Parent Category: SECURITY IN GP

This section focuses strictly on Dynamics GP Security, you or your system administrator will learn how to manage users in the application, determine who has access to what functions, how to produce access lists for auditors, and much more. Some of the security items like User Security, Account Security, Field Security, Task Security, Report Writers and Security Best Practices will be available under the section.

• Here you will find the Why does Microsoft Dynamics GP encrypt passwords? and the excellent Microsoft Dynamics GP Application Level Security Series by David Musgrave along with other articles on security.
• Going into specifics under Field Level Security you will find a post on Simple Field Level Security by Steve Chapman.
• There’s also a great post on Audit Trail codes – different prefix’s in different companies Microsoft Dynamics GP by Ian Stewart.

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You Can’t Deny security to some Windows in Dynamics GP

http://msdynamicsgp.blogspot.com/2010/07/you-cant-deny-security-to-some-windows.html

Leslie Vail has a new post up looking at internal windows which can’t controlled via GP…

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Forget Last Logged User Name?!?!

http://mohdaoud.blogspot.com/2010/06/forget-last-logged-user-name.html

Deep discussion between the GP experts was done through the days, and the simplest option was to remove “SQLLastUser” from DEX.ini…

Posted by Mohammad R. Daoud

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Why does Microsoft Dynamics GP encrypt passwords?

http://mohdaoud.blogspot.com/2008/10/why-does-microsoft-dynamics-gp-encrypt.html

Why does Microsoft Dynamics GP encrypt passwords?

Check post below:

http://blogs.msdn.com/developingfor…

Posted by Mohammad Daoud

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Account Level Security Setup

http://msdynamicsgp.blogspot.com/2010/06/account-level-security-setup.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DynamicAccounting+%28Dynamic+Accounting%29

Mohammad Daoud has a great look at setting up Account Level Security. The only addition I would…

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A Morning spent with Passwords!

http://belindaallen.blogspot.com/2010/07/morning-spent-with-passwords.html

I just spent the morning working with a client improving passwords.

If your GP uses SQL 2005 or higher, you can set policies that make sure passwords are set…

Posted by Belinda, the GP CSI

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DYNSA

http://dynamicsgpblogster.blogspot.com/2010/07/dynsa.html

There are a number of good blog posts in the community explaining the differences between sa, Microsoft SQL Server's defacto administrative user; and DYNSA, Microsoft Dynamics GP defacto administrative user. In reading a number of these articles I realized one thing: they address little about the DYNSA user.

So what's DYNSA?

You only have to read back a few lines to obtain this answer, however, I want take another direction. Let's start by saying that in Microsoft SQL Server, every database is created with a dbo user. Take for example this blank database created using SQL Server Management Studio:



The dbo is a user that has implied permissions to perform all activities in the database. Any member of the sysadmin fixed server role (like sa for example) who uses a database is mapped to the special user inside each database called dbo. Also, any object created by any member of the sysadmin fixed server role belongs to dbo automatically.

For example, if user DYNSA is a member of the sysadmin fixed server role and…

Posted by Mariano Gomez

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The DYNSA user in Dynamics GP

http://msdynamicsgp.blogspot.com/2010/07/dynsa-user-in-dynamics-gp.html

Mariano is back looking at the DYNSA user in Microsoft Dynamics GP. What is it? What does…

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Enforcing Password Policy with Microsoft Dynamics GP

http://msdynamicsgp.blogspot.com/2010/07/enforcing-password-policy-with.html

I told you earlier that Mariano was cooking this summer. You can see by all the blog…

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Recover “Not Reset!” the System Password!?!?!?!?!?!

http://mohdaoud.blogspot.com/2010/07/recover-not-reset-system-password.html

Well, we used to run a script to reset the system password to “NONE” when forgetting it, but now you can recover the password…

Posted by Mohammad R. Daoud

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Recovering the System Menu Password in Dynamics GP

http://cvakumar.com/msdynamics/2010/05/recovering-the-system-menu-password-in-dynamics-gp/

Hi all How many times have consultants faced the situation where the system menu password…

Posted by veeyeskay

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GP Security Does not work

http://www.jivtesh.com/2010/08/gp-security-does-not-work.html

Recently there was a question in the newsgroups where a user had the problem that their roles were not working correctly. Users with a particular security role could see the windows they…

Posted by Jivtesh Singh

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