Dynamics CRM on-premises – How authentication works

Applies to: Dynamics CRM 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016 and Dynamics 365 on-premises

In a Dynamics CRM on-premises deployment, you have to decide, which authentication type you choose: Windows authentication or claims-based authentication.
To illustrate how it works, there are old blog articles from Dynamics CRM 2011, there are very helpful for current on-premises deployments…

Microsoft Dynamics 365 (on-premises) v9.0 – SQL 2017 not yet supported

Try to install Dynamics 365 v 9.02 on-premises on a Windows 2016 Server with SQL 2017 Standard and it fails. Answer from a Microsoft support “…the SQL Server 2017 is not yet among the supported product from Microsoft. And it is not supported, because it wasn`t fully tested as environment.” The error despends on the SQL Reporting Server. SQL Server 2017 ist not yet support…

Helpful tool for performance counter analysis – PAL tool

Ever have a performance problem, but don’t know what performance counters to collect or how to analyze them? The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a powerful tool that reads in a performance monitor counter log and analyzes it using known thresholds.

It contains multiple templates – including templates for Dynamics CRM – with thresholds and you can get a report to analyze your output from collecting data with Windows performance monitor…

Microsoft Dynamics 365 (on-premises) v9.0 – Supported Components

Microsoft Dynamics 365 (on-premises), version 9.0 is now available. Please visit the download center for more details. EMail Router is included! See supported Component Downloads:
Dynamics 365 for Outlook, version 9.0 (Outlook client); Dynamics 365, version 9.0 Email Router; Dynamics 365, version 9.0 Report Authoring Extension (with SQL Server Data Tools support); Dynamics 365, version 9.0 Language Packs

Implementation Guide v9.0.2 on-premises

Deploy and operate Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement (on-premises)
Applies to Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement apps version 9.x (on-premises)
This guide provides a set of comprehensive deployment and operation topics that can help you plan, deploy, and maintain Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement (on-premises), version 9.x.

End of support for SQL Server 2008 / R2 and Windows Server 2008 / R2

End of support is coming for two commonly deployed server products. Now is the ideal time to upgrade, modernize and transform to current versions of SQL Server, Windows Server and Azure services for more security, performance and innovation.

End of support means the end of regular security updates.

Extended Support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 will end on July 9, 2019.
Extended Support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 will end on January 14, 2020.

Dynamics 365 Server, version 9.0 On-Premises – issues and problems

The new version for Dynamics 365 version 9.0.2.3034 is a worse RTM version.

There are many issues from technical part of view. Short overview:
On servers in my test environment, some prerequisites are missing. The import or create of organization failed. Migration from older version is not possible, you got problems with different things. Starting with enabled full-text catalog on organization, followed by error with “The AttributeLookupValue (Id=xxx) entity or component has attempted to transition from an invalid state…” and if you solve this by workaround you have the next issue with applying database updates…

Microsoft CRM 2016 / Dynamics 365 updates and hotfixes

This article lists the updates and hotfixes that are available for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Note! With build 8.2.0 the name of product changed from CRM 2016 to Dynamics 365 A great improvement is not documentend! In version 8.2.1 and also in 8.1.1 an performance bug with the views is fixed. In most cases there are […]