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Business Rules in CRM 2013

Just writing down few key points regarding the Business Rules in CRM 2013.

Business Rules run on client side so any custom server side code or data import will bypass it.
Business Rule can be created for a specific form or all the forms of the entity.

Business Rules execute offline and also for tablet client.
If else conditions are not supported.
Rule are created for a single entity.
No support for or conditions.
If there is custom JavaScript and two business rules written on same condition, the custom JavaScript will run first, followed by the order in which the business rules have been activated.

Calling a Windows Authenticated WCF Service in a Plugin in CRM

Hi,

Suppose we need to call the service created here in our plugin

https://nishantrana.me/2014/09/05/configure-a-wcf-service-for-windows-authentication/

As plugin don’t have configuration file, we need to specify binding information in Code.

The sample code to call the WCF Service by passing Network Credentials


private static void CallWCFService()
{
BasicHttpBinding binding = new BasicHttpBinding();
binding.Security.Mode = BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportCredentialOnly;
binding.Security.Transport.ClientCredentialType = HttpClientCredentialType.Windows;

// Specify the endpointAddress
EndpointAddress endpointAddress = new EndpointAddress(new Uri("http://servername:port/Service1.svc"));

ServiceReference1.Service1Client client = new ServiceReference1.Service1Client(binding, endpointAddress);
if (client.ChannelFactory.Credentials != null)
client.ChannelFactory.Credentials.Windows.ClientCredential = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("username", "password", "domain");
if (client.ClientCredentials != null)
client.ClientCredentials.Windows.AllowedImpersonationLevel = System.Security.Principal.TokenImpersonationLevel.Delegation;
MessageBox.Show(client.GetData(1));
}

Hope it helps ..

Configure a WCF Service for Windows Authentication

Hi,

Sharing a simple example on how to enable Windows Authentication for a WCF Service using basicHttpBinding.

We will take an example of the OOB WCF Service that gets created when we create a new WCF Service Application.

Add the following configuration in web.config


<system.serviceModel>
<services>
<service name="WcfService2.Service1">
<endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="myBinding" contract="WcfService2.IService1"/>
</service>
</services>
<bindings>
<basicHttpBinding>
<binding name="myBinding" maxBufferSize="2147483647" maxBufferPoolSize="2147483647" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647">
<readerQuotas maxDepth="2147483647" maxStringContentLength="2147483647" maxArrayLength="2147483647" maxBytesPerRead="2147483647" maxNameTableCharCount="2147483647"/>
<security mode="TransportCredentialOnly">
<transport clientCredentialType="Windows"/>
</security>
</binding>
</basicHttpBinding>
</bindings>
<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior>
<!-- To avoid disclosing metadata information, set the values below to false before deployment -->
<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" httpsGetEnabled="true"/>
<!-- To receive exception details in faults for debugging purposes, set the value below to true. Set to false before deployment to avoid disclosing exception information -->
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false"/>
</behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>
<protocolMapping>
<add binding="basicHttpsBinding" scheme="https" />
</protocolMapping>
<serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
</system.serviceModel>

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And enable Windows Authentication in IIS

Hope it helps ..

Sample PowerShell script to create web application and a site collection in SharePoint 2013

Just sharing a sample script that we are using to create a web application and a site collection of type publishing in it.

# SharePoint cmdlets
Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell</pre>
# Set variables
$WebAppName = "MyAppPool"
$WebAppHostHeader = "servername"
$WebAppPort = "portnumber"
$url = "http://servername"
$WebAppAppPool = "MyAppPool"
# This User has to be a Sharepoint Manager Account
$WebAppAppPoolAccount = "domain\username"
$AuthenticationMethod = "NTLM"
$ap = New-SPAuthenticationProvider -UseWindowsIntegratedAuthentication -DisableKerberos

# Create a new Sharepoint WebApplication
New-SPWebApplication -Name $WebAppName -Port $WebAppPort -HostHeader $WebAppHostHeader -URL $url -ApplicationPool $WebAppAppPool -ApplicationPoolAccount (Get-SPManagedAccount $WebAppAppPoolAccount) -AuthenticationMethod $AuthenticationMethod -AuthenticationProvider $ap

# Set variables
$SiteCollectionName = "MySiteCollection"
$SiteCollectionURL = "http://servername:portnumber/"
$SiteCollectionTemplate = "BDR#0"
$SiteCollectionLanguage = 1033
$SiteCollectionOwner = "LSS\lssspadmin"

# Create a new Sharepoint Site Collection
New-SPSite -URL $SiteCollectionURL -OwnerAlias $SiteCollectionOwner -Language $SiteCollectionLanguage -Template $SiteCollectionTemplate -Name $SiteCollectionName

Hope it helps ..

Invalid CRMReference Target: The entity Customer doesn’t exist.

Hi,

Was writing a custom workflow activity on incident entity and in which we wanted the Customer Lookup Value. And based on type of Customer i.e. either contact or account there was some logic to be executed.

So declared an input parameter or type Customer