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February 2008 - Posts

  • Programmatically creating a new organization in CRM4

    For those nerds like me that are interested in developing your own Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 MPS Provider you might be interested in this;

    http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2008/01/18/multi-tenancy-in-crm-4.aspx

    It is a blog entry from the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team that gives you some code for programmatically creating a new CRM organization on a multi-tenant server using the CRM Web Services.

    In my spare time, <cough><cough>, I am planning on building an MPS provider for CRM 4.0. I will publish it to MSExperts when it is done.

    Posted Feb 20 2008, 12:30 AM by Cam with no comments
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  • CRM4 – Report cannot be displayed

    A tale of a silly mistake made during the fun of building a Hosted CRM4.0 install.

    Recently I installed a Hosted CRM 4.0 instance on one of our servers and after getting it all up and running I found that none of the Reports were working.

    I think the term is RTFM! Stupid me missed the step where it says to run the SetupSRSDataConnector.exe on the SQL Server. Well fancy that, all is working now. ;o)

    Hopefully none of you were silly enough to miss this step. If you did... you now know what you did wrong.

    Posted Feb 20 2008, 12:14 AM by Cam with no comments
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  • CRM4 – System Jobs stuck in waiting state

    Long time since I last posted. Sorry. Too many beers through the festive season and a lot of work releasing new Microsoft products left, right and centre.

    Recently I found a problem / bug with an unattended install of CRM 4 that I had done whereby the Asynchronous System Jobs were not running on the server and were stuck in a "waiting" state. I have since seen that on two other servers (one of them I didn't install) so I figured I should let you all know.

    After looking around I found a fix to the problem. The problem is in the "DeploymentProperties" table of the "MSCRM_CONFIG" database. I found that the "AsyncSdkRootDomain" value in "NVarCharColumn" was blank. This needs to be the same as what the "ADSdkRootDomain" and "ADRootDomainScheme" values are set to. In my case that was just the NetBIOS name of the server (e.g. CRMAPP01 – if you actually use Microsoft's naming convention).

    Good luck! CRM 4 looks a lot prettier than CRM 3.0. I love the new provisioning functionality.

    Posted Feb 19 2008, 11:55 PM by Cam with no comments
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