System Administrator vs Security Administrator

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What are the difference between System Administrator and Security Administrator roles in AX? except limitations in viewing the modules and cannot use Cntrl + D for opening AOT window, what other limitations are there in security administrator? thanks

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Ludwig Reinhard Microsoft Employee on at

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Hello Ali,

Have you check the following site: technet.microsoft.com/.../hh527122.aspx ?

Ludwig

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Hello Ludwig, thanks but I need a comprehensive comparison between them.

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Sohaib Cheema 49,438 User Group Leader on at

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1) download security report

2) take a test user

3) assign SystemAdmin Role to TestUser : run security report. save report in pdf or excel

4) assign SecurityAdmin Role to TestUser: run security report again. save report in excel or pdf

5) do comparison or analysis or whatever

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open SDT and do analysis manually using SDT

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Sohaib Cheema 49,438 User Group Leader on at

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another point, no need think anything about SystemAdmin.

System admin has access to everything of ax application all modules all tables AOT, classes ect.

just think about other roles

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André Arnaud de Cal... 300,904 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Ali,

Just in a few words: A system administrator is like a domain administrator on Windows. It has access to all functionality and also the development environment.

The security administrator is a role to create and maintain users in AX. Also this person can assign role and I thought also change the contents of roles and privileges.

This person cannot assign the system administrator role to himself or another user. That is still done by a system administrator himself.

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