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...
Current State of D365FO User Licensing
Since I've written multiple posts on this topic in the past, I thought it would be a good idea to combine the different posts and create a place that I can continually update with the latest information. So going forward, while I will still have individual posts on...
Voting is Open for DynamicsCon Sessions Until January 22nd
Voting for submitted DynamicsCon sessions (the FREE virtual conference that is taking place March 16 - 18th 2021) is now open until January 22nd! There are a lot of great sessions so be sure to go get registered for the conference and vote on sessions! I have one solo...
Upcoming Sessions at Power Community D365 FinOps Summit January 29-31 2021
I will be presenting two sessions at the upcoming free Power Community D365 FinOps Summit being held from January 29th - 31st 2021. Be sure to register for the conference and mark your calendars as there are a lot of great sessions available! Common Security Mistakes...
How to Connect Power BI to D365FO Service Operation Endpoint
In the past, I have written about connecting Power BI to a Custom API data source. Now I'd like to talk about connecting Power BI to a custom D365FO service operations endpoint. In this example, I am going to use the Fastpath Audit Trail service operation endpoints we...
Current State of D365FO User Licensing December 2020
With D365FO 10.0.15 now generally available, its time to look to see what has been updated for user licensing. There are definitely some updates in this release! If we navigate to System Administration -> Security -> Security Configuration -> Go to a...
How to Fix ‘The devInstall option is not applicable to the current deployable package’ Error
If you are trying to install a deployable package via command line using the AXUpdateInstaller.exe devinstall command like is shown in the Microsoft documentation and get this error: Here are the steps you can take to fix this issue, run the following commands:...
Announcing the Release of my Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations Security Course
If you are looking for an in-depth D365FO security course that will take you from a security novice with no prior knowledge of the subject to having a deep understanding of security, audit, and compliance topics and functionality within D365FO. This is the course for...
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