D365FO User Licensing Update April 2021
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 page...
Why You Need To Be Careful When Using The MetadataSupport Library For Enums in D365FO
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...
Should You Apply Company Restrictions to All User Roles?
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 this?...
Getting Table Field Information for Form Entry in D365FO
There are many instances where you need to know exactly which table field is tied to an entry on a form: Interested in applying table field level security Want to turn on some type of audit trail tracking So how do we go about doing this? Right Click -> Form...
Comparing X++ vs .NET Performance and Memory Usage on Large Collections
After taking a little hiatus from writing I have a backlog of things that I need to catch up on for my blog. The first is a scenario I ran into recently while helping clients and has to deal with X++ and .NET performance and memory usage differences. Some Background...
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