Image generated by Microsoft DesignerFor various reasons, you would like to read business data from or write data to the Dynamics 365 F&O database without enforcing security in the user context. For example, a user might not have access to various tables, like parameters or configuration. In this post, I talk about how to access and write data using the X++ unchecked statement.
The posts on Dynamicspedia.com linked with the XDS tag, are topics related to the usage of the eXtensible Data Security framework in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.
You will find examples and tips to get started and learn how to create your own security policies using XDS.
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Image by Wilfried Pohnke from PixabayRecently, I discovered two new security roles in the application that seem to have a relation with eXtensible Data Security (XDS). Anything related to security and for that reason also XDS intrigues me. In this post, you will read about the two new security roles and how they can be useful, or not…
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Image by Pexels from Pixabay 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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Recently, I was speaking about eXtensible Data Security (XDS) at a meetup session for the Pakistan Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Community. I did a similar session several years ago and created three examples back then as part of the demonstrations of what would be possible to achieve with this framework for record-based security. For this recent session, based on a question on the Dynamics Community forum, I created a new example for restricting access to the projects and related information for a person who is one of the responsible persons. In this post, I will provide some more background information on the functional and technical details.
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