Introduction
Microsoft is modernizing the Go-Live Readiness Review for partner led and self-service projects, making the process significantly faster and more automated. The Dynamics 365 FastTrack team will enhance the Go‑Live Readiness Reviews de Finance & Operations to better align with the product strategy focused on AI.
While the overall objective remains unchanged (ensuring that your implementation is ready for production), the execution of this review will soon be much faster, automated, and more efficient.
Key improvements include:
🔹 AI automated assessments completed in minutes
🔹 Real time risk identification and mitigation
🔹 Automatic activation of production slots
🔹 Fully autonomous through the Implementation Portal
What previously took days will now take only minutes, giving partners and customers more control, visibility, and speed during go live.
This is a major step forward in reducing deployment friction and delays with D365 Finance.
When? The expected release date will be confirmed soon.
What Is Changing?
1. Self-service – Create a Project in the Portal
Today, there are two ways to create projects:
- Contact the Dynamics 365 FastTrack Go Live support team and provide all required details.
2. Self-service creation through the Dynamics 365 Implementation Portal. Going forward, all projects must be created exclusively using this portal. Except in cases of errors or portal issues, the support team will no longer create projects manually.
You can start preparing now:
- Get familiar with the onboarding process: : Create or join a project in the Implementation Portal – Dynamics 365 | Microsoft Learn.
- Required onboarding information includes: tenant ID, LCS ID and region, and consent from at least two customer stakeholders.
- Learn how to create a project review: Help – Details
- Create projects well in advance to resolve any technical issues before the final release.
2. The Review Will Now Be AI Driven by Default
Currently, all Go Live Readiness Reviews are performed manually by Microsoft FastTrack, often requiring up to three business days for initial results plus additional time for risk handling before deployment approval.
With the new process, reviews will be performed automatically by an AI system unless you explicitly opt out. This AI powered review is fully automated — from analysis to output — and requires no human intervention.
It is based on the same Success by Design principles and knowledge articles used by FastTrack architects.
The automated review is completed within minutes, and stakeholders are notified immediately.
You can start preparing now:
- Expect significantly faster turnaround times.
- Continue to provide clear and concise inputs for the review.
- Ensure prerequisites from the Prepare for Go-live documentation are fulfilled, otherwise review submission will be blocked.
3. Risks and Mitigations Will Be Handled in Real Time
Currently, FastTrack provides a human written report summarizing risks, recommendations, and next steps. Partners and customers then review these items before production slot activation.
With the new AI model:
- Risks and recommendations appear instantly in the Dynamics 365 Implementation Portal.
- Customer stakeholders can directly mark risks as mitigated using a new confirmation button.
- This triggers automatic review finalization.
No more email back and forth — Microsoft empowers customers to make the Go/No Go decision directly based on provided risks and guidance.
You can start preparing now:
• Ensure the appropriate customer/partner stakeholders are designated as key portal participants — only a customer from the tenant associated with the review can resolve risks and unlock the production slot.
• Be ready to address reported risks quickly for immediate production slot availability.
4. Production Slot Activation Will Be Automated
Today, FastTrack manually verifies risk resolution before activating the production slot in LCS.
In the future:
- Once the customer indicates that risks are mitigated,
- LCS will automatically release the production slot within minutes,
- with no human intervention required.
You can start preparing now:
- Verify customer administrator roles and review participants are correctly assigned during project review creation.
- Ensure customer stakeholders are available to review risks and approve mitigation steps.
- Align cutover and deployment planning to take advantage of faster slot availability.
- Ensure internal teams are ready to react quickly once risks are cleared.
5. Opt Out Will Be Supported, But Manual Review Will Be Slower
The new experience offers a simple choice:
- Default: Instant AI based evaluation
- Optional: Current process — manual review, current 3 day SLA, human based risk and approval management
If your project requires manual intervention, you can opt out of the AI review during submission.
Otherwise, most customers are expected to adopt AI for faster timelines.
You can start preparing now:
• Quickly decide whether AI analysis fits your project needs.
• If opting out, plan for the usual review timeline (3 business days for the initial check).
Conclusion
The AI driven Go Live Readiness Review removes traditional waiting times, shortens planning cycles, and gives customers and partners more control during the final deployment stages.
It reflects Microsoft’s broader strategy of building autonomous AI systems and automated workflows that reduce manual effort and accelerate deployment.
In Summary:
- Most of the review processes become self-service: project creation, review execution, risk resolution, and production slot activation (with the exception of risk resolution, which remains customer controlled).
- Faster analysis with immediate LCS production slot release once all risks are resolved.
- Greater visibility and control for stakeholders.
- Go live happens on your timeline — not based on a review queue.
As this new process becomes available, partners and customers should ensure their project teams, governance structures, and deployment plans are prepared to take full advantage of faster AI enabled go lives.
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