Consultant-focused KB for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center: implementation notes, gotchas, and configuration decisions beyond the official docs — across voice and digital channels, routing, agent and supervisor experience, Copilot & AI, workforce engagement, analytics, administration and security.
Features Microsoft has announced are going away for Dynamics 365 Contact Center, grouped by the area they affect. The mirror of the roadmap: what to plan a migration off, not what to adopt. 3 still to take effect · 13 already retired.
The Apple Messages for Business channel is on its way out — deprecated 17 July 2026 and removed from Copilot Service admin center on 30 September 2026. Anyone routing Apple business chats needs another channel lined up before then.
Move to Move affected conversations to another supported messaging channel; contact Microsoft Support for integration options.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗The post-call survey toggle on the voice workstream Language tab in Copilot Service admin center was removed on 1 August 2025.
Move to Configure post-call surveys with Copilot Studio.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗Local hosting for the legacy voice channel is being retired region by region (Switzerland from 31 October 2024; India and Japan from 9 September 2024) as part of the move to the enhanced voice experience.
Move to Move to the global cloud voice deployment in the nearest supported region.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗These four custom messaging channels were removed from Omnichannel for Customer Service on 8 October 2024.
Move to Contact Microsoft Support for alternative channel integration.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗Google's Business Messages channel is gone, following Google's own retirement of the product on 31 July 2024.
Move to Contact Microsoft Support for alternative channel integration.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗The built-in unified routing diagnostics feature is deprecated and will be removed on 31 March 2026. Routing troubleshooting moves to Application Insights.
Move to Use conversation diagnostics in Azure Application Insights.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗The effort estimation model in unified routing was deprecated on 2 May 2025 and removed on 2 June 2025.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗The old agent and supervisor dashboard experiences in Copilot Service workspace are deprecated from 1 December 2025, with support ending 1 December 2026. Teams still on the dashboards need to move across before support runs out.
Move to Switch to the inbox experience and the Omnichannel real-time analytics report in Copilot Service workspace.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗Unified Service Desk is deprecated from 1 April 2026. The successor is the browser-based Copilot Service workspace, so any USD deployment needs a migration plan.
Move to Move agents to Copilot Service workspace.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗The legacy AI topic clustering for cases and conversation topics was deprecated on 20 June 2025 and removed after 31 August 2025 in Customer Service and Contact Center.
Move to Use the current AI topic clustering configuration.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗The trusted-webpages option that lets Copilot draft emails from up to five external domains runs on the Bing Search API, which Microsoft retired on 11 August 2025. The setting is still in the admin centre and Microsoft added a caution in September 2026 saying generation from those pages may not work as expected — it will degrade quietly rather than error, so move anything that depends on it into knowledge articles.
Move to Knowledge articles in the Dynamics 365 knowledge base, or Copilot Studio knowledge sources
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗The draft a chat response preview was deprecated on 1 July 2025 and removed on 14 July 2025.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗Auto-summarization of ongoing conversations stopped being supported on 16 April 2025.
Move to Use the Copilot-generated conversation summary.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗Forecasting for case and conversation volumes, and representative forecasting for conversations, is deprecated in Dynamics 365 Contact Center. Support ends 30 October 2026 and the feature is removed after that; anyone relying on it for staffing needs to move to forecast scenarios in workforce engagement management, which is a package install and a planning-group design exercise rather than a toggle.
Move to Forecast scenarios in workforce engagement management (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/contact-center/use/workforce-management-forecast-scenarios)
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗The unified routing historical analytics dashboards were deprecated on 30 June 2025 and removed after 31 August 2025 across Customer Service and Contact Center.
Move to Use the current unified routing historical analytics reports.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗The setClickToAct JavaScript API in Channel Integration Framework v1 and v2 was deprecated on 31 October 2025.
Move to Use the ClickToAct outbound communication configuration in CIF 2.0.
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