200 Hour CRM Conversion August 28, 2010
Posted by rtrotto in Uncategorized.add a comment
We just finished up a conversion for a client from MS CRM 3.0 to CRM 4.0. Over 200 hours and 9 months of time have passed since we began the conversion. What was the problem? The largest problem was that the database schema had been altered. Various custom indexes were added and some referential constraints were removed leaving a mess of not only the schema, but over time, the data. I am sure the changes were well – intentioned but disastrous to a succesful , timely upgrade. All in all over 30 attempts were made. It was an interesting trip and learning experience but the moral of the story is simple …. If you plan on upgrading CRM (or any other product) … stay within the best practices guidelines. If you need more than what that offers … then document everything you do!!
November 10, 2009
Posted by rtrotto in Uncategorized.add a comment
Getting ready to meet my colleages in Nashville this week. If you do not belong to a organization of peers, join one!
October 11, 2009
Posted by rtrotto in Uncategorized.add a comment
Back and partially recovered from cub scout fall campout, it was a blast. Woke up with ice inside the tent! it was a cold one but tons of fun.
September 8, 2009
Posted by rtrotto in Uncategorized.add a comment
Busy work day but cannot help thinking about Halloween, only 53 days away and I have not even started yet … http://ping.fm/ubq95
September 4, 2009
Posted by rtrotto in Uncategorized.add a comment
Looking forward to having a long weekend of making up for a spring and summer of neglected housework.
August 25, 2009
Posted by rtrotto in Uncategorized.add a comment
We have a brand new client machine that just received Adobe CS4 Designer Suite. Six and a half hours later it is almost done. Something to keep in mind for the future …
August 24, 2009
Posted by rtrotto in Uncategorized.add a comment
Learned that packaged cart/storefront software really needs to be updated regularly. Took two hours to figure out that there was deprecated code in the storefront core code base … how old is your cart software? I want my two hours back!
August 24, 2009
Posted by rtrotto in Uncategorized.add a comment
Another manic Monday! It is going to be a very interesting week, looking forward to the challenge.
August 23, 2009
Posted by rtrotto in Uncategorized.add a comment
Standby – Ron just upgraded his social networking module to 2.0
MOSS 2007 – Error enabling Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure December 1, 2008
Posted by Joel Kriel in Joel's Blog (CRM 4.0 & .Net development).Tags: moss 2007, sharepoint 2007, sharepoint server publishing feature, site collection features error, try catch, try catch consulting
add a comment
Upon trying to enable the feature for publishing in MOSS, I ran across this security error. Access denied. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPPersistedObject.Update().
Under site settings logged in as site collection admin, go to Site Collection Administration -> Site Collection Features.
Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure
Provides centralized libraries, content types, master pages and page layouts and enables page scheduling and other publishing functionality for a site collection.
Click the Activate and this is where the error is happening.
Upon some wide searches I found this great post that provided a great work around. Here are the basic steps and link.
1. Open IIS Admin.
2. Location the Web Site for your WSS web application.
3. Goto to the properties and select the ‘Home Directory’ tab.
4. Change the AppPool to be the same as Central Administration.
5. IISRESET
6. Activate the Publishing Infrastructure feature on your site.
7. Change to AppPool back to the original.
8. IISRESET.
Activating Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure – Access Denied
