by Alex | Jun 12, 2019 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
With Microsoft’s Business Application Summit 2019 wrapping up in Atlanta, I thought I would share my thoughts on the biggest takeaways from the conference in my opinion. New OneVersion Release Schedule Instead of doing 12 separate monthly updates, Microsoft is...
by Alex | May 20, 2019 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
I recently saw a question posted on a forum regarding what license Microsoft assigns a user that has no license requirement based on their entry point access. I didn’t really have an answer as I hadn’t ran into this scenario and I didn’t cover it in...
by Alex | Apr 25, 2019 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
One question I’ve had throughout the releases of D365FO has been why there wasn’t an ‘Undo’ or ‘Remove’ for a security change made within the user interface. Before security changes go live into the system, they first go to a...
by Alex | Mar 4, 2019 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
There are a couple questions I get/issues I see quite often around setting up security in the D365FO user interface so I figured I would make a post around things to watch out for. Security is still hierarchy based, and needs to be created in that way One of the...
by Alex | Feb 20, 2019 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
The Extensible Data Security (XDS) framework is a feature in D365FO and AX 2012 that allows users to supplement role based security and allow access to tables to be restricted by a policy. This feature was an evolution of the record-level security that existed in...
by Alex | Feb 10, 2019 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
In AX 2012 you had the ability to use Active Directory groups to help manage security within the application. The basic setup behind this was that you would: Create an AD group and put in the AX users you wanted to be controlled by that group Create the AD group...
