Automatically move Attachments from CRM to Azure Blob

Once you setup "Azure Attachment Storage" application in CRM; you can use the "Report and Admin" link to move the existing attachments from CRM to Azure Blob. But the drawback of that is after every few minutes it stops - due to the plugin limitations. And if you have lot of attachments it may take…

Error connecting to Plugin Registration Tool: Multiple tokens in cache

This has happened to me multiple times now; hence thought about blogging it. Some times when you are using more than two users to connect to Plugin Registration Tool it throws an error - which makes no sense because few minutes ago you were able to connect and in next minute you get error. This…

Batch Execute FetchXML using Web API

This is not usually the case but sometimes you may have a Fetch XML which is too large to be executed using a regular GET method and wish it had a post method. There is a way, by using Batch execution. Things to note Content-Type will be "multipart/mixed;boundary=mybatchname" Data returned from the Web API cannot…

RESOLVED: Issue when copying CRM Portal from PROD to DEV

Recently, I faced an issue when we copied our Production CRM instance down to Development instance. The CRM Portal on development instance stopped working. Issue CRM Portal on development instance was showing provisioning for a very long time. It felt like was stuck in a loop of provisioning the portal instance. Now, this could happen…