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200 Hour CRM Conversion

rtrotto — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:40:54 +0000

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!!

rtrotto — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:22:50 +0000

Getting ready to meet my colleages in Nashville this week. If you do not belong to a organization of peers, join one!

rtrotto — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:58:27 +0000

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.

rtrotto — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:49:21 +0000

Busy work day but cannot help thinking about Halloween, only 53 days away and I have not even started yet … http://ping.fm/ubq95

rtrotto — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:30:32 +0000

Looking forward to having a long weekend of making up for a spring and summer of neglected housework.

rtrotto — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:12:43 +0000

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 …

rtrotto — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:28:51 +0000

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!

rtrotto — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:31:20 +0000

Another manic Monday! It is going to be a very interesting week, looking forward to the challenge.

rtrotto — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:44:05 +0000

Standby – Ron just upgraded his social networking module to 2.0

MOSS 2007 – Error enabling Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure

Joel Kriel — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:32:04 +0000

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