2020 Release 2 In Preview Tenants

 2020 R2 - Available In Preview Tenants

With around 300 new or enhanced features Workday geared up for the new 2020 Release 2. As you all know we have two releases every year, its the version change (upgrade) of Workday in the second half of this year too. This is the second release in this year, the last one was in the month of March 2020 [2020 R1].

The preview tenants will get the version change one month prior to the release in Production. On the 8th of August 2020 we got the Preview tenants (Sandbox Preview and Implementation Preview) upgraded with the latest version i.e. 2020 R2. 

Here are some details regarding the Release. 

Aug  8,  2020 - Features available for Preview (Sandbox Preview, Implementation Preview)

Sep 12,  2020 - 2020 R2 available in all tenants (PROD, Sandbox, Implementation also)

Workday Data Centers - Workday Tenants

Here are the Sandbox Preview URLs that you can pick to login according to your organizations data centers.. Make sure you give your tenant name:

Atlanta:   impl.workday.com/<tenantname_preview>/login.htmld

Portland: wd5-impl.workday.com/<tenantname_preview>/login.htmld

WD3:       wd3-impl.workday.com/ <tenantname_preview> /login.htmld

WD10:     impl.wd10.myworkday.com/ <tenantname_preview> /login.htmld

WD12:     impl.wd12.myworkday.com/ <tenantname_preview> /login.htmld

WD102:   impl.wd102.myworkday.com/<tenantname_preview>/login.htmld

Access  the below Standard reports to see the new features and enhancements.

What's new in Workday

What's new in Last 7 days

What's new in Last 6 Months

What's new in Workday Data Sources

What's new in Workday Report Fields

What's new in Workday Reports

Which Tenant Version I am in?

Which Workday Tenant Version I'm in?

Many of us will have a question as what is the version that I have currently logged in, to identify that you need to access the task Workday System Status . Make sure you have security access to this task.

Also you can rely on What's New in Workday report. Make sure to understand Workday Schedules to get a picture of the upcoming version in the preview tenant.

Workday 33

Getting Ready for Workday 33

As we know we are currently on Workday 32 as of today (08/08/2019), there is a new release in the coming month Sep '19 i.e. Workday 33

August       3,  2019 - Features available for Preview

September 7,  2019 - Workday 33 will be available in all tenants

So we have the features available to preview in our preview tenants. Along with that, we get couple of documents where you can see and identify the new features or enhancements.

Below are the documents / resources you can follow:

Announcing and Feature Considerations Workday 33 ALL

What's New in Workday Preview as of 2019-06-28

What's New in Workday Report for Workday 33 - Additional Items

Workday Schedules ( Service Updates )

Feature Releases and Service Updates

There are two Types of Schedules that you can notice in Workday. One is Feature release which is like an upgrade and the other being Service updates which is like regular maintenance, or applying patches, fixes.

 Feature release:

Workday Feature releases occur 2 times per year. Version Change happens with every Feature release. (Not Future release)

Do remember every single customer will be on the same version and it is the latest version.

This includes New or Feature releases, Enhancements, Bug Fixes, additional Packaged Integrations etc.,
When Workday rollout the updates, the customer system automatically converts to the newest release.
Tenants are not available during the Feature release Weekend (which happens 2 times every year)

Dates: ( 2019 - 20 - 21 Schedule )

Previous Version - 32

February 4, 2019 - Features available for Preview

March     9,  2019 - Workday 32 available in all tenants

Previous Version - 33

August       3,  2019 - Features available for Preview

September 7,  2019 - Workday 33 available in all tenants

Here on the Versions are called with Year and Release, Example: 2020R1 , 2020R2 instead of WD34, WD35

Previous Version - Workday 2020 Release 1

February 1,  2020 - Features available for Preview

March      7,  2020 - 2020R1 available in all tenants

Previous Version - Workday 2020 Release 2

August        8,  2020 - Features available for Preview

September 12,  2020 - 2020R2 available in all tenants

Upcoming Version - Workday 2021 Release 1

February 6,  2021 - Features available for Preview

March    13,  2021 - 2021R1 available in all tenants

Service Updates:

Fixes are applied every Friday during Scheduled timings in the service updates.

During the scheduled updates you will notice the tenant will be down and a message saying "Workday is currently unavailable." with the duration of outage. Its generally a 12 hour window on a weekend for Non-Production environments.