MS CRM 2011 Beta - CallerOrigin in Plugins is no more !!!

CallerOrigin has been removed in CRM 2011 Beta.

According to Experts, since the CRM 4 implementation was neither extensible nor reliable\secure. The recommendation is to not rely on caller origin when you extend business logic in the server (since it is easy for a client to spoof this data)

If you absolutely need it and can guarantee \ do not care about spoofing, create a custom field and pass additional origin info from the client.

Please note that we have a new property isOfflinePlayback in PluginContext to identify if a plugin was triggered as part of the Offline Playback.

Please have a look at the IExecutionContext. It has below properties:1. IsExecutingOffline
2. IsOfflinePlayback

For more information you can see in the CRM 2011 Beta Sdk. Topic = "IExecutionContext Members "

Hope it helps.

MS CRM 2011 Beta - Number of Tabs = 100

In MS CRM 4.0, there is a limit of 8 tabs for every entity. 

According to CRM 2011 SDK, "Each form can include up to 100 tabs. Tabs are a vertical stack separating the body of the form. Tabs may be expanded or collapsed. Navigation links below the form selector provide access to tabs. The body of the form will scroll to display the selected tab."

MS CRM 2011 Beta - You have already imported and upgraded this organization and cannot perform this operation again.

This is new in MS CRM 2011.

You will receive the above error in MS CRM 2011 when you try to import an Organization of MS CRM 4.0.

This is because in CRM 2011, you cannot import the same CRM 4 org more than once into a CRM 2011 deployment. The Organization GUID will not change. This is by design.


Hope this helps.

MS CRM 2011 Beta - DeletionStateCode - No longer available.

Finally it's time to say good bye "DeletionStateCode" attribute. The attribute has been removed from all entities.

Now, it is hard delete. If a record is deleted, it would be removed from the entity table.

Happy purging !!!!

MS CRM 2011 Beta - Product Keys

Here are the Product Keys for MS CRM 2011 Beta.

The following product keys are available for this release:
•Microsoft Dynamics CRM Workgroup (5 CAL limit):
  FF2JM-QX9PG-HXT8M-MMHXG-4MF32

•Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server (no CAL limit):
  4FDTK-3HYV2-D9CCJ-4MF9Q-QJ32X


Important
•Although the application may display a 90-day trial period, these trial product keys will expire after 270 days.
•Microsoft Dynamics CRM Professional edition is no longer available with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.

MS CRM 2011 Beta - Error adding user on On-Premise

You may get the following error when trying to add a user to an on-premise organisaion in MS CRM 2011 Beta.


Errors:
1. You do not have the necessary permissions to change the domain logon name for this user. The following user was not added: ....
2. An error has occurred


As of now the resolution is an IISRESET on the CRM Server.
1.) Open the CMD window (Run as Administrator) on the CRM Server
2.) type iisreset, then Enter.


Hope this helps.

MS CRM 2011 Beta - Invalid User Authorization

You might see below [Invalid User Authorization] error when trying to access / connect to Online CRM 2011.

The work around is, sign out of the currenyly logged in Windows Live ID from all other browser sessions. Once you signout, try to access your Online CRM, now it will prompt for Sign in details.

As of now Online CRM 2011 can't handle this. Hope this will be resolved in RTM by Microsoft.

Hope this helps.

MS CRM 2011 Beta - The NetworkCredentials provided were unable to create a Kerberos credential.

You might get the below error when trying to create a token for MS CRM 2011 Beta organisaion :

The application terminated with an error.
The token provider cannot get tokens for target 'http://192.168.1.99/XRMServices/2011/Discovery.svc'.

The NetworkCredentials provided were unable to create a Kerberos credential, see inner exception for details.
 
This is quite possible when you CRM is on Domain A, and you are trying to create a token from Domain B.

it's not going to work in beta currently. I believe there is an open bug for this. Hope it will get resolve in RTM.

See more information on the same:
Troubleshooting authentication problems with the Beta releases

Say Hello to the World of Dynamics CRM 2011 Beta version

Today, the Microsoft Dynamics CRM team has reached a key milestone as it releases the beta of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, for both cloud-based and on-premises deployments.

Available for download and testing in eight languages (English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Chinese) and 36 markets, this release marks the first global public beta for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online.

Additionally, beta for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 on-premises is available in 40 markets in eight languages.

Please see the below links for:
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Beta - On-Premise Download link
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Beta - Online and On-Premise Download link

Hope you enjoy the links.