Error: Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Server.PublishDefaultDataAction

When you have uninstalled CRM and try to install this again, you might run into the following error message:Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Server.PublishDefaultDataAction failed --->System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'Void Microsoft.Crm.CrmCache`1.RemoveEntry(System.String)'.This is being caused by the fact that you have other components of CRM still installed from the previous installation.

The path is not of a legal form

While installing the Dynamics CRM Data Migration Manager on a Dynamics CRM server, you might get this error message:The path is not of a legal formTo solve this error you should go to the registry and change the InstallLocation of the CRM server. The location is different for x86 and x64, but can easily be found by going to:[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\

Unexpected 401 when using NetworkService in Web Service call

When you are calling any CRM Web Service and you decide to specify your own credentials by using a new instance of NetworkCredential, then you should make sure that you are not specifying the 'UseDefaultCredentials' after you have specified the Credentials. This will cause IIS to not fully understand how to authenticate. The result is that you will get this 401.2 error message: Unauthorized:

Loveparade drama

For those of you who do know me a bit, you'll know that I'm a fan of the Love Parade. Every year I'm there. This year was no different in that regards, a friend, my girlfriend and myself have attend this event this years Love Parade as well. As you might have heard, there has been a dramatic incident at the party this year which caused 19 people to die and hunderds of people to get insured. I'm

A Hundred Visions and Revisions

Time for you and time for me,

And time yet for a hundred indecisions

And for a hundred visions and revisions,

Before the taking of a toast and tea.

MVP reawarded

I’d like to share with you that Microsoft has awarded me for the fifth time in a row the MVP award. This award is given by Microsoft to the people who are considered to be community leaders in a specific technology. This year some of my community activities include- Giving presentations on the Convergence in Frankfurt en Rotterdam to +/- 200 Dynamics CRM customers- Sharing insight about how to

Performance test with 100.000 concurrent users

Did you know that Microsoft and Dell performed a performance test on Dynamics CRM which included 100.000 concurrent users? They created a whitepaper about this test. If you're worried about the capabilities of the Dynamics CRM / xRM platform, then this is a must read: DownloadHere's the summary of the white paper:Microsoft® Dynamics CRM 4.0 is designed to help enterprise organizations attain a

Special Epicenter price for my blog readers

The organization of Epicenter have very kindly allocated 10 'concession tickets' for me to offer to people.One Day €129.00 Now €50.00 Save €80.00Two Days* €189.00 Now €100.00 Save €90.00Three Days* €229.00 Now €150.00 Save €80.00Four Days* €239.00 Now €200.00 Save €39.00Be the first to book. More details:http://epicenter.ie/2010_Ronald_Lemmen_Page

Speaking at the Epicenter 2010

If you don't have plans for this week yet, then you should consider coming over to Dublin for the Epicenter 2010. Matt Wittemann and myself will be doing presentations at this event around Dynamics CRM and xRM on Wednesday the 9th of June. Next to these sessions I'd like to share some of the other highlights of the event:Tuesday - Chris Horn on the Future of Irish Software with the Governments

0x81020030: Invalid file name

I'm using the approach as described here to create a folder in SharePoint. For some reason I do get the following error message every now and then.0x81020030:Invalid file name.The file name you specified could not be used. It may be the name of an existing file or directory, or you may not have permission to access the file.Apparently this does not have to do anything with an existing file or

CRMAsyncService using 100% CPU v2

A while ago I wrote an article around how to handle the situation that the CRMAsyncService is consuming 99 to 100% of the CPU of the CRM Server. That solution has been written around the scenario that there are basically no workflows running. Obviously, there is the possibility as well that the amount of workflows is causing such behavior.CRM is tested to be capable of handling thousands of

ExactTarget Error: No results were received from the ExactTarget API

If you are working on extensive integration with ExactTarget from Dynamics CRM, then you might come accross this error message:"Error during send processing." "ExactTarget.MSCRM4.BusinessLogic.Connector.ExactTargetSendException: No results were received from the ExactTarget API. Send status is unknown. ---> ExactTarget.MSCRM4.BusinessLogic.Connector.ExactTargetSendException: No results were

Plug-in code for SharePoint List creation

Like most of you know, Microsoft has created a demo VPC which you can download from partnersource. On this demo there are some interesting features. For instance, if you do create an account, then automatically a sharepoint folder is created and linked to the account. This has been done by using a plugin. The plug-in code has been added below. Of course you will need to change some things related

Create Folder in SharePoint using Web Services

Thanks to some other bloggers on the web, especially David Klein, I've been able to quickly build code which allows me to create and/or ensure that a folder in a particular document library does exist. It took a while to get everything working exactly as it should, but in this post I do paste the code as it works.First you would need to create a web reference to the following webservice:http://

SharePoint error message 0x8107026f

Interesting. For the first time in quite a while I'm programming agains SharePoint again. I am working on a possibility to upload files to a specific location in WSS, so the steps I need to make sure are:- Check if the destination folder exist- Create the destination folder if necessary- Upload the fileIn the process of creating the destination folder I do encounter a couple of error messages.

Retrieving emails from ExactTarget based on a folder

There are some interesting documentation issues with regards to ExactTarget. For instance, if you are programming against ExactTarget to retrieve all emails which belong to a specific folder, then you would expect that you can filter on the 'folder' attribute of an email. Apparently that doesn't work, but you will have to use the CategoryID attribute. But then again, filtering against the

Error: End element 'Fault' from namespace '' expected

When connecting to a WSE 3.0 service, like ExactTarget, you might encounter this exception:"End element 'Fault' from namespace 'http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope' expected. Found element 'detail' from namespace ''This does basically mean that the soap version of the client doesn't match the server. You might be able to change this in the web.config. For ExactTarget they require you to add a

Retrieve Marketinglists attached to Campaign Activity

Today I've been doing some coding again and I've found an interesting situation. For my code I do need to find which marketing lists belong to a specific Campaign Activity. Apparently more people on the internet faced the same issue, but I haven't found anybody who supplied the answer on how to do that. I've managed to find an approach which works for both the fetchXml as well as a

Minimal requirements for configuring Outlook Client (Online version)

Some customers don't allow end users to install software on their own desktop. This can even go up to completely locked down systems on which the end users doesn't have any rights. Installing the CRM outlook client on such a machine is a quite a hard task to do. Usually this can be scripted and by doing so it will be installed by a user with enough rights. After installing the Outlook client, it

CRM 5 and Windows Azure

Girish Raja has created a nice video in which he shows a real life example of how Windows Azure can be used in combination with Dynamics CRM. Not only is he using Dynamics CRM, he is using CRM 5. Make sure you watch this video to learn some neat things about:- Dynamics CRM 5.0 (including nested grids, visualizations and dashboards)- Windows Azure (including AppFabric Service Bus)Girish Raja's blog