GDPR Features in Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a crucial new regulation especially for companies that have EU users or deal with EU companies. This regulation went into effect starting on May 25th 2018. Microsoft has released a number of features in D365FO to help...
Summit EMEA 2018 Recap
I spent the last week in Dublin, Ireland with about 2000 good friends learning about all that Microsoft has done and is looking to do with the Dynamics 365 platform, specifically around Sales (CRM) and Finance and Operations (AX) as well as the PowerBI platform that...
Getting D365FO Object Labels in .NET
With the redesign of the X++ compiler (that I go over in depth in this post) to allow for interfacing with C#/.NET in D365FO I've tried every chance I get to code my complex business logic in .NET instead of X++. Mostly because, as a .NET developer by trade, I feel...
Creating a Workspace Programmatically in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
Today, I wanted to write a slightly more development related blog post to talk about workspaces in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. A workspace is the main navigational tool from the homepage of D365FO that serves as a 'landing area' for a business activity. A...
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...
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