Author: Tudor Coleman

    • Tudor Coleman
    • Comments Off on CRM 2011 Prompts for Credentials then gives 401 error.
    CRM 2011 Prompts for Credentials then gives 401 error.

    The following is from http://www.interactivewebs.com/blog/index.php/server-tips/ad-fs-certificate-rollover-crm-2011/ The Fix Basically the certificate automatically rolls over to a new one and ADFS won’t authenticate any more. Here are the steps that seem to fix this issue: Open windows Powershell as administrator (right click runas) Run the following commands: add-pssnapin Microsoft.adfs.powershell set-adfsproperties -autocertificaterollover $true update-adfscertificate -urgent Run the CRM

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    CRM 4.0 Report To PDF Converter Workflow hangs – emails not sending attachments

    While making changes to a custom report for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 we found the changes weren’t being applied to reports used by the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Report To PDF Converter. After investigation we discovered that the Report to PDF Converter was looking in the Report Server virtual directory /crmorg_MSCRM/.  The reports for CRM

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    Solver BI360 One Stop Reporting Excel Add-In Does not Load

    There is an issue with the BI360 OneStop Reporting Excel Add-in by Solver  not creating the correct registry entries during installation. The installer finishes without error but the BI360 OneStop Reporting Excel Add-in does not load when you open Excel. As the BI360 OneStop Reporting Excel Add-In does not load, the OneStop Reporting Tab does

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    Giving access to Report Builder 3.0 in GP 2010

    Permissions for Report Builder in GP 2010 1. Go to SSRS Report site ex: http://reportservername/reports¬_instance 2. Go to Site Settings in the upper right 3. Choose Security on the left nav bar 4. Add the user or group as DomainNameUserorGroupname 5. Select the “User Role” 6. Go to SQL Server Management Studio 7. Add user

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    Hypervisor Virtual Machine Vanished from host.

    A Virtual Machine on one of our Hyper-Visor hosts vanished. It was no longer listed. When I opened the Fail-Over cluster management console to see if it had failed over to another node it was marked as a failed service. I checked the for the VM Configuration Files and the Virtual Hard Drives on the

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    Clearing the Management Reporter Queue

    I’ve seen a lot of posts about reports stuck in the Management Reporter Queue including the following – Restart MR Service – Make sure MR service account has access in SQL – Apply latest service pack None of these worked for one of my clients. They are running Management Reporter 2010 SP3. To clear the

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    • Tudor Coleman
    • Comments Off on The Routing and Remote Access service terminated with service-specific error A device attached to the system is not functioning.
    The Routing and Remote Access service terminated with service-specific error A device attached to the system is not functioning.

    In trying to re-configure Routing and Remote Access on I was getting the following error: “The Routing and Remote Access service terminated with service-specific error A device attached to the system is not functioning.” Found a solution on the www.petri.co.il forums: Delete the following registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemcurrentcontrolsetservicesremoteaccessroutermanagersIPV6

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    • Tudor Coleman
    • Comments Off on Unabale to open records in CRM Outlook client due to pop-up blocker.
    Unabale to open records in CRM Outlook client due to pop-up blocker.

    We have seen CRM Outlook Client users receive the following message: A Microsoft Dynamics CRM window was unable to open, and may have been blocked by a pop-up blocker. Please add the Microsoft Dynamics CRM server to the list of sites your pop-up blocker allows to open new windows: servername CRM Pop-up Blocker Error: CRM

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