NotSupportedException : Security settings for this service require ‘Anonymous’ Authentication but it is not enabled for the IIS application that hosts this service while trying to access OrganizationService.svc in CRM 2011


Hi,

One of my colleagues was facing the above issue while trying to access the OrganizationService.svc in CRM 2011. The issue as indicated by the exception message was because of the Anonymous Authentication being disabled for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM web application. Enabling it resolved the issue.

Bye.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Compatibility List


Hi,

Found this article that lists the minimum version of products compatible with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and 2011.

Do check it out

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2669061

Bye.

 

 

Open Report in a new window from Action in SSRS


Hi,

While developing a SSRS report, initially we set the Action property of the text box with the following value that will open the CRM’s Account record

=Parameters!CRM_URL.Value & “?ID={“&Fields!accountid.Value.ToString()&”}&OTC=1″

It was working fine however when we were using the same report inside the Dashboard, the report was not showing up properly as it was inside the IFrame.

So we had to use window.open for the Action’s Expression to open the report properly in a new window from inside Dashboard’s iframe.

=“javascript:void(window.open(‘”+ Parameters!CRM_URL.Value + “?ID={“ + Fields!accountid.Value.ToString() +“}&OTC=1′ ,’_blank’))”

Hope it helps.

System.NotSupportedException: An attempt was made to load an assembly from a network location which would have caused the assembly to be sandboxed in previous versions of the .NET Framework while registering plugin in CRM 2011


Hi,

One of my colleagues was getting the above error while trying to register the plugin using plugin registration tool. This was because the plugin was copied from a network location and hence blocked. Right clicking the plugin assembly, selecting properties and then selecting unblock in the Security section of the General tab resolved the issue.


http://blogs.msdn.com/b/drew/archive/2009/12/24/xunit-and-td-net-fixing-the-attempt-was-made-to-load-an-assembly-from-a-network-location-problem.aspx

Hope it helps.


Hiding Tool Bar from the SSRS Report while using them in Dashboard (CRM 2011)


Hi,

We were showing a custom SSRS report inside an iframe in one of our CRM 2011 Dashboards. We wanted to hide the Tool Bar from the report.

To achieve that we need to pass the &rc:Toolbar=false parameter to our report’s URL, which we set for the IFrame.

http://localhost/ReportServer/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?%2fCIBPhaseIIAnD_MSCRM%2fBEA&rs:Command=Render&rc:Toolbar=false

This hides the tool bar.

Now in one of our other SSRS reports, we were doing filtering based on a report parameter. So we wanted to show only the Parameter toolbar to appear and hide the other toolbar that shows Export, Zoom, Print etc. option.

To do so we first figured out the CSS class being used for it,

this turned out to be ToolBarButtonsCell

Now what we did next was to create a simple CSS file with the following content to hide the tool bar

.ToolBarButtonsCell{display: none;}

And placed that file at the following location of the server

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS10.MSSQLSERVER\Reporting Services\ReportServer\Styles

Now next we had to use the rc:stylesheet parameter for our report’s URL and pass the name of the above CSS file just created ( for e.g. hideToolBar.css)

So our new URL was like this

http://localhost/ReportServer/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?%2fCIBPhaseIIAnD_MSCRM%2fBEA&rs:Command=Render&rc:stylesheet=hideToolBar

After applying the new style sheet parameter to the report’s URL

Check out the following link

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms152835.aspx (URL Access Parameter Reference)

Hope it helps.

Understanding Team Ownership and Reparent feature in CRM 2011


Hi,

Found these two wonderful articles that explains Team Ownership and Reparent feature in depth

Do check them out !

http://andrewbschultz.com/2011/06/17/the-architecture-of-team-security-in-crm-2011/

http://andrewbschultz.com/2011/10/10/isolated-dynamics-crm-security-feature-reparent/

Bye.