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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a powerful tool. It has many unique features that empower organisations to bridge common business challenges and technology pitfalls that would usually hinder the adoption of a CRM solution. This book sets out to enable you to harness the power of Dynamics 365 and cater to your unique circumstances. We start this book with a no-code configuration chapter and explain the schema, fields, and forms modeling techniques. We then move on to server-side and client-side custom code extensions. Next, you will see how best to integrate Dynamics 365 in a DevOps pipeline to package and deploy your extensions to the various SDLC environments. This book also covers modern libraries and integration patterns that can be used with Dynamics 365 (Angular, 3 tiers, and many others). Finally, we end by highlighting some of the powerful extensions available. Throughout we explain a range of design patterns and techniques that can be used to enhance your code quality; the aim is that you will learn to write enterprise-scale quality code.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Encrypting data at rest to meet the FIPS 140-2 standard


Dynamics 365 has the capability of encrypting data at rest (with a customer-controlled key) for some attributes in order to comply with the FIPS 140-2 standard. Dynamics 365 online has data encryption enabled by default.

Note

It is recommended that you change the default encryption key when you first create your online instance.

Note

Dynamics 365 online has all its data encrypted at rest using SQL TDE as stated in https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134930.aspx#BKMK_Securing:All instances of Dynamics 365 (online) use Microsoft SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) to perform real-time encryption of data when written to disk, also known as encryption at rest.

In this recipe, we will demonstrate how to enable encryption in an on-premise Dynamics 365 implementation.

Note

Note that once encryption is switched on, it cannot be disabled.

 

Getting ready

The user enabling the encryption must be a System Administrator and must be part...