Security and Authentication

Authentication to On-Premises Data Sources

A stored credential is used to connect from the gateway to your Dynamics GP SQL Server. Regardless of the user, the gateway uses the stored credential to connect.

*There might be authentication exceptions like DirectQuery and LiveConnect for Analysis Services in Power BI, but these exceptions are not covered by this Implementation Guide, as they are not applicable to Mekorma Mobile Workflows.

Sign-in Account

You sign in with either a work account or a school account. This account is your organization account.

If you signed up for an Office 365 offering and didn’t supply your actual work email address, your account name might look like nancy@contoso.onmicrosoft.com. A cloud service stores your account within a tenant in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). In most cases, the User Principal Name (UPN) of your Azure AD account matches your email address.

Azure Active Directory

Microsoft cloud services use Azure AD to authenticate users. Azure AD is the tenant that contains usernames and security groups. Typically, the email address that you use for sign-in is the same as the UPN of your account.