The record lists the feature as in development, with preview targeted for November 2026 and general availability for January 2027. Those are planning dates, not confirmation that the feature is available: Microsoft explicitly says its roadmap dates are estimates and can change. The publicly rendered roadmap page did not expose this individual entry, so its precise schedule remains attributable to the roadmap record rather than independently corroborated live-entry content.
What the planned change covers
According to the roadmap record, organizations using the German localization would be able to include euBP information and transactional audit data through a single Audit Files Export process. Microsoft describes the intended outcome as more complete audit documentation with less manual preparation.
The listed deployment scope is:
- Product: Dynamics 365 Business Central.
- Localization: Germany.
- Platform: Web.
- Cloud: Worldwide, Standard Multi-Tenant.
- Availability stages: Preview and general availability.
That scope should not be stretched into an announcement of on-premises support, a minimum Business Central version, or a confirmed configuration procedure. The record does not establish those details.
Microsoft Learn provides supporting context for the direction of travel. Its German-localization overview lists euBP work as planned for 2026 release wave 2, while separately listing a GDPdU/GoBD update based on Audit Files Export for 2027 release wave 1. Existing German digital-audit export functionality is already marked available. These are related workstreams, not interchangeable release announcements.
A terminology trap: euBP is not “European Business Profile”
The roadmap description expands euBP as “European Business Profile.” In this German audit context, however, the relevant term is elektronisch unterstützte Betriebsprüfung—an electronically supported company audit administered by Deutsche Rentenversicherung, Germany’s pension-insurance authority. Its process involves data from payroll and financial accounting. The roadmap’s English wording should therefore not be treated as an authoritative definition of the German procedure.
More importantly, preparing an export is not the same as completing an euBP submission. Deutsche Rentenversicherung says transmission must use system-tested payroll or financial-accounting software. It explicitly rules out transmission through a GDPdU/GoBD export. Nothing in this roadmap record establishes that the planned Business Central package alone completes that process or proves certification for transmission.
That distinction is the difference between a better-packed audit folder and a successful delivery—not merely administrative fine print.
How this differs from existing audit exports
Business Central already documents a German GoBD/GDPdU export mechanism in which organizations select tables and fields according to an auditor’s requirements. That mechanism produces ASCII data files and an accompanying INDEX.XML file describing their structure. Those documented formats belong to the existing digital-audit process; they do not establish the format of the planned euBP addition.
There is another useful boundary. Microsoft describes the general Audit Files Export extension as preinstalled, but says the framework itself does not include a preinstalled export format. A specific-format app or custom implementation supplies that part. Consequently, the presence of Audit Files Export in a tenant is not evidence that this German capability is already configured or usable.
The practical interpretation is workflow consolidation: Microsoft intends to bring additional audit information into an established export process. The record does not yet demonstrate a complete replacement for existing German audit and submission arrangements.
What administrators should prepare to validate
For Business Central administrators and finance teams, the sensible next step is a validation checklist—not an invented click-by-click setup guide:
- Confirm eligibility. Match the eventual release documentation to the German localization and the organization’s deployment.
- Inspect the output. Establish which euBP-related fields and transactions are included, and which period they represent.
- Check format requirements. Confirm any required format extension, mappings, permissions, and validation rules.
- Keep transmission ownership explicit. Ask the software provider or service partner which system handles submission and its acknowledgments.
The format and submission checks follow directly from Microsoft’s distinction between the export framework and its formats, and Deutsche Rentenversicherung’s separate transmission requirements.
The bottom line: this is a narrowly scoped but potentially useful Business Central improvement for German audit preparation. Treat the November 2026 preview and January 2027 general-availability dates as targets, and judge the finished capability by its documented contents and validated workflow—not by the reassuring sound of a single export button.