I am doing data integration from Dynamics CRM to Azure SQL Database using Azure Data Factory. I am unable to fetch the custom fields
created in Dynamics CRM for doing the mapping in integration. Please help me with the solution for the above.
We ran pretty hard into the limitations of the Dynamics connector of Azure Data Factory v2. The ADF Dynamics connector does not expand the fields and requires a way too big rewrite of our current logic. Either with an entity selection or FetchXML, same results.
We were using SSIS + Cozyroc that did expand a lot of fields automatically. So we are back to using SSIS + Cozyroc. And since running custom components on SSIS-IR is... challenging we are also back to running SSIS on-premise.
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We have a on-prem instance of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The associated entities in all the forms come up blank and no records show up.
When I get this error in on-prem environments, it's usually because the database is getting pinged and queries to it are timing out. You may want to check the database to see if it is being overwhelmed and unable to return data.
we ended up updating the CRM version to resolve the issue.
temporary fix was implemented by restoring a backup of the database.
At our company we currently have a Dynamics CRM 2015 instance running, which has all its databases located on our central database server. Recently, we started developing a new solution, this time based on Dynamics CRM 2016, and for this version too we want to have its databases located on our central database server.
However, when I try to install this CRM 2016 instance, the CRM 2016 installer reports the following error (which is correct, as the existing database is from our CRM 2015 instance):
The following databases already exist on the specified SQL Server: MSCRM_CONFIG
Is it supported to deploy two different versions of Dynamics CRM on the same database server, and if so, how?
It's not supported to have two CRM installation (even same version) on the same SQL server instance. Also installing CRM on same server but on separate instances might put you in trouble with for example SSRS Report Connector.
I take it that you currently have your SQL server deployed using the default instance? (ie; you reference you SQL server as <machine_name>)
If you're not in a position to create a new SQL server (the main limitation being licensing) one option you can consider would be to deploy an additional named instance on the existing server. You could then point your new CRM deployment at, for example, <machine_name>\CRM2016
I am using scribe to migrate the Principal Object access data from CRM 4.0 to CRM 2016 DB.
The source adapter is a SQL Data Adapter which reads the data from the POA table in 4.0.
The destination adapter is the CRM Adapter and I have an insert step to insert the data into CRM 2016.
In the destination adapter, Scribe does not allow me to add the data links to PrincipalId and ObjectId fields from the source.
As far as I know, both of these fields are required to create a principal access object. However, since I can not create the data links, I do not know how I can copy this data over to CRM 2016.
Has anyone ever tried to Migrate the Principal Object Access table using scribe and have any suggestions for me to try out?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
A few things I've noticed from your screenshot that might help you out:
You're trying to set the principalobjectaccessid on insert. I would think this is a no-no as you are creating a crm record and want a new guid to be assigned at that time instead.
You're doing the lookup to the type code but not to the foreign keys for the objectid and the principal id. You would need to refer to those (probably by name or an xref table as the guids will be different post import) in order to get the sharing in place.
In order to lookup those objects and principals you will need them to be entered into CRM2016 in a prior step.
One caveat I'd add is that based on the limited knowledge I have of you trying to move a 4.0 thought process involving sharing over to CRM 2016 this very well could be a bad idea. While sharing is still supported and certainly a part of the application there's performance issues that come up with extensive sharing and it's honestly a much more complex thing to work with then utilizing teams.. As I'm sure you're noticing now.
The POA table is internal to CRM and shouldn't be written to directly, even via the API.
It stores details of how records (determined by the objectid) are shared to users/teams (determined by principalid).
It sounds like you want to migrate your shares from CRM 4.0 to 2016. Scribe has a mechanism for doing this, using virtual fields. Look in the help for "Adapter for Microsoft Dynamics CRM" and search for "Granting Access". This explains how to use the virtual fields.
I have a task to migrate Data from a CRM on premise data to a CRM online organization. I used two options, which are, migrated data using CRM import wizard and MSCRM Toolkit. But in both options, ownership of the records change to the user who migrated the data and the created on date is also got changed.
In my application, owners of the records are important because some of the filtered views are based on that information. Hence is there a better way(tool or process) to migrate the data maintaining the record ownership?
I would suggest to use SSIS Integration Toolkit from Kingswaysoft. Inside it you can map owners between old and new CRM. Also you can use overriddencreatedon field during import to override creation date of a record with actual value.
I have two CRM's MS CRM 2011 (on-premise with SQL server 2008) and MS CRM 2011 (in the cloud).
I want to migrate data from on-premise to online using SSIS 2008, were i installed a third party components like "CRM Source Component" and "CRM Destination Component". Here when i'm trying to map all attribute from source to destination except auto generated fields(GUID) or lookup fields in CRM like Accountid, ParentCustomerid, territoryid(which are relationship fields(FK) with other entities) etc., data is moving perfectly else package is getting failed.
Here how can I load these missing attribute values into CRM?
It could be that you are violating the referential integrity constraints. Try removing ( temporarily) all the constraints on the destination tables before executing your package.