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How to reverse engineer feature management features

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Feature recommendation notifications under the hood

For several years, Microsoft does have a dashboard with new and enhanced features that can be enabled by administrators to first evaluate the added value or impact on the current implementation. This will give organizations some time to choose when to enable new features. Features can also be turned on by default as a decision by Microsoft or made mandatory at a specific point in time. As mentioned in my previous blog about feature management, some features are like a black box, even with documentation provided by Microsoft. This blog provides guidance if you want to learn more about how to reverse engineer features and in particular Feature recommendation notifications.

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Workflow security in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations

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When working with workflow in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, the users should have proper permissions to be able to not only approve but also submit documents to the workflow. There is no easy guidance on which roles, duties, or privileges to use to ensure having the correct permissions. In case you build up privileges from scratch, you might have questions about how to include the correct permissions for the workflow. In this post, you will learn about the security architecture for workflows and I will share some tips.

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Securing a menu item is not enough – table permissions

Security Table Permissions

In the two earlier posts, I talked about missing parts and controls when you would create privileges from scratch. In this post, I will continue explaining about reasons for missing elements on forms due to table permissions. Or maybe you would like to restrict certain fields from being visible to users.

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Securing a menu item is not enough – form controls

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In my previous blog post, I talked about missing parts on forms when you only focus on granting permissions on menu items. This is mainly the case if you start privileges and duties from scratch to ensure a least permissions principle. Form parts are a type of form control where security can be managed with other menu items. There is more to take into account next to the previously discussed form parts. There are also other form controls where you need to take care of permissions in another way. This blog post is an addition to my previous post where you will now read about additional form control permissions on privileges.

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