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CRM 2011 Automated Deployments – Backup Databases

Gayan Perera, 17 March 2013

Another time consuming task of deploying software updates is backing up existing application files, configuration files, databases etc etc which adds to the overall deployment time. These tasks can be automated. In this blog post we’ll look at automating the backup of CRM 2011 SQL databases be
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CRM 2011 Technical Debt – A real example

Gayan Perera, 14 March 2013

A few days ago I was listening to a talk on DotNetRocks.com by Gary Short where he talks about “Technical Debt”. Timing couldn’t be better; couple of weeks ago we started a large Dynamics CRM 4 to CRM 2011 upgrade. The original project was done by another vendor and the debt
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Dynamics CRM 2011 and Yammer Integration Step by Step

Gayan Perera, 11 March 2013

Finally! The Yammer integration is here. If you’re a Microsoft Online customer you’ll be able to take full advantage of this integration. Here is a step by step guide to integrating Yammer with Dynamics CRM. It is very important to keep in mind that the initial hoop you have to jump thro
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CRM 2011 RU12/Polaris - Disable Inline Notes Control

Gayan Perera, 10 March 2013

Recently a fellow college wanted to disable the inline notes control. Requirement was to still be able to see all the notes but not add or edit existing notes inline. With RU12/Polaris the notes control changed, therefor existing solutions for disabling the control doesn’t work. We also need t
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3 Tips – Upgrade Your CRM 2011 AJAX Calls to Support Chrome, Firefox & Safari

Gayan Perera, 05 March 2013

Rollup 12/Polaris added support for Chrome, Firefox & Safari, therefore we need to ensure custom javascript works across all of the above browsers. One of the things we’ve seen with xRM implementations are AJAX calls using ActiveXObjects. ActiveXObject works fine in IE but fails with other
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CRM 2011 Polaris Asynchronous Javascript Loading

Gayan Perera, 03 March 2013

Some of you might have noticed “xyz is undefined” in your form scripts with the latest update. This is caused by the system failing to load javascript libraries in the specified order. Let’s say you had a function that displayed a bunch of accounts. Eg: function DoSomething_OnLoad(
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How Does the CRM 2011 5.0.14 SDK Solution Down-level Utility Work? – Part 1

Gayan Perera, 28 February 2013

CRM 2011 Rollup 12/Polaris introduced new components which integrated with the existing system. It also pulled in the activity feeds solution into the base CRM solution. With both of the above changes we’re no longer able to develop solutions in a Rollup 12 environment and install into an orga
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How to Add Autocomplete Functionality to CRM 2011 Fields

Gayan Perera, 20 February 2013

This is an unsupported customization. To implement the autocomplete functionality you’ll need the following: 1. jQuery (latest version) 2. jQuery Autocomplete 3. A custom javascript web resource – See code below 4. A custom css web resource – This will a
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CRM 2011 - A Sandbox Host is Not Available

Gayan Perera, 13 February 2013

Production environments have hardened security. If you’ve recently installed CRM on one of these environments you might come across this error: A Sandbox Host is not available Source: w3wp.exe (3940) Sandbox Host: XYZ Reason: System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException: Could no
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Office 365 Active Directory Synchronization Error

Gayan Perera, 22 January 2013

Recently, a customer with a federated active directory setup got an error from the MS Online Services Team saying that they did not register a synchronization for at least 24 hours. The synchronization has been working fine until now but then suddenly stopped. We noticed the following errors
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Script#, jQuery, Cross Browser and Dynamics CRM 2011 SOAP – Part 1

Gayan Perera, 17 January 2013

This is a two part series; we’ll show you how you can write cross browser compatible code using Script# and jQuery. We’ve shown you our Xrm.Page Script# library in our earlier posts, if you haven’t had a change to look at it yet take a look at the CodePlex project (http://sharpxrmp
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CRM 2011 IFD Crashed CRM 4 Upgraded Plugins

Gayan Perera, 17 October 2012

This is another issue we faced with an upgrade of CRM 4 to CRM 2011. The system had an old CRM 4 plugin that got automatically upgraded and it worked fine before IFD was configured but once IFD was configured it crashed with the following message: The underlying connection was closed: Could not esta
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VS 2010 and VS 2012 Side by Side ILMerge

Gayan Perera, 02 November 2012

I recently received a bug with an old plugin, this plugin project had post build steps which ILMerged multiple assemblies. When I build the project on a machine that didn’t have Visual Studio 2012 it compiled, ran the post build steps correctly, but when I run it on a machine that has both Vis
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CRM 2011 IFD - SSL-OffLoading and DefaultEndpointBinding Issue

Gayan Perera, 24 October 2012

Here is another little tip for your IFD configuration. Once IFD is configured you need to remove the normal HTTP binding and leave just the HTTPS binding in IIS, otherwise you’ll start seeing the following errors in your trace logs. ClaimsAuthenticationEndpointBuilder: SSL-OffLoading has not
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CRM 2011 Polaris – New Xrm.Page Method

Gayan Perera, 07 January 2013

CRM 2011 SDK 5.0.13 has just been released. It includes quite a few goodies. One of them is a new method to get the correct url of the server. Old method “getServerUrl” has been deprecated and has been replaced with “getClientUrl” To use this new method simply call: Xrm.Page.
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