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...
Current State of D365FO User Licensing for May 2020
I've written about user licensing in D365FO in the past but because of the numerous changes Microsoft has made to licensing in the past six months I wanted to start doing periodic updates to give a current state of licensing. There are currently two different...
Easily Create a Read Only Role in D365FO
I have gotten the question of creating a 'read only' or 'view only' role many times in the past so I thought I would show the process of how I created one. There are many reasons that a read only role would be needed: Executive/Upper Management users who need access...
Best Practice for Moving D365FO Security Between Environments
One of the questions I get quite often is now that I know that security created/modified from the AOT is stored differently than security created/modified from the user interface, what is the best way to move security between environments effectively and ensure the...
How to Continue to Use the Table Browser Functionality Within D365FO
While using D365FO it is sometimes helpful to be able to view the actual data within a particular table from a web browser. This has previously been done via the SysTableBrowser menu item display, but recently there was a message on the D365UG forum that trying to...
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