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...
by Alex | Feb 5, 2019 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
The month of March will be very busy for myself and other colleagues at Fastpath as we will presenting sessions at Dynamics Communities conferences as well as leading an academy session. Academy Class – March 4th This Dynamics Communities academy class will be a...
by Alex | Jan 30, 2019 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
With the push in D365FO for automating everything from deployment to servicing to testing one of the questions I’ve heard numerous times is how do you perform/is it possible to perform automated role access testing? This comes into play for a number of reasons:...
by Alex | Jan 24, 2019 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
In the past, I’ve written about the Table Permission Framework functionality within D365FO but recently I’ve had numerous examples of this causing D365FO users issues when setting up security. Because of this, I wanted to write about it again to explain...
by Alex | Jan 13, 2019 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
One thing I’ve been asked about numerous times and has caused confusion while using the user interface to set up security is some interesting behavior regarding objects showing up in the ‘Unpublished Objects’ area when no changes are made by the...
