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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 logs carefully to fix the two issues that occurred...

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 to publish a workflow you receive a rather unhelpful...

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 system jobs. Go to Settings Go to System Jobs Click...

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 nature. The error from the Trace Logs was as...

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 a rather unhelpful "Invalid Argument" which...