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9x Microsoft Business Solutions 365 MVP, I'm the CTIO for congruentX and a community Technology Evangelist Delivering Edge Experiences Using Microsoft Dynamics 365, Azure & Power Platform (Power BI, PowerApps & Power Automate) & Office 365

Move over CRM and AX! Dynamics 365 is here!

Microsoft Dynamics CRM has been rebranded as Dynamics 365 as of November 1. We have been battling for years the Microsoft CRM and ERP products did not talk to each other out of the box, requiring integrations like Scribe, EOne or KingswaySoft. Other competitors provided seamless tools that often noted this as a weakness. Microsoft […]

Azure Medics Panel & First Webinar Date Announced!

We have several Azure MVPs & soon to be MVPS signed up to be your first panel for our upcoming Azure Medic Webinar on October 25th. Let’s introduce them here and make sure to follow them on twitter for additional content! I will be your host and moderator for these web events. More details and future webinar dates […]

Override CRM dashboard limit to avoid your solution failing

When trying to upload a solution with more than the maximum number of dashboard components. Message: “The Dashboard that you are trying to save has more components than the maximum number allowed. Remove some components and try again.”         To resolve this issue, you can increase the Dashboard limit using Power 1. […]

How to setup load balanced SSRS Servers for CRM 2016

While not very common, there are times when a customer or client requests two servers for the CRM SRS data connector/SSRS to be installed and have load balancing configured for the servers. The idea here is failover; when one server hosting SSRS crashes, all incoming requests are routed to the secondary server. There are a […]

ADFS setup error when using CRM 2016 and ADFS and Windows 2012 R2

An error occurred. Contact your administrator for more information” error when accessing CRM with ADFS/IFD set up. After completing ADFS/IFD setup where ADFS is installed on a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine, you receive the below error:  To resolve this issue you must enable Forms Authentication: 1.       Connect to the ADFS server 2.       Open the […]

Why You Should Have TCP Port 80 Open Outbound On Your ADFS Server?

Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) performs a lot of tasks when it comes to authenticating users into CRM securely. One of those tasks in particular is a certification revocation check to validate that the certificates being used are still valid. ADFS completes this process by reaching out to certification revocation lists (CRLs) over TCP port […]

CRM Organization Import Issue and SSRS MaxRequestLength

When importing an organization to CRM 2011 we came across an error during the import wizard process which was causing the import to fail: 14:54:33| Info| PublishReportsFromDatabase: Creating report in Reporting Services. ReportId: 9f973403-bc84-e111-88bc-0050569e0001, Name: INVOICE PAYMENTS 14:54:34| Error| Error while updating organization information: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. […]