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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

Dynamics 365 Saturday comes to Tampa!

I’m so excited to announce that Dynamics 365 Saturday will be making a stop in my backyard in Tampa Florida! Join me and several other MVPS along with some other familiar Dynamics 365 resources. I will be presenting Power Apps in the Real World and Dynamcis 365 upgrade tracks with Beth Burrell. Come join us […]

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 […]

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. […]

CRM 2016 available, but not ready for your Production Server just yet!

Over the last few weeks my colleagues and fellow MVP’s have been working on a few CRM 2016 systems. Our general thought is that a lot of this code is from the CRM Online 2015 code base, and should really be production ready. However, the Microsoft CRM team has been hard at work delivering new […]

Understanding the ADFS Token Signing and Decrypting Certificates Rollover Process

Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) creates and manages the two certificates used for the tokens issued. These are the Token-signing and Token-decrypting certificates. By default, these certificates are valid for one year from their creation and around the one-year mark, they will renew themselves automatically via the Auto Certificate Rollover feature in ADFS. Once this […]

Join me at CRMUG Summit in Reno NV October 13-16

Join me at the CRMUG Summit In Reno NV. This is the premier Dynamics CRM Event of the year. Don’t miss out, not too late to register below.   More details.. http://www.crmugsummit.com/home Here’s my preliminary schedule. Please refer to the website! Monday, October 12 8:00pm-10:00pm @ Peppermill – Terrace Lounge Chapter Leader Bash Tuesday, October […]