Nishant Rana

Dynamics CRM 2013 Links

The long awaited Dynamics CRM 2013 product is available Online and for OnPremise installations. Microsoft did a great job with the product and I’m sure you’ll appreciate the many improvements and additions to the product. Here are the links:

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server 2013 (Online)

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server 2013 (OnPremise)

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 for Microsoft Office Outlook (Outlook Client)

Check out my Microsoft Curah article for the latest download updates.

In addition Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Update Rollup 15 is also available. As with any update rollup, read through the list of fixed items and determine if any address issues you are experiencing. Install the Update Rollup in a development environment first, test it for a couple of weeks and then roll it into production.

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An object of the type Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWindowsServiceCredentialDeploymentJobDefinition named “windows-service-credentials-FIMSynchronizationService” already exists under the parent Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ProfileSynchronizationService named “FIMSynchronizationService”. Rename your object or delete the existing object in SharePoint 2013

Hi,

Got the below error while trying to change the Service Account for User Profile Service Application.

As the error suggests we need to delete the existing job definition to resolve this issue.

Open Central Administration à Monitoring

Select the service

Delete it

Now if we try changing the Service Account associated to the User Profile Synchronization Service it will work properly.

Hope it helps.

Change the font size of td in jqGrid

I was using the jqGrid (4.5.2) in one of my html web resources for CRM 2011. To adjust the font size of the td of the jqGrid table, we can set the value for the following style element in ui.jqgrid.css style sheet

Or we can using the following style in the html page where we are using the jqGrid

.ui-widget-content td {font-size:1.1em;}

Hope it helps.

Connecting to SharePoint Online in Office 365 through a windows or console application

Hi,

Was looking for a way to connect to SharePoint online using CSOM through a windows application. Found this wonderful article that explains in details about the same.

http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/How-to-do-active-authentication-to-Office-365-and-SharePoint-Online.aspx

It also provides us with a helper class name MsOnlineClaimsHelper that does all the heavy lifting for us.

MsOnlineClaimsHelper claimsHelper = new MsOnlineClaimsHelper(“https://xyz.com/sites/dev”, “x@y.onmicrosoft.com”,“pwd”);

Hope it helps.

Fixed – “A type named ’SP.Data.ListItem’ could not be resolved by the model. When a model is available, each type name must resolve to a valid type” error in SharePoint 2013.

Hi,

Was getting the above error while creating a listitem for a Tasks List using Rest interface in a SharePoint app.

Here we need to pass SP.Data.<ListName>ListItem i.e. ListEntityTypeFullName of the List.

We can get it using the following

<a href="https:///_api/web/lists/getbytitle(”)?$select=ListItemEntityTypeFullName”>https://<site>/_api/web/lists/getbytitle(‘<List Name>’)?$select=ListItemEntityTypeFullName

More details

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj164022%28office.15%29.aspx#ListItems

Hope it helps.

Mark Complete an Activity on create through Plugin in CRM 2011.

Hi,

We had a requirement to immediately close the Appointment record as completed after creating it. The initial thought was to call Set State Request on the Post Create plugin. That approach gave error. Then we tried passing statecode and statuscode value as input parameter in Pre Plugin. That approach also didn’t work.

Finally we registered a pre update plugin on appointment entity and set the values for statecode and statuscode attributes. This worked for us.

The learning is that on create of Appointment record, update message is also called.