by Alex | May 25, 2021 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
Blog Post Co-Writer This blog post was written in conjunction with Matthias Leplae. He reached out to me inquiring about my past D365FO licensing blog posts and asked why I hadn’t written about license multiplexing and to be honest it was a topic I knew about...
by Alex | May 19, 2021 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
I recently posted a video of a new project I have been working on to help with security testing in D365FO. I am now ready to officially release the D365FO Security Test Workspace solution in a Beta state for testing and feedback so I wanted to give an overview of how...
by Alex | May 3, 2021 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
I’ve written in the past about different security features that are native to D365FO, but in most cases these features require elevated privileges or even the System Administrator role to be accessible. But is there a way to grant these security features to...
by Alex | Apr 6, 2021 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
In the past, I have talked about that there are two separate licensing mechanisms in D365FO: entry point and privilege based. I have recently found that there is a third… the Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide itself. Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide This is an almost 60...
by Alex | Apr 2, 2021 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
I have used the MetadataSupport library in X++ to help get metadata information for tables, menu items, and data entities in the past. I have also used it for enums but recently found an issue when dealing with enum extensions. I initially wrote the logic to get enum...
by Alex | Mar 29, 2021 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
One security issue I’ve seen in D365FO, especially from those that have updated from AX 2012, is the idea that company/legal entity restrictions only need to be applied to the System User role and no other roles assigned to a user. What is the rationale behind...
