Installing CRM 2011 on Windows Server 2012 requires to use the Microsoft Self healing Process – manual patch that you download from the Windows Catalog. I searched all over and had a hard time finding it. Thanks to my good friend Corey Hanson at Microsoft for providing a direct link to the patch. The patch […]
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 […]
Microsoft has officially released Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Update Rollup 12, formerly known as Polaris. https://community.dynamics.com/product/crm/crmnontechnical/b/crmconnection/archive/2013/01/29/announcing-the-availability-of-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011-update-rollup-12.aspx Download it here ! http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36229 And let’s not forget our best practices! http://msdynamicsworld.com/story/listen-voice-experience-decisions-will-help-or-hinder-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011-upgrade
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 […]
Interesting resolution here, as the Microsoft documentation states to enter the https://dev.crm.dynamics.com/ORGANIZATIONNAME. It turns out this is NOT the actual name of your organization but the GUID! Per the error message, we went into CRMOnline and checked out the developer resource as seen below: Notice the […]
Recently, we have had to move some customers from CRM 2011 Online to CRM 2011 On Premise. It turns out the upgrade was failing around the mapping users. It turns out that the CRM 2011 Online uses a field called Windowsliveid. This is basically used in place of the domain\login fields that are used on […]
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 […]