How to do an Publishing of Dynamics Crm 2011 through ISA 2006 or FAG

This post is going to answer questions regarding ISA 2006/ FAG and CRM 2011 Claims and IFD. For this post we chose to let ISA handle the SSL Certificates as this is the common scenario for ISA deployments although other methods can be used. We chose to focus this blog on letting CRM handle the authentication while letting ISA handle the SSL session. The main reason for using IFD despite ISA’s ability to provide forms based authentication was that the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Clients for Outlook would run into authentication problems if prompted with an ISA login. In order to get CRM running with IFD a good starting point is to study the IFD guide called How to configure an Internet-Facing Deployment for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 it...

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New tool: for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 - CrmDiagTool 2011

New tool: CrmDiagTool 2011 Hello CRM community! Two months ago, Philippe Brissaud from Microsoft Canada asked me to help him migrate the well known CrmDiagTool 4 to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. I guess you know what I answered him: of course I help! Today, Philippe and I are proud to release this new version of CrmDiagTool. We focused on Server diagnostics and removed features related to reporting services and email router. The features are the following: Enable/Disable tracing Zip content of Trace directory Open Trace directory Generate diagnostic file Download it here:  ====================================================================================== This is content from http://www.dynamics-crm-2011.de | Dieser...

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CRM 2011 - ADFS 2.0 Federating with ADFS 1.1

CRM 2011 - ADFS 2.0 Federating with ADFS 1.1 So by now you've heard about CRM 2011 AND that it supports Claims Based Authentication. You've also heard that in order to create an IFD (Internet Facing Deployment) implementation which is recommended for Mobile configurations you're going to be required to set up a Secure Token Server (STS). Microsoft recommends AD FS 2.0 (Active Directory Federation Services 2.0) Now ADFS 2.0 isn't your Dad's old Federation Service. That would be ADFS 1.X. ADFS 1.0 comes with Windows 2008 and ADFS 1.1 is the flavor with Windows 2008 R2. So, this isn't an article on configuring CRM 2011 with ADFS 2.0 as that has been done and redone. You'll find much of what you need for this here in the...

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Posted in: CRM 2011 und IFD - ADFS 2.0

Microsoft Dynamics CrmDiagTool 2011

CRM 2011 – New tool: CrmDiagTool 2011 One of my favourite CRM bloggers and creator of lots of useful CRM tools has been busy updating my one of my favourite CRM 4 tools CrmDiagTool. you can find some information about the tool here. The tool is manly used to enable/disable tracing (which you can do without restarting the IIS server). You can also zip up the trace files you can download the tool here The features are the following: Enable/Disable tracing Zip content of Trace directory Open Trace directory Generate diagnostic file in text or html format with components selection Enable/Disable DevErrors Some screenshots: ...

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Posted in: CRM 2011 Troubleshooting

Exeeded Column Length Error When Configuring Claims Authentication When Selecting A Certificate

Issue: When running the Claims Authentication Wizard in the Dynamics CRM Deployment Manager to configuring Claims Based Authentication and you select a certificate that has a name longer than 128 characters Deployment Manager crashes. The error in the Platform trace is: Crm Exception: Message: Exceeded column length: Column Name, ErrorCode: -2147220970 [2010-11-04 20:17:36.256] Process: mmc |Organization:00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 |Thread: 3(SnapIn/Main-thread.) |Category: Platform.Sql |User: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 |Level: Error | CrmCertificateService.Create Exception creating Certificate, Name=(CN long_certificate_name :Exceeded column length: Column Name) Cause: There is a limit of 128 characters that a certificate name can have if it is the certificate...

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Posted in: CRM 2011 und IFD - ADFS 2.0