Month: September 2014

Disable SSL check for enabling Data Encryption in CRM 2013

By now many of you might have already worked with Data encryption feature in CRM 2013. In case you are not aware of this new feature, I suggest you go through the following link. https://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/crminogic/archive/2014/03/27/data-encryption-in-crm-2013.aspx Isn’t it really simple to just go to Settings->Data Management  and enable Data Encryption with the key of your choice. …

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Get PrivUserGroup specific to your CRM Organization in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Hi, recently in my project, I had a requirement to enable Data encryption feature that is new to CRM 2013. While enabling and proving the key, we got an error – “The user account for enabling Data Encryption should be a member of the PrivUserGroup in active directory. We had to contact our AD support …

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Issue with Dynamics CRM 2013 SP1 upgrade after database import through CRM import wizard.

Recently in my project, i had to prepare a demo where we were going to show to the customers, the new service module enhancements. Since we needed our existing data to show the demo, we took a backup of our dev. environment and then restored into our POC environment. Since our dev. environment was with …

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Customization changes in Microsoft Dynamics CRM not working with latest version of Chrome

Cross browser support in Microsoft Dynamics CRM was a great feature. Wonderful isn’t it that you can open most of the browser(s) (check for the supported list in MSDN) and your CRM would continue to work seamlessly. And in recent months, I find lot of users have shifted to Chrome while they browse CRM. But …

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How to get name of the Logged in user in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013

In Microsoft CRM 2011, many a times we used had to get the name of the logged in user using client side script. Xrm.Page.context.getUserId() used to give us the guid of the user. But alas as simple as it may sound, getting the user name meant to query the user entity with the guid and …

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Using getClientUrl() in CRM 2013 and how is is different from getServerUrl() – Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Recently in my training sessions, i am coming up with this question very frequently. Hence thought of sharing. I am pretty sure that many of you might already know this by now. However this post might be of help to somebody trying their first hands on CRM 2013 and having this question in mind. First …

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{Error} Public assembly must have public key token – Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Hi, Faced this error very frequently during my early days with MSCRM. With all my enthusiasm, I would build a plugin and register it in my CRM. Oops! The plugin registration tool throws me an error. Once of the reason why this error is being thrown is probably because you have forgot to sign the plugin …

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{Tool} – Configure field level security for security roles in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Field level security introduced in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is simply a WOW feature to me. I just implemented it in so many projects with success and finally one fine day i had one customer who wanted to implement this based on the security roles. Well that’s the beauty of consulting isn’t it. We come …

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