
Tool To Help Migrate D365FO Security Between Environments
After a great week at Summit 2019 time to get back at it! One of the things I heard repeatedly throughout the sessions I did and numerous people who stopped by our booth was that moving/migrating D365FO security between environments is extremely difficult and not...
October 2019 User Licensing Update to Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations
On October 1st 2019, Microsoft released a new licensing guide for the Dynamics 365 business application suite with a number of updates. This licensing update only applies to the cloud version of D365FO and does not apply to on-premise installs. New Licensing Model (as...
Upcoming Sessions at Dynamics Communities User Group Summit 2019
With the calendar switching to October we are officially in the home stretch of the run up to Summit 2019 in Orlando, Florida. As always there is a wide variety of amazing sessions, presentations, and networking to be had. I have a number of sessions surrounding...
Does Licensing in D365FO Consider the Deny Permission?
I have a very interesting licensing scenario I recently ran into surrounding using the deny permission. With the move to D365FO, the deny permission allows for explicitly revoking access to an object, this in turn, should also impact the licensing to a user, role,...
The Spring 2019 Version of the Security and Audit Field Manual: Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations Has Been Released
The Fastpath team recently released the spring 2019 version of our security and audit series for D365FO. The technical aspects of the book have been updated to reflect the OneVersion releases of D365FO. I would like to thank Mark Polino, Trish Boccuti, and Heather...
How To Utilize the Deny Permission in Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations
One new piece of security functionality in D365FO is the idea of having an explicit deny access level available to assign. I've written about this access level permission in the past and how it overrides any other grants made to this object when assigned to the user....
Data Entity Filtering in Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations
Data entities were introduced in D365FO to provide a way for external services to interact with business processes within D365FO without having to know or understand how the inner workings of that data was stored. It was built on top of the OData protocol which...
Field Level Security in Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations
I've written in the past about Least Privilege Security in D365FO but one aspect I haven't covered yet is the process of setting up field level security in D365FO. In D365FO, entry point security has changed slightly from AX 2012 and has simplified security by...
Biggest Takeaways From Microsoft BizApp Summit 2019
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...
Can Users Access D365FO With a License Type of None?
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 my my earlier post...