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Microsoft.Crm.CrmException: GetAssemblyMetadata: expected mdtAssemblyRef or mdtAssembly while registering plugin assembly in Dynamics 365

While registering a plugin assembly through plugin registration tool we got the below error

The reason being we were using MSBuild.ILMerge.Task Nuget package and there were few assemblies being referenced in the plugin project that had copy local set as true.

https://nishantrana.me/2017/05/17/using-ilmerge-for-plugin-in-crm/

So eventually the single plugin assembly that was getting build had these assemblies also being merged in it, which led to the above error.

Setting Copy Local as False for those assemblies fixed the issue.

Hope it helps.

Empty or Disable cache while working with Web resources in Dynamics 365 (Chrome)

Most of the time while developing Web Resource we need to frequently update and publish it. We need to make sure that it is not cached and our changes are reflected instantly on publish.

For Chrome,

Open the Developer Tools (F12)

Press and hold the reload button and select “Empty Cache and Hard Reload” to have changes reflected.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14969315/whats-the-difference-between-normal-reload-hard-reload-and-empty-cache-a/14969509#14969509

The other option à Developer tools – Settings – Preferences

Hope it helps..

Hide “Sign in with an external account” from Dynamics 365 Portal

To hide the Sign in with an external account section from the Sign In and Register page of the portal.

Set the following site settings value to false à

Followed by Restart of the portal.

To add any additional JavaScript or HTML, for e.g. we wanted to disable the Email text box on the Register page,

Go to Portals à Content Snippets and create a new code snippet record

The output:-

code

The helpful post –

http://benitezhere.blogspot.ae/2018/01/hiding-sign-in-with-external-account.html

http://arpitmscrmhunt.blogspot.ae/2017/12/customise-registration-page-in-crm.html

Hope it helps..

Insufficient Security – You do not have the security priviges necessary to perform this task error while using Merge in Dynamics 365

Hi,

Recently one of our users got the below error while trying to merge Lead record.

The user was having the Merge rights. However, the user was missing Share rights on the Lead entity. He already had create, write, delete, append and append to rights.

More details here

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg334602.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

Giving Share rights fixed the issue.

Hope it helps..

Server Is Busy. The record was saved. However, the data could not be displayed because the server is busy error in Dynamics 365.

Recently one of our users got the below error

The error message is bit incorrect here. The error was because the user had User Level Read Access to the record or (Entity to be specific) and on saving the record, we had one of our real-time workflow being triggered which was assigning this record to another user. And on assignment, the record being getting assigned to another user, the user who had created\saved the record was losing the access to it.

Hope it helps..