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Starting with the upcoming release of the July 2017 update for Dynamics 365 (online), Microsoft will require connections to utilize TLS 1.2 (or better) security. This aligns with updated Microsoft and industry security policies and best practices, and certain actions might be required to maintain connectivity to the Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement applications.

The preview version of SSDT for Visual Studio 2017 (15.3.0 preview) is now available. This release introduces a standalone web installation experience for SQL Server Database, Analysis Services, Reporting Services, and Integration Services projects in Visual Studio 2017 15.3 or later.

Towards the end of June, Microsoft announced that the Microsoft Dynamics CRM/365 Outlook client will be deprecated in a future release. The Legacy Outlook client has been around since early versions of Dynamics CRM. The deprecation of the Outlook client does not mean that this is happening immediately, but is planned for the next Major Release (version 10). Version 9.0 is on the way, and the Outlook client will still be included, but with no additional features or enhancements.

Our CRM Exchange Sync with support for Microsoft Dynamics 365 has just been released, now with additional functionality and support for additional environments. The CRM Exchange Sync application provides the capability of synchronizing between Microsoft Dynamics CRM Marketing Lists and Contacts with Exchange Distribution Groups, Mail Contacts and Mail User records.

Our CRM Exchange Sync tool has just been released, now with additional functionality and support for additional environments.

The CRM Exchange Sync application adds the capability of synchronizing between Microsoft Dynamics CRM Marketing Lists and Contacts with Exchange Distribution Groups, Mail Contacts and Mail User records. The application retrieves the data from Microsoft Dynamics CRM Marketing Lists (both static or dynamic), and adds the members of the lists to Microsoft Exchange. If the members already exist in Exchange, the application can update them.

Recently we have encountered an issue where a domain admin (and local admin) account was trying to access the SSRS Report Manager and Report Server web sites and was getting the following error:
User DOMAIN\UserAccount does not have the required permissions. Verify that the permissions have been grated and Windows User Account Control (UAC) have been addressed.

When configuring ADFS in your own local the default login of any user authenticating into the environment would be user@domain.local or something of that sort. At many times, especially when working with multiple applications, we would like the user to authenticate using different login credentials such as user@mynewdomain.com. In order to implement this, we can add suffixes that gives us the ability to user a friendly logon name that is not the same as the domain or parent's domain name.

When configuring Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 to your Claims based Authentication a Authentication Required dialog box appears every 20 minutes.
By default the security token lifetime for claims–based authentication deployment using ADFS 2.0 (or above) is 60 minutes, however the token expiration dialog box will appear 20 minutes before the actual expiration.

When the Authentication required dialog box appears, you can either click Sign In, enter your credentials and stay connected to the session (a new security token will be issued). If you have only set Claims based Authentication and not IFD, the re-authentication will happen automatically.

This is a known issues and happens usually when new products get released.
The Anti-Virus email scanner add-in for the new release of the e-mail program is not supported and thus prevents e-mails from going out and crashes the new application.

On Friday, September 14, we have released our latest version of the CRM to Exchange Synchronization application. The latest release, now also available for a 30-day trial, includes additional new features as well as easier configuration, multi-culture support logging capabilities and more.