Excellent article on how to publish reports:

http://blogs.inetium.com/blogs/tedh/archive/2008/01/17/how-do-i-move-crm-4-0-reports-to-a-new-sql-report-server.aspx

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When importing an organization into a CRM with a different base language, this is what is occurring.

Error Details:

Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown.

Full Stack:

[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
   at Microsoft.Crm.Query.CrmSqlSelectCommandStrategy.AddPicklistCaseStatement(AttributeMetadata attribute, StringBuilder sqlString, String tableAlias)
   at Microsoft.Crm.Query.CrmSqlSelectCommandStrategy.AddOrderByClause(OrderExpression order, AttributeMetadata orderAttribute, String tableAlias)
   at Microsoft.Crm.Query.SelectVisitor.Visit(OrderExpression order)
   at Microsoft.Crm.Query.OrderExpression.GetSql(ExpressionVisitor visitor)
   at Microsoft.Crm.Query.SelectVisitor.Visit(EntityExpression entity)
   at Microsoft.Crm.Query.EntityExpression.GetSql(ExpressionVisitor visitor)
   at Microsoft.Crm.Query.SelectPlan.GetSql()... ...

 

Ref:

http://social.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/crm/thread/32dc4284-feea-49bf-85d1-45b3fad7ca8d

YES! It is available!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=57c6267b-3b13-49dd-bfed-3cc83633aea7&displaylang=en

Check out the list of hotfixes it contains,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=952858

And another update to the Help Files is available here.

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Problem with the Calendar Schedule? With reports? and maybe a another bunch of CRM 3.0 modules?

... the first thing is to check the Framework Version used. CRM 3.0 works almost all with .NET 2.0. But it is not developed for the Framework 2.0. Version 1.1 should be used, and this solve almost all problems.

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I found this article that explains how to redeploy an organization including the data to another instance in the enterprise version of CRM.

http://blogs.technet.com/crmbipl/archive/2008/01/14/changing-crm-4-0-organizations-database-name.aspx

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Yes, you understand correctly, even if you are developing in .NET, you must use the appropriate SDK Assemblies. And this was introduced in the latest (to date) SDK version , v.4.0.5.

Here is a brief example on how you must choose the assemblies, by Ross Lotharius

http://rosslotharius.com/archive/2008/08/07/crm-plugins-in-a-64-bit-environment.aspx

If you are not using the right version, this error can occurred

Unhandled Exception: System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or asse
mbly 'Microsoft.Crm.SdkTypeProxy, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyTok
en=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a p
rogram with an incorrect format.

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>Crm Exception: Message: Organization With Name = Full Organization Name Does Not Exist, ErrorCode: -2147220969

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948746

There is an hotfix, but here is a workaround: Change the display name and rename it to the Unique Name.

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The answer is simple, access rights. The modification resides in calling

IContextService contextService = (IContextService)executionContext.GetService(typeof(IContextService));
IWorkflowContext context = contextService.Context;
ICrmService crmService = context.CreateCrmService(false);

not

IContextService contextService = (IContextService)executionContext.GetService(typeof(IContextService));
IWorkflowContext context = contextService.Context;
ICrmService crmService = context.CreateCrmService(true);

Because the administrative web services cannot issue tracking token... ! and you receive this error in the logs...

---> System.InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid.
at Microsoft.Crm.ObjectModel.TrackingManager.GetNextTrackingToken(String subject, String& trackingToken)
at Microsoft.Crm.ObjectModel.EmailService.Send(Guid emailId, Boolean issueSend, String trackingToken, ExecutionContext context)

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When installing the Email router without having exchange installed there is a link that point to the Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 download, and it is no longer working.

To fix this issue you can install the Collaboration Data Objects, version 1.2.1 but this requires to have

I have make it available, you can download it from my files (registration required to avoid hot linking).

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When importing Customization under CRM 4.0, you may accounter a freeze of the interface. The problem is when the customization file is greater than the configured maximum request length of 8 megs in the web.config of the CRM 4.0 Server.

You just have to change the web.config by modifying the line

<httpRuntime executionTimeout="300" maxRequestLength="8192"/>

with

<httpRuntime executionTimeout="300" maxRequestLength="16384"/>

And everything should be fine.

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