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Column Security in Dataverse Column Security in Dataverse allows administrators to control who can view, update, or create data at a column level . It is useful when you want to protect sensitive information such as salary, email, bank details, and personal ID fields. 🔍 Why Use Column Security? Protects sensitive data from unauthorized users. Gives granular control - separate read, update, and create permissions. Works with all security roles, teams, and business units. Ensures compliance by restricting visibility to authorized users only. ⚙️ How It Works You enable security on a specific column inside a table. Then create a Column Security Profile . Add users or teams to the profile. Grant permissions like Read, Update, Create. ⚠️ Limitations of Column Security Must be enabled per-column manually (not global). Increases ad...

1. Dataverse Table Ownership (Organization vs User/Team) Organization-Owned Table: Records do NOT have individual owners. Only None or Organization permission levels are allowed. Used for: Configuration tables, global reference data. User/Team-Owned Table: Records are owned by users OR teams. Allows scopes: None, User, Business Unit, Parent:Child BU, Organization . Used for: Operational data (Projects, Cases, Accounts). 2. Business Unit vs Team (They Are Not Same) Business Unit: Defines security boundary and data visibility. Every user belongs to exactly one BU. Cannot own records. Team: A group inside a Business Unit. Can own records (Owner Team). You can add/remove members. Roles assigned to Teams apply only to Team members. 3. Default Business Unit Team (Auto-created Team...