Import external users into the D365FO environment

This how-to will guide you on how to import external users into your D365 environment.

Prerequisites

• Machine with D365FO installed
• PowerShell 5.1
• d365fo.tools module installed
• d365fo.tools module loaded into a PowerShell session

Please visit the Install as an Administrator or the Install as a Non Administrator tutorials to learn how to install the tools.

Please visit the Import d365fo.tools module tutorial to see the different ways you can load the d365fo.module into a PowerShell session.

Import an external user into the database

We are going to import a single user account into the D365FO database. The sign-in name / e-mail has to be the primary sign-in name of the account. Type the following command:

Note: You will need to fill in the id and the name which the account should have in the database, because we can't look that up with this command.

Import-D365ExternalUser -Id test -Name test -Email [email protected]

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Closing comments

In this how to we showed you how to import an external user into the D365FO database.