I was recently looking at different ways of analyzing the security in the AOT. I found an Addin that is in Visual Studio. Click on the “View related objects and licenses for all roles”. It takes about 5 minutes to put all the data together and export an Excel file. You get two worksheets. License information – Shows the different security objects; Roles, Duties and Privileges. Showing the license type. View related objects – This is a detailed exploded view of the Roles, duties, privileges, resource (I.e. menu item) Based on the second tab I was able to create a pivot table. This allows me to…

With prior versions of SSIS, the you couldn’t save online authentication with OData connections. If you wanted to use it, you had to wrap the messages using c# code. Now with the latest SQL 2016 update there was a nice feature that sneaked under the radar. The OData Connection Manager now supports five modes of authentication. Windows Authentication Basic Authentication (with username and password) Microsoft Dynamics AX Online (with username and password) Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online (with username and password) Microsoft Online Services (with username and password) Read more here on msdn https…