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Hello, I'm new to field-level security in CRM, but based on my basic understanding, CRM only allows OTB field-level security on custom fields, as opposed to managed fields.  Why did MS choose this approach for field-level security in CRM?  It seems like this approach creates a lot of additional work/overhead?

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    CRMInnovation.com on at

    Andrew,

    Of all the investments made by the product team for CRM 2011, Field Level Security was one of the biggest investments they undertook. FLS is actually a very daunting challenge to implement. They wanted to make sure it would work in all environments and situations.

    I can't recall all the details from a conversation I had with a project manager at the time of the product release but there are all sorts of challenges when trying to apply FLS to OOB fields. I recall that one of them was related to entity to entity mappings of fields.

    I am not aware of any public plans to change this in the current roadmap. If you want to kick the can a little bit further down the road, make a suggestion at Connect.microsoft.com and the repost the link back here so forum visitors can vote on it.

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    AFTAB HUSSAIN Microsoft Employee on at

    Hello Andrew,

    Below are few links that can give you more information regarding Field level security in CRM 2011

    - www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx

    - social.technet.microsoft.com/.../15902.field-level-security-in-dynamics-crm-2011.aspx

    - msdn.microsoft.com/.../gg309608.aspx

    - community.dynamics.com/.../field-level-security-in-crm-2011.aspx

    Thank You !

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