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I’m starting this blog about security with the words Less is More! This is a concept about simplicity. In life, we look at certain things in an overcomplicated way or try to make them too advanced. We don’t see it ourselves until someone helps us think in a different direction. When you just start working with Dynamics 365 and the security architecture, you might wonder why you sometimes don’t have the permissions or data visible as you would expect. In this blog, I will share some scenarios and background information where by granting more security roles, the user will have fewer permissions than expected on particular features.

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Usually, when you add a menu item to a privilege and set the correct permissions, the user will be able to open the form linked to the menu item. However, it is not a guarantee that you would be able to open the form as there is another prerequisite in the security framework in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations. In this post, I will elaborate on the additional requirement and provide some thoughts using an example.

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Security configuration repair

First of all, I would like to wish you all the best, luck, and health for the new year. Yesterday, I published a blog explaining the Synchronize all button on the Security configuration form. Directly in the new year, there is a kind of related blog. The relation between these two blogs is that it is not clearly documented what exactly these buttons are about. When you click one of these two buttons in a normal running environment, you will see a message “Please wait. We’re processing your request.” for a few seconds and you don’t see anything changing at first sight.

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Security configuration synchronize all

It’s the end of the year 2021 and I would like to add one final post for this year. Together with this blog, I’m also preparing my first blog for 2022. This blog will be about the Synchronize all button on the Security configuration form. The next blog is about the Repair button. These two buttons have one thing in common. If you open the Security configuration form in a normal operating environment, these buttons will show the text “Please wait. We’re processing your request.” and nothing seems to happen. In this post, I will explain the purpose of the first-mentioned button and you can find the new blog on January 1, 2022 named: Security configuration – What is the ‘Repair’ button?

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