New User Licensing Reports in PU12
One glaring omission from previous versions of AX and D365FO is user licensing reporting. In the past this was a very manual process to determine what licenses were tied to roles and users. In PU12, the first user license reports have been added: User License Counts...
Auditing User Logins for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations in PU11
Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (D365FO) has added new functionality surrounding the auditing of user logins with PU11. The new feature can be found by going to System Administration -> User Log From here you are presented with 3 different tabs, on the...
Advanced Security Feature Changes in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
I've written in the past about some of the security changes from Dynamics AX 2012 and Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. There are also more advanced security feature changes as well including Entry Point Security, Table Permission Framework, and environmental...
Security and Audit Field Manual for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise Edition Book Announcement
For the last couple of months, the Fastpath team has been working on taking our in-depth knowledge of D365FO security, audit, and compliance to create an educational book on the topic. I'm very pleased to announce that the Security and Audit Field Manual for Dynamics...
How to Simulate the Security Development Tool in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations using View With Role Set
In an earlier blog post I went into great detail on the changes to the Security Development Tool from AX 2012 to D365FO: How To Simulate the Security Development Tool in D365FO In that post, I pointed out that one of the features that was currently missing was the...
New Out of Box Security Reporting in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
Microsoft has added some additional new security reports that can be accessed through the web application. These can be found by going to System Administration -> Inquiries -> Security. Under this section you will find four reports: User Role Assignments...
New Security Data Entities in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations PU8
With Platform Update 8, Microsoft has added some more data entities surrounding security. SecuritySubRoles - shows the relationship between role -> subroles SecurityDuties - shows relationship between role -> duties, this could be used if using the out of box...
Changes to X++ Development in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
While the end user experience has changed dramatically from AX 2012 to D365FO, arguably the bigger changes are to the development side. This post will go through some of the highlights of this and hopefully give a better understanding of some of the changes that will...
Security Reporting for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations in the AOT
Reporting on security within Dynamics AX/365FO has always been tough but there looks to be a push to improve this reporting. Reports have been slowly making appearances as new D365FO releases emerge but in kind of a hidden place, in the Dynamics 365 Visual Studio...
Determining User Licenses in Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations
NOTE: Microsoft's licensing methodology has been updated, please refer to this post for a more up to date overview: https://alexdmeyer.com/2021/01/25/current-state-of-d365fo-user-licensing/ Microsoft's licensing in Dynamics AX and Dynamics 365 for Finance &...
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