Wes Weeks

Jun 11

Unable to add users to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 after database restore

Working with a client in our Multi-tenant CRM environment who was doing a database migration into CRM and as part of the process, a backup of their Organization_MSCRM database was taken just prior to starting the migration in case it needed to be restored and run a second time. In this case it did, so I restored the database and let the client know ......

Posted On Monday, June 20, 2011 8:04 AM Microsoft CRM

Jul 10

Unable to delete Sharepoint 2010 Web Application

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While trying to delete a sharepoint web application, I received the following error: An object of the type Microsoft.SharePoint.Admini... named "Unprovisioning SharePoint - 80" already exists under the parent Microsoft.SharePoint.Admini... named "". Rename your object or delete the existing ......

Posted On Monday, July 12, 2010 9:32 AM

Jun 10

Microsoft CRM Deployment Config Tool Command Failed

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Worked on a CRM which had a need to limit the users that could be chosen to a specific OU. This should be simple enough with the CRM deployment config tool following these instructions: http://support.microsoft.co... However it did NOT work. The error I got was: Command failed with the following message: The parameter does not start with '-'; ......

Posted On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 9:05 AM Microsoft CRM

Jun 10

Upgrading Sharepoint MOSS 2007 Farm to Sharepoint 2010 "waiting to get a lock to upgrade the farm"

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My first inplace upgrade of a MOSS 2007 farm to sharepoint went pretty smooth. I read the preupgrade documentation and was comfortable with the steps. Since it was a fairly new installation of Moss changes were minimal and I wasn't anticipating too many problems The one issue I got was after installing the software on all of the farm. I went to the ......

Posted On Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:04 AM

Sep 09

Silverlight Gives "Could not download the Silverlight application. Check web server settings" even with .xap mimetype registered

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Struggled to get a Silverlight Application to load in the browser. Checked and double checked that the .xap mime type was succesfully registered. It was working correctly on our other machines. The .xap file was in a folder called ClientBin. Tried connecting directly to the xap in the browser by navigating to it directly, and it was found, something ......

Posted On Monday, September 28, 2009 10:48 AM

Mar 09

ASP.Net Project Won't Build - No Errors

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You gotta love this work sometimes... Spent the last few hours trying to get an ASP.Net web/silverlight project to compile. Every project in the solution would build fine but the web project wouldn't . The frustrating part is the compile was showing 0 Errors so I didn't know where to start. In the past these kind of strange errors have been fixed by ......

Posted On Wednesday, March 4, 2009 3:03 PM

Feb 09

Using external assemblies with CRM 4.0 Plugins

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When developing for CRM, we like to keep our business login contained within its own class to be shared and used by other parts of the system. Most all of our CRM implementations have other applications accessing CRM in one way or another so this approach works well. This was fairly straight forward wtih the 3.0 callout model, you just had to put them ......

Posted On Monday, February 23, 2009 3:39 PM Microsoft CRM

Jan 09

"The remote server returned an error: NotFound"

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We are building an application in Silverlight 2 using WCF for data access. Everything has been going fairly well, but one of the developers on my team came across this error trying to insert some data: "The remote server returned an error: NotFound" Now the error seems to suggest that there is something wrong with the service. Binding isn't correct, ......

Posted On Wednesday, January 28, 2009 9:50 AM

Jan 09

Could not load file or assembly 'PresentationCore'

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Received an error Could not load file or assembly 'PresentationCore' when trying to deploy and run a WCF service project. It had been working fine for months without issue. Turns out that the PresentationCore.dll had somehow been copied to the bin directory. Removed this file and the site worked. Still trying to figure out how/when this occured in the ......

Posted On Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:13 AM

Jan 09

Microsoft JScript runtime error: RSClientController is undefined

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Running Windows Vista 64 bit, Sql Server 2008 on a remote server. Using ASP.Net and the Report Viewer control on an asp.net page for a local report. Was also using IIS to host the web site instead of using the web server built into Visual Studio 2008. Searched and tried everything I could find on the net trying to fix this freaking error. On a whim ......

Posted On Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:15 PM

Sep 08

Entity Typecode not found in Metadata Cache

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While performing an update to some code originally written for CRM 3.0 which I was upgrading to 4.0 and using the new 2007 version of the web services, I found myself getting an unusual error during one of the callouts. The code created a new custom entity from the data in an existing entity. This code was orginally written by another party and I"m ......

Posted On Sunday, September 7, 2008 7:12 AM Microsoft CRM

Aug 08

Microsoft Dynamics 4.0 Installer Gripe

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The CRM 4.0 installer has a nice new feature. The ability to get upgraded setup files prior to running the instalation. A nice step forward to hopefully address setup issues which are often present in the first release of the components. Now for my Grip... I've rarely been lucky enough to get it right the first time. Usually I have to run the installer, ......

Posted On Friday, August 29, 2008 10:41 AM Microsoft CRM

Aug 08

CRM 3.0 to 4.0 upgrade error

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While performing an upgrade from Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 to 4.0, the upgrade installer halted early on with the following error message: Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Server.... failed Turns out that at some point the IIS Admin service was shutdown and disabled. Not sure how this occured since I had been running CRM 3.0 just prior to the ......

Posted On Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:10 PM Microsoft CRM

Aug 08

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Causes WebDev.WebServer.exe crash

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After installing sp1 on Windows Vista, my previously created web sites would no longer start and I got the following error: WebDev.WebServer.exe has stopped working Unable to connect to the ASP.NET Development Server with the following exception: System.Net.Sockets.SocketEx... was unhandled Message="An attempt was made to access a socket in a way ......

Posted On Friday, August 22, 2008 7:33 AM

Apr 08

HeaderAuthenticationProvider doesn't exist

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Another issue that may be faced when deploying custom .Net applications in the CRM root directory is the following error: 'Microsoft.Crm.WebServices.... Microsoft.Crm.WebServices, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad36... doesn't exist. You can resolve this one of two ......

Posted On Friday, April 25, 2008 5:08 PM Microsoft CRM