I got this plugin error whilst trying to deploy my custom workflow
Error registering plugins and/or workflows. The resource string “ErrorSerializingRegFile” for the “RegisterPlugin” task cannot be found
I have had this error many times, so I thought I would go through the common plugin errors
Common plugin errors
Below is a list of the common plugin errors which can frustrate you for a while
Forgetting to sign the plugin
This is a common thing to forget. If you plugin won’t register you need to sign the plugin, you can see steps how to do this on my blog post
CRM 2013 – Step by Step Update Plugin Tutorial using the CRM 2013 Development Toolkit
Solution – sign the plugin
Haven’t checked out the crmregister file
This error occurs if the crmregister file is set to read only
Solution – make the crmregister file read only or check it out of source control
Isolation Mode = “Sandbox”
You can also get errors if you haven’t set the isolation mode to the correct value. Often this can be resolved by setting the isolation mode to none
CRM 2011 – plugins and isolation mode
Solution – change isolation mode = “none”
Error message “Assembly must be registered in isolation” when registering Plugins in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011
https://crmbusiness.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/crm-2011-assembly-must-be-registered-in-isolation/
Solution – Give the user Deployment Administrator role
Type Name incorrect
I added in my custom Workflow into my CRM Developer project. It wrote a line to the RegisterFile.crmregister but
TypeName=”Maintenance.CWA.MaintenancePublish”
TypeName=”Hosk.Dynamics.Crm.Project.MaintenancePublish”
The CRM Developer toolkit didn’t put in the name space in front of the type.
Solution – Change the typename to include the namespace
Developer Toolkit
The CRM Developer toolkit is great and I love it, most of the time. Sometimes I can get very frustrated with it, which you can read about here
What would be really good is if there was a way to regenerate the RegisterFile.crmregister from the plugins deployed in the CRM organisation.
I initially thought my problems were due to the CRM Developer toolkit getting itself into a pickle, but it turned out to be something more straight forward
Cannot register or unregister plugins!
The code I wrote was replacing a plugin with custom workflow. The reasonfor this is by default plugins must run within 2 minutes or they time out. The plugin was doing a lot of looping/recusive code, updating lots of related entities. This was causing an SQL timeout error.
To get round this I created my custom workflow, the next step was to unregister the plugin but when I tried I got an error.
Not have enough privilege to complete Create operation for an SDK entity
Isolation mode
Earlier in the week the project had decided to change the plugins from
IsolationMode=”Sandbox”
to
IsolationMode=”None”
When you change this isolated setting to none this change the security privileges you need to deploy plugins.
Like most CRM problems the first place I search (and usually find answers) is the Hosk CRM blog
https://crmbusiness.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/crm-2011-assembly-must-be-registered-in-isolation/
The short answer is plugins with Isolation mode set to Sandbox can be registered by a user with the role of System Administrator.
Plugins with Isolation mode = “none” have to be a deployment administrator
Why X 5
Good CRM Developers are always asking why, 5 times according to wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
Plugin Security Restrictions
There is a Microsoft a document/web page called
Register and Deploy Plug-Ins
No one ever reads this because it’s very long and detailed and you don’t need to understand all of it to create and register plugins (unless you have a problem of course).
Reading pages such as this one does help to increase your knowledge and understanding of how CRM works, which is why I am looking at it today. I know there is a problem because I can’t undeploy my plugin or deploy my custom workflow but
WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY?
Below is the section called Security Restrictions
Security Restrictions
There is a security restriction that enables only privileged users to register plug-ins. For plug-ins that are not registered in isolation, the system user account under which the plug-in is being registered must exist in the Deployment Administrators group of Deployment Manager. Only the System Administrator user account or any user account included in the Deployment Administrators group can run Deployment Manager.
| Important |
| For non-isolated plug-ins, failure to include the registering user account in the Deployment Administrators group results in an exception being thrown during plug-in registration. The exception description states “Not have enough privilege to complete Create operation for an SDK entity.” |
The system user account under which the plug-in is being registered must have the following organization-wide security privileges:
- prvCreatePluginAssembly
- prvCreatePluginType
- prvCreateSdkMessageProcessingStep
- prvCreateSdkMessageProcessingStepImage
- prvCreateSdkMessageProcessingStepSecureConfig
Deployment Administrator
Deployment Administrator is a special role which can only be given out by a deployment administrator. When you install CRM the account used to install CRM will be given the only deployment administrator role. This user can open up the Deployment Manager application which is found on the CRM server. Here the you can add more Deployment Administrators
If you want to learn more about Deployment Administrator role read the blog below
CRM 2011/2013 – Understanding and adding the deployment administrator role
Why am I talking about deployment administrators
In the security section above, there is this important paragraph.
For non-isolated plug-ins, failure to include the registering user account in the Deployment Administrators group results in an exception being thrown during plug-in registration. The exception description states “Not have enough privilege to complete Create operation for an SDK entity.”
Users are often set up as deployment administrators at the start of the project. The reason this annoying popped up for me was because we had changed the isolation setting from Sandbox to none.
Before when I was publishing plugins with Isolation mode = “sandbox”, this paragraph was relevant.
For plug-ins registered in the sandbox (isolation mode), the system user account under which the plug-in is being registered must have the System Administrator role. Membership in the Deployment Administrators group is not required.
I added the deployment administrator role to my user and I was back publishing and unpublishing plugin.
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