How to Secure Form Fields Populated By Data Methods in D365FO
I have written in the past about using field level security to help secure sensitive information within your D365FO environment, but what if the field you want to secure doesn't correlate directly to a SQL table field and instead is populated by a data method? Let's...
My First Microsoft MVP Summit
Last week I got to experience my first Microsoft MVP Summit in person since becoming an MVP in November of 2019. It was great to see old friends and meet new ones (face to face!) in the Business Application for D365FO space. So many great sessions, information being...
Spring 2023 – Presenting at Upcoming User Group Conferences
I’m excited to be speaking in-person at a couple upcoming conferences and sharing my knowledge and expertise! Here are two spring 2023 conferences I am speaking at! DynamicsCon Live! DynamicsCon Live! is being hosted in Scottsdale, Arizona from May 22nd - May 25th and...
Utilizing Telemetry Data Within D365FO
I've written before about the telemetry data now available in D365FO, but is there a way to consume this telemetry data within the application itself? Let's see how we could do this! Problem Statement In our case let's see if we could automatically disable users that...
Potential Upcoming Licensing Changes in D365FO?
Going off of recent posts where I was looking for things that have been upgraded recently, I noticed in 10.0.30 and 10.0.31 that there were some changes to the LicensingServicePlansPrivilege table within D365FO. I started noticing the 'Activity' license showing up in...
Netmodule File Missing Error in 10.0.31
If you are partner, ISV, or anyone delivering custom code to end users in D365FO, there is a change in 10.0.31 that you need to know about. Issue If you have a customer that upgrades to 10.0.31 and the next time they try to check in a deployable package to their...
Security & Audit Features Added in 10.0.31
The latest platform release notes for D365FO 10.0.31 has recently been made public, there were a couple security and audit related features I wanted to highlight. 'Can Be Deleted From UI' Security Role Property There is a new property on security roles called 'Can Be...
Interesting Issue With the SecurityUserRoleOrganization Data Entity in D365FO
Data entities within D365FO allow for external applications to interact with D365FO data. One data entity that I use both professionally and in my personal projects fairly regularly is SecurityUserRoleOrganization. This data entity is utilized to restrict a user role...
Overview of Telemetry Data in D365FO
In the 10.0.30 release of D365FO, which went GA on Oct 21st 2022, Microsoft added the ability for customers to report on the telemetry data of their end users. I wanted to take a quick overview of this feature and start to look at opportunities to use this data....
D365FO Extensible Data Security (XDS) Scenarios
I recently attended the Dynamic Communities North America Summit Conference and presented numerous sessions surrounding security and licensing in D365FO. One of my new sessions was around Extensible Data Security (XDS) and I was a little worried about such a technical...