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Licensing Advent Calendar

With Day 12, I posted half of the promised blogs as part of the Licensing Advent Calendar. When you read all other posts, you now know to find which users require what license(s), what roles are assigned, what causes the requirement for particular license SKUs, which application elements are not entitled to particular licenses per security role, and how these elements are connected to security roles via privileges and duties. Now you need to know if security roles can be adjusted to lower licenses and what privileges should be adjusted or replaced. Read more to find out how to find these privileges.

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Licensing Advent Calendar

Another door unlocked for the Licensing Advent Calendar. Today, a post about the Dynamics 365 F&O security architecture. It is important to know about this to understand how the securable elements that are part of the calculation are linked to the security roles and the users. It will be the basis for knowing what to do for mitigating excessive license requirements.

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Licensing Advent Calendar

Day 10! So far, I’ve gotten a lot of questions and feedback. Thanks for all the interactions. Even from experienced people, I get messages saying that most of the content is familiar, but still, there are some things mentioned in the blogs that they were not aware of. The post today will be like that. Everyone is likely aware of the Licenses usage summary page, but not everyone has the same number of tab pages. Curious about that?

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Licensing Advent Calendar

So far, during the Advent Calendar, I talked about license reporting outside of Dynamics 365 F&O. There are still some topics to talk about on PPAC, but I will first focus on User security governance features related to licensing in the Dynamics 365 F&O application.

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