If there is one bonus take away from the yesterday’s tip, it’s existing KB functionality will soon be deprecated so it is advisable to transition to new KB as soon as possible. So people started to ask, how to do that. tl;dr Long version Yes, some assembly is required. Good news, it’s not that difficult. […]
Some might say that this tip is trivial but I was surprised myself when a very seasoned and knowledgeable user asked me how to use constants in the workflow. They wanted to push an estimated close date for all open opportunities one month forward to account for the festive season that has just ended (for […]
Challenge Joel can be such a pain, he always keeps asking some questions no one seems to know the answer for. Like the other day: What are these sync cycle processing records that feed the server side sync performance dashboard? I don’t see them in the system job log. Is there any way to bulk […]
Update 18-Nov-2016: Bugs reported have been fixed and there are no compelling reasons (beyond the support of the existing codebase) to continue use of Microsoft.Xrm.Client. One thing you’d notice about Dynamics CRM 2016 SDK is that some of the assemblies has gone MIA. For example, Microsoft.Xrm.Client, a home to some useful developers extensions, including a […]
I’ve got new laptop – yay! Office 2016 installation would go to 88%, sit there for 20-30 minutes then crash with some streaming error. NOT yay. 3 complete re-installation later I decided to re-download the ISO image. Out of curiosity, compared new download to the old one. Everything looked fine, except the checksum. Meaning my […]
If you were playing with the uber-administrator’s way to create non-intractive users then you might have seen the following error: Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ‘conn’. Cannot convert the “Microsoft.Xrm.Tooling.Connector.CrmServiceClient” value of type “Microsoft.Xrm.Tooling.Connector.CrmServiceClient” to type “Microsoft.Xrm.Tooling.Connector.CrmServiceClient”. Ugh? Say again? Cannot convert “A” to “A”? The other possible error gives away a bit more: […]
I’m not sure how to condense 3 days of pain and desperation into a tip of the day but I shall try. tl;dr Do not use the same base domain for ADFS and CRM if you have other applications (e.g. a web site) requiring Single Sing-On (SSO) with CRM. Please explain If you ever set […]
I won’t name any names in this post. You know who you are. Actually a super-duper developer #1: One of the follow up questions I got from an attendee at Extreme CRM was around the complexity of setting up a non-interactive service account today. I have to agree with them it seems overly tedious if […]
If you ever dealt with Dynamics CRM authentication at “close range”, you know that CRM supports OAuth. Presumably, with CRM 2016 and ADFS 3.0 (Windows Server 2012 R2), we should be able to use OAuth for CRM On-premises, right? Especially now that ADFS supports JSON Web Tokens, so we should be able just enable JWT […]
One of the great features of Dynamics CRM is the ability to impersonate other users’ accounts. Just set CallerId property on CrmConnection object and go on with your business as usual. However, make sure that your code or the code that you call, do not rely on the current user identity obtained using WhoAmIRequest. As […]
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