Microsoft has begun switching over many of our Microsoft Dynamics CRM customers to CRM 2013. Here’s some things you should know about the overall process: 1. Ensure you have another environment (test/dev) that matches your CRM production setup. This is a best practice by far. Not having a test environment, makes troubleshooting and changes in […]
When you install ADFS on a Windows Server 2012, the built-in ADFS role included is ADFS 2.1. When setting up Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 (UR13+ required), you will get an error message that tells you that IFD Authentication fails when trying to access the discovery service by external applications. Apparently the documentation for update UR13 says this has been […]
A co-worker of mine was testing a CRM 2011 On Premise implementation where he had recently updated to rollup 12/13. He started to notice that the ribbon bar was completely missing! My first response was to clean out your cache, and try it from another machine, as well as use the IE Private Browsing […]
Please find my latest presentation on ADFS from Microsoft Convergence 2013. This presentation includes topics like SSL Certificates, DNS Entries, Firewall, Common Deployments, ADFS Proxy Servers, IFD, ADFS Installation, Tips and Tricks, Troubleshooting and ADFS Errors. Please note the ADFS central link is not yet live on this site. This is the e-book I’m creating […]
Great Tech Next Article for Troubleshooting ADFS! http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/adfs2-troubleshooting-federation-service-startup-and-shutdown-problems%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
We ran into an authentication issue with Microsoft CRM 2011 using ADFS/IFD running Update Rollup 11v2. After being installed, the external endpoint would no longer display, providing the following error: The error log from the event viewer showed the following error (Could not find GUID for Server) immediately before even receiving […]
ADFS can be very unforgiving if you need to uninstall or reconfigure. The following steps should steer you clear of any issues that you might run into. (ACL List issues are covered on my blog as well). Step 1: Uninstall ADFS using the control panel, remove program NOTE:- ADFS will be shown as an installed update […]
The home realm URL issue is introduced when we attempt to add another active directory or claims provider for a domain outside our cloud domain to create single sign on. (SSO). Microsoft Internet Explorer has the ability to support this and we have no issues connecting via the browser. However, Microsoft Outlook as well as […]
While working on setting up an ADFS server farm, I was wondering how I can quickly tell if the ADFS server I was the primary computer. A quick review of an the ADFS Powershell Snapin provide a commmand to retrieve the ADFS role: get-adfssyncproperties Of course, if you open the […]
Several customers have reported the CRM 4.0 or 2007 endpoint is showing a 404 error is no longer working after applying update Rollup 10/11. A SQL script is required to fix the issue. Please note that since this is a direct-sql update to the MSCRM_CONFIG database, please contact your partner or Microsoft for assistance in updating […]