Dyanmics CRM - Secure and Unsecure Configurations in Plugin

Dynamics CRM

Plugins

Dynamics CRM provides two different configuration fields for plugins, the unsecure configuration and the secure configuration. The biggest difference that you’ll seen mentioned between these two settings is that the secure configuration is only viewable by CRM Administrators while the unsecure configuration is viewable by any CRM user. However, there’s another important difference: the unsecure config will automatically move between environments with your CRM solutions.

Summary

Use the secure config when a setting is sensitive and shouldn’t be readable by any CRM user OR if you don’t want that setting to move between environments when importing/exporting solutions.

	Unsecure Config	Secure Config
Readable by any CRM User	Yes	No
Moves Between Environments with Solutions	Yes	No

eg /: Constants that you’d want to move with a solution like “MaxRetries” or “NumberOfDaysToFollowUp”     is Unsecure Config