Author: Tudor Coleman

CRM 2011 SecurityNegotiationException Error after Publishing a Plugin for an Entity or Using Scribe Publisher.

We recently experienced an issue in our CRM 2011 Partner Hosted environment. Our system is set up according to Microsofts documentation for CRM Service Providers with the CRM web application on a seperate server from the Sandbox service. When we used the Scribe Insight Console to publish a Plugin for the Account entity we recieved

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CRM 2011 IFD Claims Based Authentication with ADFS 2.0 Session Expires.

When using Claims Based Authentication user sessions expire of 60 minutes by default. The user is prompted 20 minutes before that time to reauthenticate. Doing so results in the lose of any work that has not been saved. To avoid this issue you need to extend the “TokenLifetime” of the security token. 1. Login to

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Management Reporter Reports Stuck in Queue

ISSUE After generating a report, the Report Queue Status window lists the Status as Queued rather than Processing and report never finishes. CAUSES There are five possible causes for this error as noted below along with the five corresponding fixes. Cause 1: If the Management Reporter Process Service is on the same machine as the

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CRM 2011 Outlook Client cannot authenticate?

When trying to configure the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Outlook Client you may receive the error: “Cannot connect to Microsoft Dynamics CRM server because we cannot authenticate your credentials. Check your connection or contact your administrator for more help.” The first thing to check is that the time on your local machine is the same

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Recover Deleted Active Directory Account

Have you ever deleted an Active Directory user in error? This recently happened to us. We were cleaning up our Microsoft Exchange environment as a preparation to migrating to Microsoft Online Services, part of the NjevityToGo offering. Somehow we managed to delete the account of our company’s president. Not good. An Active Directory user account

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