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Setup demo users

Some years back, I did provide a blog post where you could change some settings on the Contoso demo users and login using the original credentials. Like many other things, there was a change done by Microsoft. As partners and customers, we were not allowed anymore to use the Azure AD credentials from Microsoft Contoso demo users. Microsoft on their turn provided a blog which guides you to reuse the users with credentials from your own Azure Active Directory. Every time I had to deploy a new environment, it took me some time to setup users which I wanted to use for demos or testing. I got the idea to solve this with a script using Microsoft Flow. In this post, I will tell about this and you may download and use it for your own environments.

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When you deploy a machine with the new Microsoft Dynamics AX on Azure or download a virtual machine, the environment contains users with restricted rights. In previous versions of Dynamics AX you could directly use the Contoso users for your demonstrations to show what it looks like when a user has only certain roles assigned. In Microsoft Dynamics AX you will receive an error when the user is not recognized in your own tenant. This post will tell you how you can use the Contoso personas within your own environment without creating new demonstration users in your own Azure Active Directory.

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