The use of SQL TDE – Transparent Data Encryption is a great way to secure your Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 or 4.0 systems, especially when they contain sensitive data like credit cards or social security numbers. This ensures that even if someone gets a copy of your database, it cannot be used or restored on […]
Reviewing a client’s ADFS configuration, I found an unusually error message in the ADFS service federation metadata saying “Keyset does not exist”. After searching for all the usually culprits, this turned out to be one of the most commonly forgotten issues – Giving access to the service account to manage the private keys for the certificate. […]
CRM 2011 ADFS comes with a unqiue feature: Auto-Rollover for SSL Certification expiration. You must load the new SSL certificate on the box prior to the Auto-Rollover. We are finding out this might be as automatic as once thought. If your ADFS console looks like the following and your CRM is not working the steps […]
A common error when upgrading or installing CRM 2011: This error can be resolved by modifying the existing SQL server installation. From Control panel, click add/remove programs, click on SQL Server installation, change/ add features. You will be prompted for the original install media so make sure you […]
We experienced a CRM 2011 Outlook Client that would not connect to office 365. We simply connected via OWA (Web Version of Office 365), and then the fat client connected and configured! It seems the account might have not fully been provisied and logging in via the web client allowed it. We will continue to […]
A tribridge consultant, Bob Mancuso, passed these details along which can be helpful when reviewing organizations in the CRM deployment manager CRM 2011 – Update Rollup Versions Update Rollup 8 – 5.0.9690.2243 Update Rollup 7 – 5.0.9690.2165 Update Rollup 6 – 5.0.9690.1992 Update Rollup 5 – 5.0.9688.1533 Update Rollup 4 – 5.0.9688.1450 Update Rollup 3 – […]
A colleague of mine, David Pritchett, passes along this time saving tip when you have problems importing solutions and receive the error message as below: The error message turns out to be related to the user not have rights to the directory shown below: Once the user has rights, the solution will import correctly. […]
Great article on modifying the ASP.NET compilation. We have updated on this on several systems reporting over slow performance and have seen some good performance improvements using this on a few CRM systems. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davidebb/archive/2009/04/15/a-new-flag-to-optimize-asp-net-compilation-behavior.aspx Inside the CRM 2011 web.config, you can add the statement to your web.config:
This was a common request that we could not handle in CRM 4. In CRM 2011, we have the ability to disable the smart matching capabilities under system settings.
We had a report that the CRM 2011 Outlook Client was returning more than 250 rows even though being limited by the CRM Administrator. It turns out that new pinning behavior in CRM 2011 Outlook client will override that settings. Let’s take a look.. In Outlook client, to the left of the view name, there […]