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How record Sharing and Access Teams give a cross-department reviewer exactly one record without touching roles or Business Units, and how a Microsoft Entra ID group team automates Finance's Dataverse membership from a security group IT already maintains. Part 4 of the Contoso security series.
July 5, 2026 23 min read
How the Business Unit field on a Security Role differs from the access level on individual privileges, why the two are easy to conflate, and how hierarchical security and the Parent:Child BU access level extend a manager's visibility across organisational boundaries. Part 3 of the Contoso security series.
July 4, 2026 21 min read
How to move from individual user assignments to scalable, team-based security in Dataverse — covering Business Units, Owner Teams, Member's Privilege Inheritance, team-owned records, and the BU boundary between departments. Part 2 of the Contoso security series.
July 1, 2026 27 min read
A practical walkthrough of row-level and column-level security in Microsoft Dataverse — how Security Roles and Column Security Profiles work, how they interact, and how to verify each layer is doing what you expect. Part 1 of the Contoso security series.
June 27, 2026 11 min read
A complete, practical guide to Microsoft Dataverse auditing — how environment, table, and column-level settings cascade, what their default states are, what operations actually get logged, retention and cleanup, and a hands-on walkthrough that builds incrementally so you can see each layer take effect.
June 22, 2026 22 min read