
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...
Current State of D365FO User Licensing for October 2020
Microsoft recently released the 10.0.14(PU38) version of D365FO and along with that came a couple of changes for user licensing. Resource Updates I have updated the privilege to license SKU report that is available as a free resource from Fastpath. This report will...
Upcoming Sessions at Dynamic Communities Summit North America 2020
It's that time of year again for the Dynamic Communities Summit North America conference coming up the week of October 5th - 9th. Obviously this year will be slightly different as the entire conference will be virtual but I will again be presenting a number of...
The Spring 2020 Edition of the Security and Audit Field Manual: D365FO Has Been Released
The Fastpath team has released the Spring 2020 version of our Security and Audit Field Manual series for D365FO. The technical aspects of the book include features and functionality that I have found in the last year surrounding the security, audit, and compliance...
Current State of D365FO User Licensing for August 2020
Updating Process for Determining User Licensing In this post I don't have any new or changing information to share about user licensing in D365FO, but I wanted to clarify the steps for determining user licensing diagram from my last post. I've revamped the flow of the...
Issue with Revoking SysAdmin Role via OData in D365FO
I recently ran into an interesting issue with OData that I wanted to share. Within our Fastpath product suite we have a tool called Identity Manager that helps with the compliant provisioning, modification, and termination of user and user role assignments. Our...
Vote for DynamicsCon Sessions Before August 1st
In today's world of virtual events it is easy to not know which are worth attending. But what if I told you there was a free Dynamics 365 conference where the attendees vote on which sessions will be presented. And a majority of the presenters are either Microsoft...
Current State of D365FO User Licensing for July 2020
I wanted to give a periodic update about user licensing in D365FO for July 2020. With the GA release of 10.0.12/PU36 there has been some changes regarding user licensing to address some of the issues I went over in my previous user licensing post in May. Here are some...