Workflow and security do have strong relation in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations. A user not assigned to a workflow task can’t approve a workflow instance. Also, the user should have correct permissions from the security settings as I explained before in another blog. (Workflow security in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations)

In this blog, I will explain the behavior of a setting available on the Workflow parameters form, called Require explicitly assigned users.

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Copilot Navigation Preview

This week, I presented about AI in Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O together with Hylke Britstra at a Dutch Dynamics Community event. While preparing for the session, I created some demos to extend the Copilot sidecar and found some hints in the coding for using natural language to navigate the application. I will elaborate on the upcoming feature and show you how you can already enable the option to use Copilot for opening e.g. the Workflow history page.

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Invalid Users

Starting in Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O version 10.0.39, Microsoft enforced security guidelines for external users. Effectively, Microsoft disabled the cross-tenant access in Dynamics 365 F&O. This means that external users from a different tenant, can’t log in to Dynamics 365 unless they are created as a guest user in your own client. In this post, I will elaborate on the change, how it can impact your environments and how to setup external users correctly.

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Security in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (F&O) is not easy. When you want to define custom roles, this also has a licensing impact. Sometimes, you expect a particular license for your role, but the application states something different. In this post, I will provide a scenario where the license expectation is a Team members SKU as the intention is to have a read only role, but the role will end up as Operations license.

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