The modern Dynamics estate spans far beyond Finance and Operations, and Microsoft’s deprecation of RSAT gives every Dynamics 365 customer a clear runway to move to something better. Leapwork gives teams a proprietary migration workbench that protects existing RSAT investments and a platform that extends across the full Dynamics ecosystem and every connected application alongside it.
If your organization has been running RSAT, you already know what it does and how it works. Microsoft built it well for its time, and for organizations running Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, it served its purpose. Microsoft’s recent RSAT deprecation announcement is simply Microsoft moving forward, investing in a broader and more capable ISV ecosystem for Dynamics customers and signaling that the complexity of platform integrations have grown beyond what RSAT was designed to support.
Microsoft has given every RSAT customer a clear runway to the End of Support (EOS) date of May 2027 to make the transition on their own terms. The question worth asking before that work begins is a simple one. Since the migration is happening regardless, why not land on a platform that makes it easier, protects everything already built in RSAT, and covers the full Dynamics 365 estate and every connected application the business runs on alongside it?
That is exactly what Leapwork offers: a proprietary migration experience built specifically for RSAT customers, Microsoft certification across major industry verticals, and application agnostic coverage that follows business processes across all the systems they touch. As the Dynamics estate evolves, Leapwork keeps pace with it. New business processes, new integrations, and new applications are ingested directly into the platform so the test library grows with the organization.
One Version updates can break business processes. A continuous quality platform makes sure you stay covered.
One Version is one of the most significant commitments Microsoft has made to its Dynamics 365 customers. By moving every organization to a continuous, Microsoft-managed release cadence of 8-10 updates per year, Microsoft took on the responsibility of keeping the platform current, secure, and consistently improving across every customer simultaneously. The result is a Dynamics 365 estate that evolves faster, incorporates new capabilities more frequently, and stays aligned with Microsoft’s broader platform investments in AI, Power Platform, and Azure at a pace that versioned deployments never could match.
Microsoft’s commitment places a corresponding demand on every organization’s testing strategy. Each release wave brings functional updates, UI changes, and platform improvements that affect automated test flows across the estate. A testing approach designed for infrequent, manually managed upgrade cycles cannot absorb that cadence sustainably. The teams that get full value from One Version are the ones with QA infrastructure that keeps pace with it automatically, adapting through every release without consuming QA capacity in manual maintenance.
RSAT was built for a world where organizations managed their own upgrade timelines. One Version represents Microsoft’s evolution beyond that model, and the deprecation of RSAT is the natural consequence of that evolution. It is an invitation to every Dynamics customer to build the QA infrastructure that matches the platform Microsoft has built for them.
The modern Dynamics 365 estate is larger and more connected than RSAT was designed to cover.
The scope of what Dynamics 365 organizations run today has expanded considerably. What began as F&O has grown across the full Dynamics family: Supply Chain Management, Commerce, Human Resources, Customer Insights, and the growing set of connected applications that organizations run alongside Dynamics across their enterprise estate. Microsoft has built deep integration across all of it, and the business processes that matter most to large enterprises reflect that integration in how they actually work.
A procure-to-pay cycle moves through vendor management, purchase requisition and approval workflows in Finance and Operations, goods receipt in Supply Chain Management, and financial posting in Finance. An order-to-cash cycle runs through Customer Insights or a connected CRM, Commerce, inventory management, and closes in Finance. These processes depend on data moving correctly across multiple Dynamics modules and connected systems, with every handoff between applications producing the right results.
Testing only the F&O layer of those processes gives organizations confidence in one component of a workflow that spans many. The richer and more integrated the Dynamics estate becomes, the more consequential that coverage gap grows. The migration away from RSAT is the natural moment to close it, expanding test coverage to match the full scope of what the business actually runs on across every Dynamics module and every connected application.
What the RSAT migration decision actually determines
Most of the guidance circulating about RSAT migration focuses on the mechanics: how to export test libraries, which tools can import task recordings, and how to minimize re-recording effort. That is useful operational information, but it is not the question that determines whether the migration was worth doing.
The question that matters most is what the QA strategy looks like after the migration is complete. An organization that migrates off of RSAT and onto a platform that covers F&O with better tooling has solved a tactical problem. An organization that migrates onto a platform that covers the full Dynamics 365 estate alongside every connected application it runs has solved a structural one. Those are genuinely different outcomes, and the migration itself is the cleanest moment to choose between them.
Dynamics 365 customers running SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, or any combination of enterprise applications alongside their Microsoft estate need a QA strategy that follows their business processes across every system those processes touch. Every integration point, every handoff between systems, and every connected application is a potential source of failure that an F&O-focused validation strategy leaves outside the quality boundary. Those are precisely the failure points that surface when a release wave reaches production.
Leapwork is the Microsoft-vetted platform for Dynamics 365 continuous quality at enterprise scale.
Leapwork holds Microsoft AI certifications across Retail, Manufacturing, Healthcare, and Financial Services. These are more than general compatibility endorsements. They reflect sustained investment in Dynamics 365 depth, industry-specific validation standards, and Microsoft ecosystem alignment that takes years to build. For organizations evaluating RSAT alternatives, Microsoft certification at the industry level is the clearest signal available that a platform has been validated to the standard that complex, regulated Dynamics environments require.
In financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing, where the consequences of a validation failure extend well beyond a delayed release into compliance exposure and operational risk, that depth of Microsoft endorsement is the foundation any serious evaluation should start from. Leapwork is where Microsoft points its Dynamics customers when they need a validated, enterprise-grade alternative to RSAT.
A migration built to protect the investment organizations have already made.
Large organizations running RSAT have typically built substantial test estates across multiple years and multiple Dynamics deployments. Business Process Libraries representing hundreds of flows capture institutional knowledge about how critical processes are supposed to behave, where failure points have historically appeared, and what the business depends on working correctly across every release wave. That knowledge has real value, and the migration is the opportunity to carry it forward with fidelity rather than sacrifice it in a forced rebuild.
Most migration paths in this market ask organizations to export what they have and figure out the rest. Leapwork built something different. Our proprietary RSAT migration fusion gives teams a structured, visual environment to bring existing RSAT assets across in a way that is governed, reviewable, and quality-assured before anything reaches production. Teams inspect flows, resolve issues, validate output, and confirm readiness at every step of the process. Re-recording is minimized. Problems surface before import rather than after, where they cost significantly more to resolve. The flows that arrive on the Leapwork platform are cleaner and more reliable than the recordings they came from.
The migration workbench turns what is typically the most disruptive part of a platform transition into a controlled, confidence-building process. It is the reason organizations can move off of RSAT quickly, protect the institutional knowledge embedded in their existing test library, and start realizing value on the new platform without the extended rework cycle that unstructured migrations almost always produce.
Application-agnostic coverage is what a fully-integrated Dynamics estate requires.
Leapwork covers Dynamics 365 across every module and every connected application in the enterprise estate under a single continuous validation platform. The same platform that validates Finance and Operations validates Supply Chain Management, Commerce, Salesforce, SAP, Workday, Oracle, and every custom integration and legacy system the business depends on. Every business process, regardless of how many systems it crosses, runs under one governance layer with one consistent view of quality across every release cycle.
Every Microsoft release wave touches the full process chain that connects Dynamics to the rest of the enterprise. A validation strategy built to cover that chain in its entirety is the one that gives organizations genuine confidence in every update Microsoft ships, with full auditability, deterministic execution, and governance that meets the requirements of the most regulated industries in the world.
The RSAT deprecation puts a specific and well-defined opportunity in front of every Dynamics 365 customer. The validation infrastructure that the modern Dynamics estate requires is now the obvious destination for a migration that has to happen regardless. Leapwork is the Microsoft-vetted, enterprise-proven platform built to deliver it, covering far more than any single system and meeting every organization exactly where their Dynamics estate stands today.
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