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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration

You're reading from  Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847198761
Pages 208 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Toc

Table of Contents (15) Chapters close

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Setting up the Environment for Dynamics NAV 2. Installing Dynamics NAV 3. Integrating Dynamics NAV with the Microsoft Platform 4. Securing Dynamics NAV Applications 5. Backing up and Restoring a Dynamics NAV Database 6. Performance Tuning 7. Setting up Periodic Activities, Stylesheets, and Rapid Implementation Methodology 8. Updating Objects and Virtualization with Dynamics NAV 9. Business Intelligence

Users, logins, and passwords


The Dynamics NAV application provides two types of authentication methods to log in to the database, as explained next.

Creating database logins

These logins use database server (SQL or Classic) authentication to provide access to the application. We can create Database Logins as follows:

  1. 1. To create a database login in a Dynamics NAV Classic database server, go to Database Logins from Tools | Security | Database Logins.

  2. 2. Press F3 to create a new User ID and Name for the Database Logins.

  3. 3. If we are using the SQL Server as the database for Dynamics NAV installation, we have to make sure that the database logins' User ID that we are using here also exists as a user on the SQL Server.

  4. 4. If we are using the Dynamics NAV Classic database server, we will have an additional column to specify the Password for the User ID.

The first user that we create should be the SUPER user (the user with super access to everything in the application). SUPER is one of the roles in...

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