Privilege and Role Entities

[Applies to: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011]

A privilege is a permission to perform an action on a specific entity type in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The platform checks for the privilege and fails if the user does not hold the privilege. A privilege has an associated access level that determines the depth within the organization to which the privilege applies.

A role, or security role, is a grouping of security privileges. Users are assigned roles that authorize their access to Microsoft Dynamics CRM. A user must be assigned to at least one role. It is not sufficient to be a member of a team that has an assigned role.

For more information about access levels and roles, see How Role-Based Security Can Be Used to Control Access to Entities in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

The following illustration shows the entity relationships for this area. For more information, see Key to Entity Diagrams.

Privilege and role entity relationship diagram

See Also

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011
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