A few years ago, I wrote a blog post about how to use Azure Active Directory for managing users and security in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. In the meantime, Microsoft renamed Azure Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID. In my blog, I provided how to manage users and provide access permissions by using security groups on Entra ID. Access permissions in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations are then inherited from a group user. Using this option has some downsides, mainly related to not having security roles directly assigned to the user. I contributed a new feature to the D365FO Admin Toolkit with an enhanced Entra ID group integration feature. You can read more about this new feature in this post.
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