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 […]
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 […]
…and then you find yourself responsible for setting up a security and authorization policy in AX, or worse, you inherit somebody else’s twisted logic. Up to version 6, Dynamics AX has always been lacking a solid authorization framework. In 2012 Redmond decided to make up for this, and boy did they make up. They didn’t just come up with a security system that actually works, they made it so that even the brightest minds will have a hard time coming […]