2026-08-21

Dynamics 365 Virtual Entities - Simply Explained

What happens when your sales team works in Dynamics 365, but inventory lives in a warehouse system, invoices live in finance, and product information lives in an ERP? You could copy all that information into Dataverse, but then you create duplicate records, synchronization jobs, delays, and another place where information can become outdated. In this episode of M365 FM, Mirko Peters explains how Dynamics 365 Virtual Tables, formerly known as Virtual Entities, provide live access to external business data without requiring Dynamics 365 to store another copy. WHAT ARE DYNAMICS 365 VIRTUAL TABLES? A Virtual Table is a table definition inside Microsoft Dataverse that points to records stored somewhere else. Dataverse understands what the information looks like—such as product name, available quantity, price, or invoice status—but the actual records remain in the external system. Think of it

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