Category Archives: Security

Tip – Manage access to Price Lists in Dynamics CRM

Introduction: Access to entities in Microsoft Dynamics CRM aka Dynamics 365 Sales is controlled through Security Roles. Using the robust Security framework of CRM you can not only manage access per record but also per action and field 🙂 Advanced Security configuration can also support hierarchy security and control access to records for multiple users in… Read More »

Enable Auditing with Office 365 Security & Compliance Center

Introduction: One of the most important needs of an enterprise application is maintaining Audit Log. Dynamics CRM has been supporting auditing for a while now. You need to enable Auditing at the org levelAnd then at the individual entity and attribute level to decide the fields that you want audited.Have you ever thought of maintaining… Read More »

Connect with People Using Office 365 Groups in Dynamics CRM Online

Introduction: Office 365 Groups is one of the interesting and useful feature introduced in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. It is a fine collaboration of CRM user and non-CRM user. Users can share emails, documents, files, etc. with their group members even if they do not have CRM access. This blog will discuss about the installation… Read More »

Security Enhancement in Dynamics CRM 2015

An additional feature has been added in Security Model with the 2015 release. This is an extension to the existing security model in which we use business units, security roles and teams. The hierarchy security offers a more access to records from an organization. You can maintain the hierarchy with two different types of security… Read More »

A Tip while Working with Field Level Security

Recently we came across a situation. We had a workflow in which we used a field which had field level security enabled on it. There was a custom field called “Credit Amount” that existed on the Account and had a field security enabled on it. The workflow in which we were using this field checked… Read More »

How Security Role Privileges are Inherited from Team to User

If there are multiple users, business units and teams in any CRM system, then it is not necessary that every user has maximum rights/ privileges/ roles. There are situations where a minimum permission user should be able to create an entity record for which individually it does not have rights but his/ her team has… Read More »

Customize and Personalize Office 365 Portal

Every time Microsoft comes up with some new features and extension to their services and this is one of them. You can now customize and personalize your office 365 portal experience by using one of the new features provided by Microsoft called themes. You can now have your own custom themes applied to the portal… Read More »