning, notification recipients, update windows, and sandbox-first upgrade testing.
- Version 29.0 General Availability Announcement
- Environment Creation Overview and Sandbox/Production Setup
- Creating New Environments with Localization and Version Selection
- Version 28 Environment Planning and Deprecation Timeline
- Notification Recipients and Compatibility Monitoring
- Scheduling Updates and Update Windows
- Production and Sandbox Upgrade Strategy
- Summary and Upgrade Best Practices
Overview
The video announces general availability of Business Central version 29.0, also called 2026 release wave 2. New cloud customers start on version 29 from the announcement day. The on-premises version is covered in a separate video.
It then walks through the admin center: creating sandbox or production environments with a chosen localization and version, copying environments, setting notification recipients for extension compatibility emails, postponing the production upgrade, and setting an update window. It closes with a recommended strategy of upgrading sandboxes early and validating PTEs against version 29.
Key points
- Version 29.0 (2026 release wave 2) is generally available; new cloud customers onboard on version 29.
- Version 28 and preview options still appear in the environment creation wizard but will be removed; the timeline is not specified. Create a version 28 environment now if a go-live is planned on version 28.
- A tenant gets one production and three sandbox environments by default; more production environments can be purchased, each adding three sandboxes and a limited amount of extra space.
- The admin center can copy sandbox to production, production to sandbox, and sandbox to sandbox; keep an empty environment available if a version 28 go-live is planned.
- Set notification recipients explicitly in the admin center, and several can be added, to receive Microsoft emails when extensions may be incompatible with version 29.
- The update window must be at least 6 hours. That is the maximum time before a possible rollback, not the expected upgrade duration.
- Upgrade sandboxes to version 29 early so users can test, postpone the production upgrade as needed, and review or create PTEs with version 29 within roughly a month.
Features
| Feature | Status | At | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version 29.0 General Availability | generally available, demoed | 0:01 | “today Microsoft announced general availability for version 29.0” (0:01) |
| Environment Creation Wizard | status not stated, demoed | 2:07 | |
| Localization Selection in Environment Setup | status not stated, demoed | 2:33 | |
| Version 28 Deprecation | announced | 3:13 | “sooner than later, 28 will go away and uh in sometime the preview will also go away” (3:13) |
| Environment Copy Capability | status not stated | 4:15 | |
| Notification Recipients for Compatibility Alerts | status not stated, demoed | 4:53 | |
| Upgrade Schedule Postponement | status not stated, demoed | 6:15 | |
| Update Window Configuration | status not stated, demoed | 7:17 | |
| Early Sandbox Upgrade for Testing | status not stated, demoed | 9:13 |
Quotes
- 0:01 “today Microsoft announced general availability for version 29.0 or you can call it 2026 release wave 2”
- 0:24 “starting today any new customers who onboards to cloud will be starting with version 29”
- 1:37 “By default with every business central tenant you get one production and three sandboxes. You can always purchase additional production environment if needed”
- 3:26 “if you’re planning a customer go live in the following month where they have done testing on version 28 this is the right time”
- 7:46 “You cannot go less than 6 hour because it need to be 6 hour. It doesn’t mean that the upgrade will take 6 hours.”
Disclaimers in the video
- 3:13 subject-to-change: You’ll still see preview and you will still see some instances of 28, but sooner than later, 28 will go …
- 3:40 subject-to-change: this is the right time to kind of create and hold an environment on 28 because as these options will …
- 5:11 preview: now this becomes the time when you start getting emails from Microsoft if your extension is not compatible with version 29