Security roles and authorization in Dynamics AX (Part 3)

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authorized

Continued from part 2 In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.No matter how well you plan your authorization, you will run into ad-hoc issues requiring ad-hoc remedies. In part 3 of the series on authorization I’ll share some tips and tricks that might come in handy. The AX2012 Security Development Tool Saying that the authorization framework in AX is not very user-friendly is an understatement. The good people in Redmond recognized this fact […]

Security roles and authorization in Dynamics AX (Part 2)

Posted on by Francesco
Monitoring cameras

Continued from part 1 This is the second part of my article about Security roles and authorization in Dynamics AX. Out of the box AX comes loaded with predefined security roles. Isn’t that great? Welllll….no. I never had much use for them, not even as a starting point for bigger and better things. With the possible exception of the CEO there is no such thing as a standard role in any organization. It is tempting to simply assign standard roles […]