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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
