I had a customer who wanted to create a DEV organisation to practise tinkering with CRM on. The easiest way to do this is to take a copy of the live organisation and import it. I have done something similar when upgrading a CRM 4 organisation to CRM 2011 so I was confident I knew… [Read more…]
May 2, 2012
I was installing CRM today and I got the error below I had got over a couple of tricky hurdles. Firstly the server I was installing on already had SQL Server on so I had to manually set up Reporting Services, which anything to do with reporting services I always find difficult. I had then… [Read more…]
February 10, 2012
When you are going to install the connector you will need quite a few accounts created and you will need to talk to the customer and get them to create these accounts and give you the details before you can install and run the connector. Below is a list of the accounts you will need,… [Read more…]
February 3, 2012
I did something very stupid yesterday but luckily I knew what the problem was almost as soon as I had done it. I was looking to add a user to an organisation so I could login to CRM as a different user with a different security to see what they can do. I added… [Read more…]
February 3, 2012
If you have installed CRM 2011 then you will often get this error. I thinks it due to some new performance checking functionality put into CRM 2011. This problem is complaining that the user (service account) you have specified to run the CRM the CRMApp pools and the CRM services isn’t in the Performance Monitor… [Read more…]
November 22, 2011
I saw this amazing post by the blog CRM in the field. It has detailed instructions on how to install CRM 2011 without an internet connection. For those of you who have had the pleasure of installing CRM 2011 you will know you can be downloading lots of little extras which CRM 2011 needs and… [Read more…]
October 31, 2011
A customer asked me to investigate what is involved in setting up IFD (Internet Facing Deployment) for CRM 2011 so I have looked on the internet for the best articles, videos and documents on the subject. There are five main parts into configuring IFD Installing AD FS 2.0 Configuring the AD FS 2.0 federation server… [Read more…]
September 30, 2011
Recently Metaphorix has upgraded it’s CRM version from CRM 4 to CRM 2011, I should I upgraded the versions. I found that some people who had been using older versions of outlook would find they had no Ribbon after the outlook CRM upgrade. The reason for this was a registry setting which isn’t deleted. To… [Read more…]
September 22, 2011
if you read my previous blog post you will have seen that I finished the story by saying it had fixed everything. Well real life installing, uninstalling and configuring Microsoft CRM 2011 is rarely that straight forward. I ended up with another error I had never seen and left me scratching my head I have… [Read more…]
September 22, 2011
I had a heart stopping moment today when I tried to log into CRM 2011 I gave me a weird error message below Business Management Error: The user ID associated with the current user is not valid This was a completely new error to me. I started doing some digging and found the CRM async… [Read more…]
I'm a Dynamics CRM Developer - Consultant based in Birmingham, UK.
Certifications
CRM 4.0 Applications
CRM 4.0 Customization and Configuration
CRM 4.0 Installation and Deployment
CRM 4.0 Extending Microsoft Dynamics
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