Mark Rhodes

A blog by Mark Rhodes for Sharepoint and CRM and occasionally other stuff too!

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The user does not exist or is not unique
Many times in the last couple of years I have come across the message " The user does not exist or is not unique." It is usually on its own, with no other error messages or clues to deciphering its cryptic text. Generally I have had only limited...
Installing CRM 4.0 on Microsoft SQL Server 2008
For anyone who has tried to install CRM 4.0 on a SQL Server 2008 installation you will probably know there are a few checks in the CRM installer that make this installation quite painful. It took me a few hours of fiddling and going through the install...
ApplicationHost.config error with IIS7, Dot Net 1.1 and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2
We came across a very odd issue today where the following error message would be displayed within IIS. The error message itself is not terribly helpful as usual, and there are no other error messages records in any event logs or log files. This was happening...
Error while publishing CRM 4.0 Workflow
I have seen this error three times now, the first time I made a recommendation to contact Microsoft Premier Support, the second time I worked it out, and this third time I decided it was worth blogging about. The error is very simply when you attempt...
Project Server 2007, Analysis Services 2008 and Building a Cube
A long while ago I put together an article after having a hell of a time getting Project 2007 and SQL Analysis Services 2005 to play nicely together to build a cube, My original post can be found here . The original article got quite a few hits, so I...
Troubleshooting CRM 4.0 System Jobs
I stumbled across something I'd never noticed before in CRM 4.0 today, I suppose in retrospect it is pretty obvious, but I thought I would mention it anyway. It is pretty simply the ability to create a custom view that has error messages for your...
SCVMM 2008 R2 Beta Released!
Wow that was quick! Not even a week ago and I was talking here, and at a presentation I gave to the Brisbane Infrastructure Group about how the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Beta would be available within 30 days. The SCVMM team has definitely...
SCVMM 2008 R2 Beta registration open
Beta registration for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 was released just today! https://connect.microsoft.com/SelfNomination.aspx?ProgramID=3021&pageType=1&SiteID=799 The registration page also lists some of the features of SCVMM...
Presenting this month at two user groups.
Just a quick update as I will be presenting this month at two usergroups. On Tuesday 10th March I will be presenting on System Center virtual Machine Manager 2008 at Brisbane Infrastructure Group Session #2, Hosting and Self Provision of Virtual Machines...
Content Deployment Error - There is no web named "".
Content deployment seems to be one of those topics that a lot of people tend to avoid, this is most likely because it has a whole host of nuances and subtleties that can make it seem buggy or unusable. In the spirit of documenting the little quirks of...
Error adding users to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.
Today I came across an issue with CRM 4.0 where one of our dedicated installations with its own Active Directory could not add users into CRM.Naturally, the error displayed inside CRM was a generic error message with no specific information of any helpful...
Error when adding a new entity to CRM 4.0
Just came across an error where a client could not create any new entities in a CRM 4 installation, their installation has been heavily customized, so my first suspicion was that this might have been part of the problem. The error being displayed was...
Having trouble joining Windows 7 to a domain?
If you are having trouble joining Windows 7 to a domain, and receive a odd error message with "Parameter is incorrect" then you are not alone. This issue seems to occur if you have more than 16 characters in the first portion of the domain you...
No Virtual Machines in SCVMM 2008 Self Service Portal - What the?
After installing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM 2008) into our production environment we decided to try fully utilize the feature of the product to offer our clients a web based portal to login and manage their virtual machines. This...
Happy New Year, I have Writer's Block
I don't really go in for New Year's Resolutions, but I had promised myself to blog more often in 2009. It looks like I've already gotten to a bad start this year as it is already 11 days in and this is only my second post. I really couldn't...
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