Break the Shackles of your CRM Environment!

Hi Nice day for you, Today I thought before starting my work Let me pass some information to google search content. I got lot of help from Google search to do my work easier. Sometime I think myself as selfish not contributing back to the search content. So some bit of information which might help somebody else. Okay.. Yesterday my boss asked me, we need to send a token while we send mails to customers either using Direct CRM features or third party using extracted list from CRM. That token should help customer to do some action in CRM without much authentication issues. Like... they can change their phone number by clicking a link. They were able to update their marketing mail preferences with the help of URL and so on... Indeed there are lot of concerns while we go to security team with the solution. They are asking about, Validity of token, Guest authentication, Defense against reply attacks, Defense against identifier misuse, Defense against Ma...

Here are Common tasks related to Environment movement of CRM How to change SQL server instance name: Check server instance name select @@servername Drop Old server:             sp_dropserver <old_name>; Go Create new server sp_addserver <new_name>, local; Go   Restart sql service is advisable SQL server backup and restore 1.      Back up the Organization _MSCRM database and the MSCRM_Config database. To do this, follow these steps: a.      On the computer that is running SQL Server, click Start , point to All Programs , point to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 r2 , and then click SQL Server Management Studio . b.      Expand Databases , right-click the Organization _MSCRM database, point to Tasks , and then click Back Up . c.      Under Destination , add the location to save the backup file, and then cli...