Change the CRMAppPool Identity

Most likely this is recorded in a thousand places, but I had a hard time finding info about what steps need to be taken to change the identity of the CrmAppPool. All you need to do is:- Create a user in Active Directory- Make sure the user has Domain User rights- Add the user to the PrivUserGroup of CRM- Make sure the user has 'log on as a service' priviledgeThe last step can be executed on two

Automatic provisioning of Organizations

Microsoft CRM does have a separate webservice for doing deployment related activities. There is a Deployment SDK especially for this webservice. You can download that here. One of the activities you can execute is automatic provisioning of new organizations. In this post I'll dive into the code required for this as well as some of the common issues while doing so.Basically following the next

Walk through all elements on a form

In some cases it is required to set all attributes on a form to disabled or do some other logic like checking which attribute has been changed. To do this you do need to walk through each attribute of the CRM form. My fellow MVP Mitch Milam has posted the technique to do this more than a year ago:http://blogs.infinite-x.net/2007/11/21/disabling-all-fields-on-a-crm-form/The most important piece of

401 Unauthorized when accessing the webservice

While there are many situations in which you can retrieve the error message 401: Unauthorized, there are some more difficult to find than others. Of course you have After you have checked the basic settings including:- Are the default credentials used- Does the user have an account in CRM- Does the user have enough priviledges in CRM- Is Windows Authentication enabled for the CRM website- Is

Hiding elements: the next evolution

One of my colleagues, Richard McCormick, has written a blog post for the Avanade internal employees. He has asked me to make this post publically available since it might be interesting for more people. Read on and get great code samples on how to hide attributes, elements and sections.Hiding Links & Controls in CRM 4 Before I go on, I should point out that this solution is technically

CRMAsyncService using 100% CPU

With one of my projects I've experienced a situation in which the CRMAsyncService is requiring 99% CPU power. Since this doesn't leave much left for CRM, we needed to get this fixed. One of my colleagues, Maarten Smid, came up with the solution of installing the Service Pack 1 for .NET 3.0. But before this can be installed, some prerequisites needed to be installed.The first step is to install

Plugin registration tools for Visual Studio 2005

The newest update of the SDK, version 4.0.8, includes updated projects for the plugin registration tool as well as the plugin developer tool. While I usually am pleased with updates, this update could cause some issues for some people. The updated projects are build in Visual Studio 2008 whereas they used to be build in Visual Studio 2005. This means that you will not be able anymore to run the

Displaying inactive records in associated view

In some situations you do want to show the inactive records in an associated view as well. My fellow MVP George Doubinski wrote an article about how to solve this by using a plugin:http://crm.georged.id.au/post/2008/03/07/Displaying-inactive-records-in-associated-view.aspx.In this post I will show that there are more routes to Rome. I've looked into the option of editing the query which is being