Some JQuery Plugins

JQUERY.PANELSNAPAPUERY.PANELSNAP : Panels that appear on scoll, inluding a side menu

- http://www.jqueryscript.net/demo/jQuery-Plugin-For-Smooth-Scroll-Snapping-panelSnap/demos/

Amazing : Responsive & Fluid Drag-and-Drop Grid Layout with jQuery - gridstack.js.

Can be used for Kanban!!!!

http://www.jqueryscript.net/layout/Responsive-Fluid-Drag-and-Drop-Grid-Layout-with-jQuery-gridstack-js.html

JQuery Sidebar - Comes from any side of the screen, can be used for secondary menu or for special options to an experienced user, like shortcuts.

http://www.jqueryscript.net/menu/jQuery-Plugin-For-Sliding-Sidebar-Menu-jQuery-Sidebar.html

JQuery Plugin for FullPage site, can be used for Presentations. Respond to mouse scroll.

Does not respond to touch events,( yet)

http://www.jqueryscript.net/layout/jQuery-Plugin-For-Fullscreen-One-Page-Scrolling-Websites-fullPage-js.html

SharePoint 2013 and Office Web App

Steve Mann installing the OWA server and connecting to SP2013 : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff431687(v=office.15).aspx
Microsoft Tech on installation, configuration and Installation : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff431687(v=office.15).aspx

Angular JS Partial Dynamics Loading Links

Question in a StackOverlow with examples : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23770096/how-to-easily-render-partial-html-from-a-string-in-angular-js
Fiddler with the example for the solution above, partial loading example with timers : http://jsfiddle.net/8Bf8m/29/

Controller and Controller loading Documentation:
https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/controller

Creating a Visualization App Using the Google Charts API and AngularJS, at SitePoint:

http://www.sitepoint.com/creating-visualization-app-using-google-charts-api-angularjs-part4/

Restoring CRM DB from SQL Server Enterprise edition to SQL Server Standard Edition resulted in Error : contains a partition function 'AuditPFN'

When moving a database from a development environment to a production Environment, We backed up the database and restored it on the production database server which is a Sql Server Standard Edition.

I Got an error when restoring CRM 2013 Database Backup saying the AuditPFN is used in the database and it needs to be removed when using a standard edition server.

The AuditPFN means that a table can be spanned over multiple partitions, something that the Enterprise edition can do and the standard edition can not.  

I hope there will not be any more surprises like this. I must say I was surprised to see the speed of moving the backup file which was some 10's of GB over the network, so doing multiple attempts was not a scary scenario.

the Error Message : 

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

------------------------------

Restore of database 'AAAAA_MSCRM' failed. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.RelationalEngineTasks)

------------------------------

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoExtended)

------------------------------

Database 'AAAAA_MSCRM' cannot be started in this edition of SQL Server because it contains a partition function 'AuditPFN'. Only Enterprise edition of SQL Server supports partitioning.

Database 'AAAAA_MSCRM' cannot be started because some of the database functionality is not available in the current edition of SQL Server. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 905....

OK, I search the internet and found thess posts:

KB by microsoft with a quick fix : Article ID: 2567984 : "Database cannot be started in this edition of SQL Server" error when restoring a Microsoft Dynamics CRM database

CRM 2011, Removing partitioning from SQL Enterprise Database by  ALTAI Systems.

XRM blog wrote this blog using MS KB : MS CRM 2011 Unable to restore SQL Server enterprise database to SQL Server 2012

The MS KB is a global solution but ALTAI just checked the database and found that the AuditPFN is used in just one table so they checked the installation  of CRM on a Standard Edition server. They built the script for that table and view, dropped them on the standard server and re created the table on the enterprise edition. After that, their processed continued.

I am working on a CRM 2013 version, so I will try the ALTAI route first. I will have a CRM database in standard edition to compare the databases.

What I did:

I backed up the database and restored to a new Database.

I started with the check written by ALTAI to find the tables with partitioning option. It was just AuditBase.

Then I reverse engineered all the indexes and constrains, the table and the view, and then removed the AuditPFN options.

Afterwards I re-inserted all the records from the original database after checking there was no change.

The scripts I built is this:

USE [Organization_Backup]
GO

/****** Object:  Table [dbo].[AuditBase]    Script Date: 09/30/2014 03:48:44 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[AuditBase](
[AttributeMask] [nvarchar](max) NULL,
[TransactionId] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL,
[Action] [int] NULL,
[ObjectId] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL,
[ObjectIdName] [nvarchar](1) NULL,
[UserId] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL,
[ChangeData] [nvarchar](max) NULL,
[CreatedOn] [datetime] NOT NULL,
[Operation] [int] NOT NULL,
[AuditId] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL,
[CallingUserId] [uniqueidentifier] NULL,
[ObjectTypeCode] [int] NULL
)

GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[AuditBase] ADD  DEFAULT (newsequentialid()) FOR [AuditId]
GO

GO

/****** Object:  Index [cndx_PrimaryKey_Audit]    Script Date: 09/30/2014 03:49:12 ******/
CREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX [cndx_PrimaryKey_Audit] ON [dbo].[AuditBase] 
(
[CreatedOn] DESC,
[AuditId] DESC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, DROP_EXISTING = OFF, ONLINE = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON)
GO


/****** Object:  Index [fndx_ObjectTypeCode]    Script Date: 09/30/2014 03:51:23 ******/
CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [fndx_ObjectTypeCode] ON [dbo].[AuditBase] 
(
[ObjectTypeCode] ASC
)
WHERE ([ObjectTypeCode] IS NOT NULL)
WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, DROP_EXISTING = OFF, ONLINE = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON)
GO



/****** Object:  Index [ndx_ObjectId]    Script Date: 09/30/2014 03:51:40 ******/
CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [ndx_ObjectId] ON [dbo].[AuditBase] 
(
[ObjectId] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, DROP_EXISTING = OFF, ONLINE = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON)
GO



/****** Object:  Index [ndx_PrimaryKey_Audit]    Script Date: 09/30/2014 03:51:54 ******/
CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [ndx_PrimaryKey_Audit] ON [dbo].[AuditBase] 
(
[AuditId] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, DROP_EXISTING = OFF, ONLINE = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON)
GO



/****** Object:  Index [ndx_PrimaryKey_Audit_Primary]    Script Date: 09/30/2014 03:52:19 ******/
CREATE UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [ndx_PrimaryKey_Audit_Primary] ON [dbo].[AuditBase] 
(
[CreatedOn] DESC,
[AuditId] DESC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, DROP_EXISTING = OFF, ONLINE = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
GO



/****** Object:  Index [ndx_UserId]    Script Date: 09/30/2014 03:52:33 ******/
CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [ndx_UserId] ON [dbo].[AuditBase] 
(
[UserId] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, DROP_EXISTING = OFF, ONLINE = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON)
GO













GO




--
-- base view for Audit
--
create view [dbo].[Audit]
 (
    -- logical attributes
    [UserIdName],
    [CallingUserIdName],

    -- physical attributes
    [AttributeMask],
    [TransactionId],
    [Action],
    [ObjectId],
    [UserId],
    [ChangeData],
    [CreatedOn],
    [Operation],
    [AuditId],
    [CallingUserId],
    [ObjectTypeCode],
    [ObjectIdName]
) with view_metadata as
select
    -- logical attributes
    [lk_audit_userid].[FullName],
    [lk_audit_callinguserid].[FullName],

    -- physical attribute
    [AuditBase].[AttributeMask],
    [AuditBase].[TransactionId],
    [AuditBase].[Action],
    [AuditBase].[ObjectId],
    [AuditBase].[UserId],
    [AuditBase].[ChangeData],
    [AuditBase].[CreatedOn],
    [AuditBase].[Operation],
    [AuditBase].[AuditId],
    [AuditBase].[CallingUserId],
    [AuditBase].[ObjectTypeCode],
    [AuditBase].[ObjectIdName]
from [AuditBase] 
    left join [SystemUserBase] [lk_audit_callinguserid] with(nolock) on ([AuditBase].[CallingUserId] = [lk_audit_callinguserid].[SystemUserId])
    left join [SystemUserBase] [lk_audit_userid] with(nolock) on ([AuditBase].[UserId] = [lk_audit_userid].[SystemUserId])

GO


GO

/****** Object: PartitionScheme [AuditPScheme] Script Date: 02/17/2011 12:59:16 ******/

DROP PARTITION SCHEME [AuditPScheme]

GO

DROP PARTITION FUNCTION AuditPFN;

GO

Create a Link to a Document in sharepoint

We had a scenario that resembles the following:
Files of type Word Document  will be created automatically in Sharepoint for an Incident and its associated tasks.
We wanted to separate the files for each task but let the user open the documents integration list for the incident and see all the files from all the tasks.
First, We created a folder for the incident and mapped the same folder to all the sub-tasks.
We thought that using Sharepoint authorization and sharing we can let each task user see just the files which are relevant to him/her.

After some reasoning I thought that it would be possible to create a seperate folder for each task and put a link (shortcut) on the incident folder.

In order to check how it will look, I wanted to do it manually first. I found this article by Colin Phillips that shows how to add a shortcut to the user interface.
http://mmman.itgroove.net/2013/02/add-link-to-a-document-to-a-document-library/
Basically, you need to enable Content Types selection for the document list and select the "Link to Document" content type.
After doing so, the "New Document" option changed and does not display the selection of office files but just lets you upload a file.

AppStart Theme

https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/appstart-responsive-admin-theme-WB0P4TG24

Sharepoint Installation - Intructions

Installing and Configuring SharePoint 2013 by Randy Rampel from EMC (Part 4)
http://consultingblogs.emc.com/randyrempel/archive/2013/03/17/installing-and-configuring-sharepoint-2013-part-4-of-4.aspx

CRM 2013 : Working with Identity Foundation on WIndows XP

Identity Foundation is not supported on Windows XP. However, in a project to upgrade CRM 4.0 to CRM 2013, I was asked to deploy a windows form application that works with the CRM on an XP machine.

I Need to check the Outlook client too.

I looked around remembering to see some solutions and here is what I found :
Developing on CRM 2011 with Windows XP by dorrekens
http://mkonrad.blogspot.co.il/2010/11/crm-2011-filenotfoundexception-when.html 
http://blogs.mscrm-addons.com/post/2011/09/12/WindowsXP-and-WIF-(WindowsIdentityFoundation).aspx

Activate the Post Configuration on CRM 2013

http://markmargolis.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/crm-2013-posts-activities-notes-control/

Charting Javascript Library at : http://visjs.org/

Visual Interaction System by Almende B.V.

Vis.js is a dynamic, browser based visualization library. The library is designed to be easy to use, to handle large amounts of dynamic data, and to enable manipulation of and interaction with the data. The library consists of the components DataSet, Timeline, Graph, and Graph3d.

The vis.js library is developed by Almende B.V, as part of CHAP. Vis.js runs fine on Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE9+, and most mobile browsers (with full touch support).

Add an item to a CRM 2011 queue using javascript - Post by Richard Barclay

http://www.intergr8it.net/?p=197

Kendo Mobile Gotchas, Tips, Tricks | Coding With Spike!

Kendo Mobile Gotchas, Tips, Tricks | Coding With Spike!: "on the Kendo UI Music Store sample web site for weeks, I switched to making a mobile version using Kendo Mobile and Icenium (which, by the way, is awesome!). There were a lot of things that didn’t "

chrisekelley/Version · GitHub

chrisekelley/Version · GitHub:



Cordoba 3.0 plugin to Check Version of package.



The Version of the package should be displayed by the system for support by IT.



It tells the IT if the user updated the application and that the support request is based on the same version the that IT is checking.

AngularJS Fundamentals In 60-ish Minutes - YouTube

AngularJS Fundamentals In 60-ish Minutes - YouTube:



'via Blog this'

Node Js in ASP.NET MVC 4 in IIS 8 Windows 8.1 - CodeProject

Node Js in ASP.NET MVC 4 in IIS 8 Windows 8.1 - CodeProject:



Another way to include Node.JS in IIS is by settings modules in an ASP.NET MVC, as suggested by lizhong huang in his article. 

Using AngularJS in an ASP.Net Application | TechEd Australia 2013 | Channel 9

Using AngularJS in an ASP.Net Application | TechEd Australia 2013 | Channel 9:



Channel9 from Australia on Angular JS and ASP.NET application.

It has an introduction with code to Angular JS

AngularJS -‏ OneDrive

AngularJS -‏ OneDrive:

Eyal Vardi presentations on AngularJS

Code for Sending Email to Unresolved Recipients

Its All About Microsoft Dynamics Business Solutions: Dynamics CRM 2011 : C# Code for Sending Email to Unresolved Recipients: "Code for Sending Email to Unresolved Recipients"



'via Blog this'

Forward: The open source platform for custom e-commerce - with MongoDB

Forward: The open source platform for custom e-commerce - with MongoDB:



This might be a good solution to build an e-commerce site that works with many different CRM installations, since it is easy to customize. The backbone used MongoDB.

If you want to build a stand alone E-commerce site which is separated from the CRM and build interfaces for communication, you need a flexible solution to hold the different changes customized in the CRM and must be replicated to the Site.

Problem Installing CRM 2011 Email Router on an Old Server, Error : Action Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Common.Analyzer+CollectAction failed

When installing  CRM2011 Email router I got and Error saying  "Action Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Common.Analyzer+CollectAction failed".
I retried the installation and got the same thing.

Fast search on Dr. Google pointed me to the solution:
The problem arises from registry settings left in the system from the CRM 4.0 Email router application.
After the uninstall, not all references to the installed files were deleted from the Registry and you need to manually delete these. Not very hard, but since there are lots of registry settings, remember to use the find menu option ( CTRL+F)
The information is noted by Microsoft in this Knowledge Base artice :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2607018

here is what they said to do:
1. execute RegEdit.exe
2. find registry settings:
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\Installer\Folders

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\AA525E7FC7F524344B2B2650A4C6D64D 

use find option for AA525E7FC7F524344B2B2650A4C6D64D to make it easier.

Delete any reference to “C:\Program Files\Microsoft CRM Email”. DO NOT Delete anything else, since there are references there to the CRM Server if it is installed on this machine too.

3. find folder  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\68944CFD44299A6449C12100DDA86EE.
use find on "68944CFD44299A6449C12100DDA86EE8".

4. After deleting what is needed, the article says to boot the machine. unthinkable and ofcourse not needed. I had the Email Router installation program standing on the error with "retry" active, I click the "retry" button and the installation continued without the error.

Assembly Binding, no need to use Fuslogvw.exe

I had a problem deploying a windows service to a customer server. of course, at my servers, everything works great but not there.
The problem was a DLL that did not load and the service would not start.

I searched around how to log the binding of the Dlls and found the references to the  Fuslogvw.exe. I did not find the file where it was supposed to be because on a server you do not install by default the full SDK of .Net.   I thought that may be the application is not needed and looked some more and found this excellent "Back to the Basics article" by Scott Hanselman :
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BackToBasicsUsingFusionLogViewerToDebugObscureLoaderErrors.aspx

you need to set two registry settings:
First set the output directory on this string value : HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion\LogPath
second, turn fusion on  by setting DWORD value to 1 : HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion\ForceLog
Be careful with this.
After settings the ForceLog to 1, perform the operation, I had to start the service, then check the intended path for the file. They are generated immediately.
Then you can set the ForceLog calue back to 0.

You get two directories: "Default" and "NativeImage". the log files are created in both directories. I opened both directories and some problem in the native directory did not log in the Native directory, So I focused on the Default Directory.
Under the above directories I got a directory for the Application I tried to check and it had an Xml file for each Dll and they opened by the browser and are easy to read.
After reading the files I located the problematic Dlls and managed to load them.

Anyway, Even after the services did start., I got  no errors from the service and it did not write to the windows event log or the application log. So I checked again and the service would start but it did not load all the Objects it was suppose to load so it did nothing. Great.
I Checked the fusion files again until I found all the problematic references and fixed them.

The problem : For a reason I still need to check, after recompiling the projects manually, I got different Dll files with different sizes. After manually deleting the output bin directory and compiling the service again, I deployed the system again and It worked.

Sharepoint : list of addresses commonly used for creating a link to the correct page in your site

the list is listed at C# Corner :

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Blogs/14217/sharepoint-shortcut-urls.aspx

Customize a Path Gradient on Winform Paint

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7fswd1t7%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

Started using pomodairo - Pomodoro application built with Adobe AIR

https://code.google.com/p/pomodairo/

After using Pomodoro on my Phone, I thought to check an app that runs on my PC.
I need a task list with it to summarize what was done and did not find an easy to use app for android.

I found a recommendation that I liked here  and downloaded the application.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-free-pomodoro-productivity-apps/

After working with it for a day, the screens are to small and the app is simply not convenient.
I am going to write my own app.

Pomodoro Application, Tired of the ones I found

I think I am going to write a pomodoro application which will run as a widget. I hve a good one on my phone which I really recormmend, called ClockWork Tomato. it lacks some things I want, like writing Tasks and pausing the clock.

Here is a list of blogs on analog clocks :
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/138452/An-Analog-Clock-Design-Using-OpenTK-in-Csharp
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/mgold/VirtualClock09282005072736AM/VirtualClock.aspx
http://blog.csharphelper.com/2011/10/21/draw-an-analog-clock-in-c.aspx
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/mihai.popescu/AnalogClockWidget12072006042319AM/AnalogClockWidget.aspx

Message on Form Load : Principal user (Id=, type=8) is missing prvReadContact privilege

At one of the Sites that uses Orek CRM, A user is a field employee and as such he/she do not need to have access to Customer Information. The user is managing Tasks and We Support this scenario by copying the customer relevant information to the Task itself.



Today, the admin calls me and tells me there is a strange error on the computer of one of the employees that resembles the problem with the NameCtrl ActiveX control and he is sure that this is the same problem. He even checks this on his computer with the employee credentials and does not see the problem.



Because the Error, listed below, looks like an error on the server side, we checked the authroization of the user and added Read privilege to Customer and it worked. So after removing it, we check the communication on the computer using Fiddler and found the problem in the Presence service.



We then disabled the Presence setting for the whole system and it worked. Since other users are using the Presence to chat with each other, we will need to find a solution.

The User does have Attach and Attach to privileges and I guess the real solution is to remove them from his.

The post will be updated.



The full Error :



Unhandled Exception: System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1[[Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.OrganizationServiceFault, Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35]]: Principal user (Id=55d8854b-80dc-e011-baae-0022649937c2, type=8) is missing prvReadContact privilege (Id=ba09ec92-12c4-4312-ba16-5715c2cbd6da)Detail:

<OrganizationServiceFault xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts">

  <ErrorCode>-2147220960</ErrorCode>

  <ErrorDetails xmlns:d2p1="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Collections.Generic">

    <KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>

      <d2p1:key>CallStack</d2p1:key>

      <d2p1:value xmlns:d4p1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" i:type="d4p1:string">   at Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.VersionedPluginProxyStepBase.Execute(PipelineExecutionContext context)

   at Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.Pipeline.Execute(PipelineExecutionContext context)

   at Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.MessageProcessor.Execute(PipelineExecutionContext context)

   at Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.InternalMessageDispatcher.Execute(PipelineExecutionContext context)

   at Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.ExternalMessageDispatcher.ExecuteInternal(IInProcessOrganizationServiceFactory serviceFactory, IPlatformMessageDispatcherFactory dispatcherFactory, String messageName, String requestName, Int32 primaryObjectTypeCode, Int32 secondaryObjectTypeCode, ParameterCollection fields, CorrelationToken correlationToken, CallerOriginToken originToken, UserAuth userAuth, Guid callerId, Guid transactionContextId, Int32 invocationSource, Nullable`1 requestId, Version endpointVersion)

   at Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.OrganizationSdkServiceInternal.ExecuteRequest(OrganizationRequest request, CorrelationToken correlationToken, CallerOriginToken callerOriginToken, WebServiceType serviceType)

   at Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.OrganizationSdkServiceInternal.Execute(OrganizationRequest request, CorrelationToken correlationToken, CallerOriginToken callerOriginToken, WebServiceType serviceType)</d2p1:value>

    </KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>

  </ErrorDetails>

  <Message>Principal user (Id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX type=8) is missing prvReadContact privilege (Id=ba09ec92-12c4-4312-ba16-5715c2cbd6da)</Message>

  <Timestamp>2014-02-10T09:28:09.3875348Z</Timestamp>

  <InnerFault i:nil="true" />

  <TraceText i:nil="true" />

</OrganizationServiceFault>

Viewing all CRM Privileges, including hidden Privileges - Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Viewing all CRM Privileges, including hidden Privileges - Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs: "Viewing all CRM Privileges, including hidden Privileges"



A post by  David Jennaway about CRM Pivilegaes. It is about CRM 4.0 and I guess it can work on newer versions. I will try this with one of the customers on CRM 2011 and update this post.



He Lists the Privileges and even write reports to display them on your server. The reports can be found here:

http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/CrmSecurityReports

Incident/Case and Task ribbon is blank , problem in CRM Rollup 12 and Up

After installing rollup 12 and upwards, Customers may find that the ribbon is empty at the Edit Form for certain entitites, mostly Case/Incident and Task.
The problems comes from three reasons which can happen together or separately:
1. There is a Javascript Error on the form that stops the form load, this happens on the enabling of the form assistant, so disabling the Form Assistant will prevent the problem. This problem is seen in Firefox too. not just on IE.
2. There are other problems with the Javascript and HTML code that fails to execute. After Clearing the " Load pages in the most recent version of Internet Explorer" setting the form will load.
3. Rollup 14 installs the Activity Feed solution. If you installed it from the market before the rollup, the installation of the solution may fail.

sources :
problem 2 solution by Imagine Technology Group
http://thinketg.com/dynamics-crm-2011-ru-12-blank-ribbon-issue-resolution/ 
problem 2 solution by power objects
http://www.powerobjects.com/blog/2013/02/13/customized-case-ribbon-missing-ur-12/ 
problem 3 solution by chamara iresh
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19462988/crm-2011-ribbon-bar-missing-after-applying-update-rollup-14-in-ie-not-the-chrome

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Compatibility List and Internet Explorer 11

Microsoft hase a Compatibility List of products that Microsoft Dynamics CRM support.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2669061

To our surprise, after the rollups that support Chrome and Firefox that work great, The CRM product dos not support Internet Explorer 11.

This is like, after all the promises that microsoft made to support HTML standard in IE, comes a team at Microsoft and declares that the Microsoft product is incompatible with theHTML standard?  After loading pages in IE 11 we see that the system is loading ActiveX controls and the IE 11 does not allow them to be created. I thought that Chrome did the same thing, so what is going on here?      Since MS is not supporting it, I saw no reason to pursue this matter.

Anyway, We had a customer that insisted on working with IE11 we tried it.
setting compatibility mode and clearing the "Load Pages with the latest IE version" settings made the system work without problems, even in an WebBrowser control inside a WinForm Application.

CRM 2011 Integration with SharePoint: Custom Document Management | CRM Consultancy Blog

CRM 2011 Integration with SharePoint: Custom Document Management | CRM Consultancy Blog:



One of the best articles I ever read. Really.



The Article is about automatic integration of CRM and Sharepoint using Plugin.

I wanted to write that, but since this it exists, I don't know if I will do that. Anyway, I implemented it differently so I may write my own version.



The integration is done using plugin that creates a SP Folder for each new record and  then adds a discussion on adding SP Content Types to records.

Bulk Creation of SharePoint Folders with Dynamics CRM

Bulk Creation of SharePoint Folders with Dynamics CRM:



Great Idea executed using old school methods.

The Important thing is the lesson you can connect to Sharepoint using disk Mapping.

Virtual Box and Hyper-V VHDX file format

VirtualBox, my favorite virtualization app, does not support VHDX file format as a file for virtual disk.
To convert the file to a VHD file, a HyperV is needed to import the content of such file to a new VHD file you can create for a new machine in VirtualBox.
I created the VHDX using Disk2VHD in order to load backup the server and load it to my main development PC, so after the load I can delete the VHDX file.

This article by Anurag Gawande explains how to do this:
http://blog.anuragg.com/2012/10/vhdx-to-vhd-conversion.html

Problem Loading Solutions after creating fields on the target server

As usual, this si a Microsoft thing. We the developers, agree that the name of a field in a table
is its identification. We expect it to be the same in an Entity of a CRM.
Well, Some of Microsoft CRM Developers  disagree. They have an Guid as the key to the attribute from the Attribute table holding the Metadata.
If you create a field at two organizations by the same name, usually because you wanted to do a quick deployment of code and did not want or had pressure to provide a "solution" (your solution) to a problem, you have been hacked.
You can no longer load the solution because the solution loader will identify the original field and the one created manually as different fields and give an error.
You can find from the error the id of the field on the target organization and delete it.

Notifications in CRM 2011, Here is a blog article how to do it, keep in mind, it is still not supported by MS

http://rockstarbits.blogspot.co.il/2011/08/crm-2011-notification-area.html

The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code

The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code

by Joel Spolsky

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html


Here is the test. The article lists the responses and the reasons why these point are important.

After reading this, I am sure Joel is a person that everybody will love to meet.

	The Joel Test Do you use source control? Can you make a build in one step? Do you make daily builds? Do you have a bug database? Do you fix bugs before writing new code? Do you have an up-to-date schedule? Do you have a spec? Do programmers have quiet working conditions? Do you use the best tools money can buy? Do you have testers? Do new candidates write code during their interview? Do you do hallway usability testing?

Sharepoint 2013 Client, Starting to work with it.

Link to getting started with the Object Model Client :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/fp179912.aspx

How to: Complete basic operations using JavaScript library code in SharePoint 2013

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj163201.aspx

How to upload a document, two variations, one a simple, the other uses WEBDAV, which may be more appropriate, need to check this.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9847935/upload-a-document-to-a-sharepoint-list-from-client-side-object-model