Kyle Does Tech

Unifi NanoStation 5AC 10 HDX

I was working on a project to connect a house to a shed that was a little under 100M away. I used a NanoStation 5AC at the house and a NanoStation 5AC Loco at the shed. I chose the NanoStation 5AC for use on the house side, because I already

Simoco SRM9000 Programming

I wanted to take a break away from my usual PowerShell/IT related posting and talk about an older technology, radios. I wanted to talk about radios as it's really quite difficult to find information on the web to the point where it almost seems deliberately obscured. This post is

Email

Setting up DKIM on Exchange 2013 and Exchange Online Hybrid

Configure Exchange for DKIM

PowerShell

Use PowerShell to interact with a console application that doesn't accept arguments

Today I needed to use a tool that our in house devs made a little while ago. It changes something in a record on a remote CRM server. The app doesn't accept arguments from the command line as it was never thought anyone would have to run this on 98

PowerShell

Clear the Windows Update Cache

Sometimes Fairly often, lately it seems, you need to clear the Windows Update download directory. It could be that there's an update that keeps failing to install or no new updates will come down because something is funky. My new policy for any kind of problem with Windows Update is

PowerShell

Adding a parameter to a Powershell MAML help file.

Recently I've been trying to learn a little bit of C#, and I decided that the best way for me to start is to include something that I'm familiar with, PowerShell. I decided that I would try to wrap Slack.Webhooks in a PowerShell cmdlet, this should've been easy seeing

Service integration issuer information not found. Dynamics 365 On-Prem

When you try to register a new plugin step for a service endpoint (Azure Service Bus) and you receive this error: Service integration issuer information not found. This is due to the CRM App Fabric Issuer certificate not being set on the CRM server. I'm going to show you the

CRM 2016

Updating CRM 2016 to Dynamics 365 fails with 'duplicate key' error

Today I tried to apply the Dynamics 365 update to a couple of CRM organisations that were running on v8.0.1.79. This failed and in the log file I found the following error: dbo.SolutionBase' with unique index 'ndx_UniqueName'. The duplicate key value is (SnapshotSolution80) Just to

PowerShell

Installing Update Rollups on Microsoft Dynamics CRM Reliably.

I've been working with CRM for a little over 7 years now and in that time I've gone through the process of installing rollup updates probably hundreds of times. In our development environment we have about 12 CRM servers ranging anywhere from CRM 4.0 up to Dynamics 365. On

KB4012204 and KB4012216 break CRM 2011

It looks like something in KB4012216 and KB4012204 breaks the CRM associated views. For example if you load up an organisation record and click on contacts or any other associated view the blue bar loads half way up the page and the records don't load as shown: I just uninstalled

Delete Expired SSL/TLS WebApp certificates in AzureRM with PowerShell

I found this a lot harder to do than I would have thought necessary, which leads me to believe that there is some other obvious way of dealing with this issue. Nonetheless, after several hours of stuffing about with the AzureRM Powershell Module, I finally figured out how to remove

PowerShell

Install Dynamics 365 for Outlook without an Internet connection using PowerShell

Today I had the need to follow this Technet article and was a little annoyed that I had to manually create all of the folders and download and rename all of these files manually. So I have written a powershell script to do steps 2 - 3 for you. You

CRM

CRM 2011: Moving organisations from one environment to another en masse

In our development environment we have quite a few CRM servers and every now and then we have a need to build new ones and migrate all of the organisations from one server to another. I thought I would share the way that I do it in case you were

WMF5

CRM 2011 and WMF5 (PowerShell 5)

I decided to install WMF5 on a CRM 2011 server installed on WS2008R2 and see what happened. Environment The CRM server is deployed in IFD mode and had no Organisations on it at the time WMF5 was installed but was confirmed to be working correctly before the test. SQL2008R2 Reporting

Compressed (zipped) Folders Error [Content] File not found or no read permission.

Today while I was trying to make a backup of some files for a website I was about to modify I received the above error. After some googling I found that the general answer to this problem was to check your temporary folder permissions. I did this and found nothing

CRM

CRM 2016 IFD HTTP to HTTPS redirect no longer works

In the previous versions of CRM, when you put it into IFD mode and added a HTTPS binding to the IIS website, users could still hit the HTTP binding and be directed to ADFS for authentication and back to the CRM on HTTPS after authentication had taken place. In CRM

PowerShell

Configuring IIS SSLBindings in Powershell

There seem to be a lot of posts kicking around the web about how to do this, and they all show the same solution. Unfortunately that solution doesn't seem to work when you are using a wildcard SSL cert and need to target a binding that is identified by it's

PowerShell

Make Your ADFS Logon Page Less Boring!

If logging into ADFS is something that your users have to do on a daily basis, why make it a boring affair? I wrote a PowerShell Script that randomly chooses an image from a specified directory and sets it as the Illustration for the login page. It has the ability

Building a Hyper-V Server on an Intel NUC

Recently I was asked to build a solution to a problem at a small company where they needed a small server that didn't use much power, could run squid proxy and a DNS server. The office is relatively clean compared to the rest of the site, but it's no data

Review

The 6th Gen Intel NUC as a Media / Gaming PC

I have recently got my hands on a 6th gen Intel NUC for another project that I am working on. But before I started that I was curious to see what the 6th gen NUC is capable of and more importantly if it was capable of replacing the old gaming

Create a Windows 10 USB Installer from ISO

To create a USB installer disk when you have the ISO handy, you will need to go and download rufus. You can also use powershell to create these types of disks, but this is quick and easy. It's fairly straight forward. Just run Rufus, tick the "Create a bootable