The parallel execution for Archive long‑term retention jobs feature delivers a major scalability upgrade to the archival framework by enabling parallel processing across job creation, marking, and scheduling. Each archive job remains aligned to the existing architectural principle of being defined per legal entity and per contract type (for example, General Ledger, Tax Transactions, or Sales Order), but the execution pipeline is now partitioned and processed concurrently to reduce total archive duration.
Business Value:
This feature introduces parallel execution for Archive long‑term retention jobs, enabling the system to execute multiple Archive long‑term retention jobs in parallel for a legal entity under the same archive scenario. By leveraging parallelism, long‑term retention throughput increases, dramatically reducing overall archive duration and minimizing impact on production systems.
Enabled for:
Enabled by admins/makers/marketers for end users
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/sysadmin/archive-data
GA date: August CY2026
Preview date: July CY2026