I recently attended a great Power BI session on Data Visualization by Miranda Li, The Data Visualization Lead by Microsoft. I was expecting to see some cool tools in Power BI that would further my knowledge. It turns out I was in a for a complete surprise in that, we actually focused on the planning […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Installation of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Reporting Extensions formally known as the SSRS Data Connector (Still in on the installation media in same folder) is necessary so that CRM and SQL servers can communicate over the kerboros double hop issue when using to seperate servers. The error below was received because a SQL Server was replaced the SSRS Data Connector […]
Troubleshooting a customer’s CRM 2011 setup failure, we almost were thinking it was machine account issue, so we rejoined the machine to domain last night. Sorry to say, that didn’t help.. So a little more digging… It turns out that whomever installed SQL on that box (might be a VM image copy), failed to enter the service accounts when […]
A best practice is to install CRM using service accounts. Most administrators will do the same for SQL Server. Many of the warnings about SPN’s during the install are igorned users. Many DBA’s will change the SQL service accounts after installation which will also cause issues. CRM 2011 offers a new service called the Sandbox […]