Year: 2013

Dynamics 365, Windows

Using Multiple User Principal Name Suffixes

When configuring ADFS in your own local the default login of any user authenticating into the environment would be user@domain.local or something of that sort. At many times, especially when working with multiple applications, we would like the user to authenticate using different login credentials such as user@mynewdomain.com. In order to implement this, we can add suffixes that gives us the ability to user a friendly logon name that is not the same as the domain or parent’s domain name.

 
Dynamics 365, Windows

Setting the Security Token Expiration for IFD Claims-based Authentication

When configuring Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 to your Claims based Authentication a Authentication Required dialog box appears every 20 minutes.
By default the security token lifetime for claims–based authentication deployment using ADFS 2.0 (or above) is 60 minutes, however the token expiration dialog box will appear 20 minutes before the actual expiration.

 
Dynamics 365

CRM 2011 Errors with State Code or Status Code is invalid when deleting a managed solution

After importing a managed solution and making changes to the environment by removing some of the out-of-the-box views for the Contact or Account entity, we encounter an error if we ever try to delete the managed solution. The error is “State code or status code is invalid” or 1 is not a valid status code for state code…”

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Development, Dynamics 365

Duplication Detection using CRM SDK

Although CRM provides a duplicate detection process that can be configured using the User Interface, many time when developing application for CRM, such as Import Manager or Synchronization application, you require to create your own duplicate detection rules, execute the duplicate detection process and retrieve the results of the duplicates from within your application.

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Development, Dynamics 365

Bulk Data API ExecuteMultipleRequest in UR12

The ExecuteMultipleRequest message was added to the December 2012 Service Update (UR12) in CRM Online and CRM On-Premise, which accepts a collection of message requests, executes them in the order of the input collection and can return a collection of responses that contain the response for each message that occurred or if an error occurred. The CRM SDK version 5.0.13 is required to use the ExecuteMultipleRequest.

 
Development, Dynamics 365

Choosing CRM Connection Option

Many CRM application that are written for Microsoft Dynamics CRM require to authenticate a user with any Microsoft Dynamics CRM deployment. This sample in this article demonstrates how to connect and authenticate a user with Microsoft Dynamics CRM On-Premise or Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online (using both Windows Live Id and Office 365 credentials).

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Dynamics 365, Messaging

CRM Exchange Sync 2.0 is Microsoft Platform Ready

We have just released our latest version of the CRM to Exchange Synchronization application.

The CRM to Exchange Sync app provides the ability to synchronize between CRM marketing lists and Exchange Distribution Groups.
The application retrieves all the members of a marketing list, either static or dynamic and add the new distribution group members in exchange.