Fixed – (action:Skip) failed validation for reason code: LookupRecordNotAvailable in Configuration Migration (DataMigrationUtitliy.exe) in Dynamics 365 (CRM)


Recently while trying to migrate configuration records, we started getting warning in CRM Configuration Migration tool – “Completed importing x of x, x queued for second pass updates” for multiple entities.

Looking in the log we got the below error detail

“ImportEntity – Result: True – Entity: msdyusd_agentscriptaction – Adding msdyusd_agentscriptaction to the reprocess List as field owningbusinessunit with value aeb9a12b-dd3b-e711-80fb-5065f38b5691 – LookupEntity businessunit and Record Id dac37a7f-8e3c-e311-87f2-00155dd8d60b () – (action:Skip) failed validation for reason code: LookupRecordNotAvailable”

Finally, we figured out that the records that were failing were owned by the system user, whose roles we had recently removed and had set its access mode as Administrative.

Assigning appropriate security role and setting access mode to Read-Write for that particular user, ensured that all the records that were owned by that user were migrated successfully.

The other option to fix this would be to remove those columns and add only appropriate columns while defining the schema in Configuration Migration Tool

Hope it helps..

Added support for Images for Plugin in Developer Toolkit for Dynamics 365 (CRM)


The old version of Dynamics 365 Development toolkit was not supporting registration of images, unlike previous versions of Developer Toolkit.

https://nishantrana.me/2016/12/21/not-able-to-register-image-for-plugin-in-microsoft-dynamics-365-developer-toolkit-public-beta-1/

However, in the new version of Developer Toolkit the support has been added.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DynamicsCRMPG.MicrosoftDynamicsCRMDeveloperToolkit

In our CRM Explorer, once we have created a plugin, we can go Plug-In assemblies option in the navigation, select our plugin’s step and can add image.

This as expected updates the RegisterFile.crmregister file as well.

Hope it helps..

Sample code to retrieve more than 5000 records using FetchXML in CRM


Hi,

Sharing a sample code to retrieve more than 5000 records using the Fetch XML.

Version 1 :

private List<Entity> GetTotalRecordsfromFetch(string fetchXML, IOrganizationService orgService)
{
List<Entity> lstEntity = new List<Entity>();

int fetchCount = 5000;
int pageNumber = 1;
string pagingCookie = null;

while (true)
{
// Build fetchXml string with the placeholders.
string xml = this.CreateXml(fetchXML, pagingCookie, pageNumber, fetchCount);
RetrieveMultipleRequest fetchRequest = new RetrieveMultipleRequest
{
Query = new FetchExpression(xml)
};

var returnCollections = ((RetrieveMultipleResponse)orgService.Execute(fetchRequest)).EntityCollection;

if (returnCollections.Entities.Count >= 1)
{
lstEntity.AddRange(returnCollections.Entities);
}

if (returnCollections.MoreRecords)
{
pageNumber++;

results.pagingCookie = returnCollections.PagingCookie;
}
else
{
// If no more records in the result nodes, exit the loop.
break;
}
}

return lstEntity;
}

public string CreateXml(string xml, string cookie, int page, int count)
{
StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(xml);
XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(stringReader);

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(reader);

XmlAttributeCollection attrs = doc.DocumentElement.Attributes;

if (cookie != null)
{
XmlAttribute pagingAttr = doc.CreateAttribute("paging-cookie");
pagingAttr.Value = cookie;
attrs.Append(pagingAttr);
}

XmlAttribute pageAttr = doc.CreateAttribute("page");
pageAttr.Value = System.Convert.ToString(page);
attrs.Append(pageAttr);

XmlAttribute countAttr = doc.CreateAttribute("count");
countAttr.Value = System.Convert.ToString(count);
attrs.Append(countAttr);

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(1024);
StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter(sb);

XmlTextWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
doc.WriteTo(writer);
writer.Close();

return sb.ToString();
}

Version 2 –

private static List&lt;Entity&gt; GetTotalRecordsFetchXML(OrganizationServiceProxy orgProxy, string fetchXML)
{
XDocument xDocument = XDocument.Parse(fetchXML);
var fetchXmlEntity = xDocument.Root.Element("entity").ToString();

EntityCollection entityColl = new EntityCollection();
List&lt;Entity&gt; lstEntity = new List&lt;Entity&gt;();
int page = 1;
do
{

entityColl = orgProxy.RetrieveMultiple(new FetchExpression(
string.Format("&lt;fetch version='1.0' page='{1}' paging-cookie='{0}'&gt;" + fetchXmlEntity + "&lt;/fetch&gt;",
SecurityElement.Escape(entityColl.PagingCookie), page++)));

lstEntity.AddRange(entityColl.Entities);
}
while (entityColl.MoreRecords);

return lstEntity;
}




Hope it helps..

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Missing RemoveListMembersListRequest in CRM.


In one of our recent implementations, we were working with Marketing List which could be in millions.

So we had the recent request wherein we split the marketing list into groups.

For adding members to a marketing list we have the following request

AddListMembersListRequest 

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.crm.sdk.messages.addlistmemberslistrequest.aspx

which is quite efficient as we can add multiple members in a single request.

However, when it comes to removing a member from marketing, we do not have a corresponding Remove request like RemoveListMembersListRequest.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.crm.sdk.messages.removememberlistrequest.aspx

We only have RemoveMemberListRequest, which only removes 1 member at a time, which is highly inefficient when we are taking in consideration large number of records.

Kindly vote up for this idea !!

https://ideas.dynamics.com/ideas/dynamics-crm/ID0002529

More details

https://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/5d700a43-0c57-4a47-9c8e-192c70d30a2d/removememberlistrequest-causes-sql-timeout-error?forum=crmdevelopment

Using Shared Mailbox and Queue in CRM for implementing generic email address in Dynamics 365 and Exchange Online.


Recently, we had a requirement to send email to customers using a generic email address like donotreply@domain.com from Dynamics CRM (& Exchange Online).

The way we can implement this is through Shared Mailbox and Queue in CRM Online.

Log in to the Administration Portal

https://portal.office.com/adminportal/home#/homepage

Select Shared mailboxes

Members can be added to the Shared Mailbox

Now back in CRM assign the email id to a particular queue.

Now sending an email activity with From as Queue and to as one of the user inside CRM.

Open the user’s mail box.

Make sure we have done Test and Enabled Mailbox for the Shared Email Box and have set Incoming and Outgoing Email as Server-Side Synchronization.

Hope it helps..

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App not accessible to certain users in Dynamics 365 (CRM)


Recently we created a new App for one our clients and gave permission to appropriate security roles to access those App.

But still some users were not able to access the App.

Eventually we realized the Security Roles (custom one) assigned was not having Read permission on App to access it.

This fixed the issue.

Hope it helps..