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9x Microsoft Business Solutions 365 MVP, I'm the CTIO for congruentX and a community Technology Evangelist Delivering Edge Experiences Using Microsoft Dynamics 365, Azure & Power Platform (Power BI, PowerApps & Power Automate) & Office 365

October 2018 Release Notes! Wow 200+ Pages!

Download the October ’18 Release Notes PDF (last updated September 26, 2018) The October ’18 wave of business application releases from Microsoft provides you with significant capabilities to transform your business. These new services and capabilities become available starting in October 2018. (These release notes describe functionality that may not have been released yet. Delivery […]

ADFS setup error when using CRM 2016 and ADFS and Windows 2012 R2

An error occurred. Contact your administrator for more information” error when accessing CRM with ADFS/IFD set up. After completing ADFS/IFD setup where ADFS is installed on a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine, you receive the below error:  To resolve this issue you must enable Forms Authentication: 1.       Connect to the ADFS server 2.       Open the […]

Why You Should Have TCP Port 80 Open Outbound On Your ADFS Server?

Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) performs a lot of tasks when it comes to authenticating users into CRM securely. One of those tasks in particular is a certification revocation check to validate that the certificates being used are still valid. ADFS completes this process by reaching out to certification revocation lists (CRLs) over TCP port […]

Understanding the ADFS Token Signing and Decrypting Certificates Rollover Process

Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) creates and manages the two certificates used for the tokens issued. These are the Token-signing and Token-decrypting certificates. By default, these certificates are valid for one year from their creation and around the one-year mark, they will renew themselves automatically via the Auto Certificate Rollover feature in ADFS. Once this […]

Join me at CRMUG Summit in Reno NV October 13-16

Join me at the CRMUG Summit In Reno NV. This is the premier Dynamics CRM Event of the year. Don’t miss out, not too late to register below.   More details.. http://www.crmugsummit.com/home Here’s my preliminary schedule. Please refer to the website! Monday, October 12 8:00pm-10:00pm @ Peppermill – Terrace Lounge Chapter Leader Bash Tuesday, October […]

Join me at CRMUG Summit 2014!

        It’s that time of year again, when all the CRM User base gets together for the biggest CRM user group event of the year. CRMUG Summit is a great place to learn, network and do all things CRM! Some details to the event can be found here. If you’re attending, see […]