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Posted on by Maddin

Hello guys,

do you know where NAV stores the permissions (authorisation instructions) when they are assigned via Active Directory?

Surely they have to be found in some table?

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Inge M. Bruvik 1,111 Moderator on at

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Are you talking about the application permission is Dynamics NAV or exactly what permissions are you talking about?

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Maddin 30 on at

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In other words:

When does NAV pull the permissions from Active Directoy?

We work with user groups that are assigned to the individual user in AD. Where then is the information cached when the user performs an action in NAV?

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Inge M. Bruvik 1,111 Moderator on at

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Only at login.

Azure AD is not in play when the user is already logged in.

All permissions that apply with the application is stored in the application.

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YUN ZHU 95,638 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi, just adding to Inge's reply.

This has some updates in BC to use Azure Active Directory groups to manage environments that can be logged into.
But that doesn't work in NAV.

More details: https://yzhums.com/18304/

Hope this helps as well.

Thanks.

ZHU

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Ok, so they are only cached at the beginning.

And where can I see that they have been saved? I have to be able to look at that. In a table or where?

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Inge M. Bruvik 1,111 Moderator on at

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You can not look at Azure AD permission in a NAV table.

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Ok, but then how does NAV know that the user may or may not perform the following action. This must be stored somewhere?!

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Ok, but then how does NAV know that the user may or may not perform the following action. This must be stored somewhere?!

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Inge M. Bruvik 1,111 Moderator on at

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In the ordinary permission table where the permissions to any NAV object is stored. Nothing spesific there for Azure AD users.

Azure AD is used for authentication and not for permissions. Everything around permission is handled in NAV internally.

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Unfortunately, this still doesn't really help me....

I have a user group erp-access in the active directory. I have added various users to this group.

In NAV, these users no longer have any permissions, the card is empty, except for the "General" tab.

Now the users open NAV and they can perform various actions.

How does NAV know that they are now allowed to do this, although there is no assignment of permissions to users in NAV?

This information is only in AD?

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