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GroupCalendar Online 2015 Update

Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:40:00 GMT

It has been a while since the last GroupCalendar Online update. We have now added a few improvements that require your attention. Many of our customers are still on the GroupCalendar 2013 instances which are not up to date anymore. To benefit from the new improvements and features of the GroupCalendar 2015 version, we would need you to perform a simple task for us.

What can you expect from the update?

1. Performance: There were a lot of performance improvements since the last version. We’re constantly trying to improve the performance so our customers don’t lose too much time during scheduling.

2. Multiple data centers: GroupCalendar is available in more datacenters than before. After you’re done with the steps described below, it will be possible for us to move your installation without interruption to the latest release version. We’ll decide to which datacenter you’ll be moved to get the best performance available. I.e., it doesn’t make sense that when your CRM is located in Europe and connecets to a GroupCalendar instance hosted in the US.

3. New features: In addition to the performance improvements, we have also implemented a few other features you might be interested in.

Auto-Refresh: Whenever someone updates or creates a new activity within CRM, the GroupCalendar will automatically refresh its view. Each user will always have an up-to-date overview of the scheduled activities.
Quick previous/next navigation: The TopDown and Agenda view now have a separate navigation option to quickly navigate to the previous or next day/week/month. There is no need to open the right navigation pane to switch days/weeks/months.
Improved week number calculation: The calculation of the week numbers did not work in some special cases.
Performance Counters: In case you run into any performance issues, even with the performance-optimized version, we have added performance counters to see what exactly is slowing down GroupCalendar.

How to get the new features and improvments?

You need to prepare your system with the latest MSCRM-Addons.com Solutions so we’re able to move your installation to an up to date instance. This step could be quickly done by a CRM administrator. Please download these three files:

After that, please navigate within your CRM to Settings > Solutions.

Figure 1: CRM Solutions

Please import all three solutions in the above order.

Figure 2: Click on Import

If you want to use the auto-refresh feature, you have to assign all users the security role MSCRM-ADDONS.com GCAutoUpdate after you have imported all the solutions.

How long will it take to get the update?

We’ll periodically check if your CRM system was prepared with the above steps and if so, we will perform all necessary steps.

After we have applied all steps to GroupCalendar, your CRM connects automatically within 7 days to the new Group Calendar instance.

It could happen that some users will see the update earlier than others.

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GroupCalendar Online 2013 post-upgrade Steps

Mon, 04 Nov 2013 16:07:00 GMT

Please note: This article applies only to GroupCalendar ONLINE!

After we have finished upgrading your GroupCalendar to CRM 2013, it is highly recommended to perform the following steps to ensure full compatibility.

Please download the following CRM Solutions and import them into your CRM system in the following order
- MSCRMADDONScomGeneral.zip (460.43 kb)
- GroupCalendarServerCore.zip (6.19 kb)
To install the solutions, please open your CRM and navigate to Settings –> Solutions and click on “Import”

Figure 1: CRM Solution Import
Select the files in the above order and follow the steps in the wizard to import the solutions.
After all solutions have been updated, please clear the browser cache and the cookies. To do this, hit CTRL+SHIFT+DEL (works in all browsers) and select that the cache and cookies should be deleted.

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How to change the default pinned/unpinned status of the GroupCalendar side pane

Mon, 08 Jul 2013 10:21:00 GMT

The GroupCalendar side pane (which holds the view settings etc.) is per default unpinned. With a manual user-based setting it is possible to change the default behavior so that the GroupCalendar is opened with a pinned side pane.

To do so, please open the Advanced Find.

Figure 1: Advanced Find

Select the entity MSCRM-ADDONS.com User/Temp Settings.

Figure 2: Select entity

Then click on Results. From there, you have the option New MSCRM-ADDONS.com User/Temp Settings.

Figure 3: Result

In this dialog, you can create a new user/temp setting. Please make sure that the NAME is OverviewPinned_[USERGUID].

[USERGUID] is the unique user ID of the CRM user for which you are configuring this setting. The GUID must entered without the brackets, i.e. OverviewPinned_0a19dcc6-b470-e011-b77f-00155dc8ae09

The VALUE could be either true (for pinned) or false (for unpinned).

Figure 4: Set value for user/temp setting

Hereafter, please restart all browser windows to clear the session cache.

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How to enable debugging for the DCP UploadFile SharePoint webservice

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:02:00 GMT

1. Open the IIS on the SharePoint server and navigate to the SharePoint Site where DocumentsCorePack (DCP) is configured and the UploadFile.asmx WebService is installed. Select the IIS Website and click on Explore as marked in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Click on explore

2. This brings up an explorer window. There you’ll find a web.config. Please open that file.

Figure 2: Open explorer window

3. Please add to the appSettings-section.

Figure 3: Add

4. After the error is reproduced, you’ll find the debug.log in that directory.

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GroupCalendar for CRM Online & Internet Explorer 10

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 06:57:00 GMT

There is another small update of the MSCRMADDONScomGeneral Solution which fixes a issue with Internet Explorer (IE) 10 when running in compatibility mode. When you're not using IE 10 yet it is not critical when you do not import the updated solution. But we still recommend to update the solution to be prepared for IE 10.

How to import the solution to your CRM system

To import the solution to your CRM system you need to download the following file:

MSCRMADDONScomGeneral.zip (444.17 kb)

After you have downloaded the file, please open your CRM system, go to Settings, click on Solutions and on Import.

Figure 1: CRM Settings > Solutions

A dialog will open. Please select the downloaded MSCRMADDONScomGeneral.zip file and click on the [Next]-button.

Figure 2: Solution Import Dialog

Continue with a click on the [Next]-button in the following dialog.

Figure 3: Solution Information

Hereafter, please select Overwrite Customizations and Activate any processes.

Figure 4: Import Options

It could take some minutes until the solution is imported. After the import has finished, you will receive an information and you can close the window.

Figure 5: Solution Import finished

After refreshing your CRM browser window, GroupCalendar will load embedded within your CRM system.

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GroupCalendar fully supports Dynamics CRM RU12 (Polaris) and cross-browser compatibility

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:53:00 GMT

Our GroupCalendar for MS Dynamics CRM 2011 fully supports CRM RU12 (Polaris).
Up to now, the only workaround was to open the GroupCalendar in a new Internet Explorer-window.
Up from v5.45, GroupCalendar opens again directly within CRM. Furthermore, Chrome and Firefox are also fully supported by the GroupCalendar. This release also supports older CRM Rollups!

Supported Browsers

Internet Explorer 8
Internet Explorer 9
Internet Explorer 10
Chrome
Firefox

To benefit from the full support of CRM RU12 and cross-browser compatibility, on-premise customers just have to install the latest GroupCalendar version.
For CRM online-customers the GroupCalendar will be updated automatically, but they have to manually import a solution to their CRM system to view the GroupCalendar embedded in CRM.
Please continue reading for detailed instructions.

GroupCalendar for MS Dynamics CRM On-Premise

If you installed the GroupCalendar in an on-premise environment, you just have to update the GroupCalendar to at least v5.45. This update ensures that the GroupCalendar will load embedded within CRM and that it supports cross-browser compatibility.

You can download the latest version of GroupCalendar here.

GroupCalendar for MS Dynamics CRM Online

If you use the GroupCalendar for CRM Online, we will update your GroupCalendar installation automatically.

In the previous versions, the GroupCalendar was opened in a new Internet Explorer window due to a workaround.

With the latest version of GroupCalendar, you are able to use the GroupCalendar embedded in CRM again.

For being able to use and see the GroupCalendar embedded in CRM, you have to import and apply a solution to your CRM system.

Please note: If you don't update the solution, the updated GroupCalendar version will work but will continue to open the GroupCalendar in a new window!

How to import the solution to your CRM system

To import the solution to your CRM system, you need to download the following file:

MSCRMADDONScomGeneral.zip (440.50 kb)

After you have downloaded the file, please open your CRM system, go to Settings, click on Solutions and on Import.

Figure 1: CRM Settings > Solutions

This will bring up a dialog. Please select the downloaded MSCRMADDONScomGeneral.zip file and click on the [Next]-button.

Figure 2: Solution Import Dialog

Click on the [Next]-button in the following dialog in order to proceed.

Figure 3: Solution Information

Afterwards, please select Overwrite Customizations and Activate any processes.

Figure 4: Import Options

It could take some minutes until the solution is imported. After the import has finished, you will be noticed and you can close the window then.

Figure 5: Solution Import finished

After refreshing your CRM browser window, GroupCalendar will load embedded within your CRM system.

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Insecure content warning in IE when using FileExplorer with IFD

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:05:00 GMT

If you have configured your CRM for IFD and also have enabled our FileExplorer Integration, Internet Explorer (IE) will either not load the FileExplorer or show a message about insecure content.

Figure 1: FileExplorer not visible

Figure 2: Internet Explorer shows insecure content warning

If you run into this problem, please follow the steps below to resolve this issue.

There are two IE settings you need to modify

1. Add the DocumentsCorePack (DCP) Server FQDN DNS name to the trusted sites.
Open the IE Settings and on the Security-tab page, switch to Trusted Sites and click on Sites to add the fully domain name of DocumentsCorePack (e.g. https://documentscorepackserver.c3.ptm-edv.at)

Figure 3: IE Settings showing how to add DocumentsCorePack to the trusted sites

2. Modify the Local Intranet zone to allow mixed content
Open the IE Settings and on the Security-tab page, switch to Local Intranet and click on Custom Level to modify the settings.

Figure 4: IE Settings showing Local Intranet options

Then you have to scroll down to Miscellaneous and enable Display Mixed Content

Figure 5: Enable Display Mixed content

After you have applied these settings, please restart Internet Explorer.
Hereafter, the FileExplorer documents will be shown without any prompt in the an IFD environment.

Figure 6: FileExplorer Documents in IFD

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GroupCalendar online license notification

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:52:00 GMT

Per default, GroupCalendar will show 10 days prior to the license expires a notification to all users (see Figure 1).

Figure 1: GroupCalendar expiration

The notification can be limited to specific users and you can set the date of its first appearance.

There are two new settings to modify this.

1. Setting name LicenseNotificationDays: an integer value which indicates the number of this when the notification should be shown prior to the expiration date.

E.g. you want to receive the notification 30 days before the license expires, you have to set the value of this setting to 30. Please also change IsCached to Yes

2. Setting name LicenseNotificationUserMails:
a comma-separated list of email addresses of the users which will be notified.

You have to specify the email address with which you logon to your CRM system.
When this setting is not configured, all users will get the notification.
Otherwise only the specified users will receive the notification. Please also save the setting with IsCached = Yes.

Please also have a look on how to modify the global GC settings: http://www.mscrm-addons.com/Blog/PostId/9561/How to create a SettingsKey manually in MS Dynamics CRM 2011

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GroupCalendar Gantt View: Custom columns in the user list

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:54:00 GMT

Up from version 5.24 you have the possibility to customize the user pane of the Gantt view.

Per default, only the fullname of the system user is shown.

Figure 1: Default user pane in GroupCalendar

Up from version 5.24, you are able to customize the columns which will be shown here. You're able to define the columns, column widths and also the sorting.

As shown in Figure 2, we have modified the view to show the Access Mode, Full Name and Primary E-mail. Sorted by Access Mode ascending and then by Primary E-Mail descending.

Figure 2: Modified view of user pane

To define this view, open CRM and go to Settings > Customizations > Customize the system > Select Systemuser > Views and create a new view.

Figure 3: Create a new view

Here, you can customize your view. Define the columns you need, specify the width of each column and also the sorting.

After you have saved the view, do not forget to publish the customization!

Figure 4: Configure sort order

What you need now, is the unique ID of the new created view. You can find it in the addressbar:

http://crm2011r3:5555/alist/tools/vieweditor/viewManager.aspx?appSolutionId=%7bFD140AAF-4DF4-11DD-BD17-0019B9312238%7d&entityId=%7b60696D5D-4D78-4712-B4E0-6CBEF3DF4906%7d&id=%7b29A13E6F-EBF0-E111-977B-00155DC8AE09%7d

After that, please modify the global GC settings.

For details have a look here: http://mscrm-addons.com/post.aspx?id=ddd518f9-1cc9-4fac-bf53-e14ef7a4d52f

Create a new setting named GanttUserTemplateId and as KeyValue, set the ID of the newly created view.
Please also select IsCached = Yes

Figure 5: GanttUser TemplateID

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Gantt Printpreview for GroupCalendar

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:30:00 GMT

GroupCalendar version 4.84 offers a print preview of the Gantt View. This requires a small client side installation.

When you click on Print Preview on the bottom right corner in GroupCalendar, you'll see a message that the ActiveX control is not installed.

You'll find the ActiveX in the GroupCalendar installation directory on the CRM Server in the subfolder ActiveX

e.g. C:\Program Files\PTM EDV-Systeme GmbH\GroupCalendar for MS CRM 4.0\ActiveX

You need to run this installer on the clients which want to use the print functionality.

Figure 1: ActiveX installer

If you want to uninstall the ActiveX, run the installer with the parameter /u. e.g. RegisterActiveX.exe /u

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Execute Fetch from CRM 2011

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:11:00 GMT

Sometimes it can happen, that you want to execute a fetch simply to see if it works. And also see the results.

With the attached solution, you have the possibility to execute a fetch. Please note that this solution is not designed to generate fetches!

1. Download the solution and import it into your CRM System ExecuteFetchXML_1_0_0_0_managed.zip (5.35 kb)

2. Open the solution with a double-click.

Figure 1: Open solution

3. Then you'll find a simple text box and a [Fetch]-button on this form. Just enter your fetch in the textbox and hit the [Fetch]-button and you'll be presented with the fetch result.

Figure 2: Fetch command window - blank with [Fetch]-button

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Repair WScript.Shell ActiveX

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:09:00 GMT

In some rare cases the WScript.Shell ActiveX component is not correctly registered. This causes, that the DocumentsCorePack Print in Word and TelephoneIntegration Call Number buttons are not working properly. To resolve the issue open a command prompt and enter regsvr32.exe wshom.ocx

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How to open GroupCalendar for MS CRM 2011 directly

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:31:00 GMT

Simply open the following URL:

http://SERVER:PORT/ORGANIZATIONNAME
/WebResources/ptm_WebApplicationPreloaderGroupCalendar

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Additional Steps for DCP 2011 Directory Security

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:22:00 GMT

With the Directory Security Feature of DocumentsCorePack for MS CRM 2011, you can prevent users to see certain files from CRM records. Users will not be able to navigate to the associated directory within the file share or SharePoint because DocumentsCorePack will overtake the security for you. In short words: when a user is not able to see the CRM record, he/she will also not be able to see the documents.

For a detailed description, please have a look at the documentation.

However, you have to do additional steps for the Directory Security.

Each time a user accesses the documents through DocumentsCorePack, the user will be granted for this specific directory. Because it is possible that user privileges are changed, the user will not have permissions to see the CRM record anymore.

But the permissions are already granted. That is the reason why DocumentsCorePack resets the permission every night at 11pm (server time). But you have to specify a user under which the task should run. You have to do this manually.

To do so, please open the Windows Task Scheduler

Figure 1: Windows Task Scheduler

You'll see two tasks, the DCP FX-SPS Directory Security Resetter which is for FileExplorer and the DCP FX-SPS Directory Security Resetter sps, which resets the SharePoint Directory Security.

Per default, the tasks are running under the SYSTEM account which has not enough privileges to connect to CRM.

You need to specify a user which is able to read all organizations.

To do so, double-click the tasks and click on Change User or Group and specify a user which is able to connect to CRM.

Figure 2: Change user group

Now the directory security will be resetted every night to the default permissions.

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Print in Word General Error in DocumentsCorePack for MS CRM 2011

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:04:00 GMT

If you receive the below error message, please make a repair install of Office. This should resolve the issue.

Figure 1: Error message

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Upgrade from DocumentsCorePack Server v5.5 to a higher version

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:47:00 GMT

If you upgrade from DocumentsCorePack (DCP) Server for MS CRM 2011 v5.5 to a higher version, you have to completely remove DocumentsCorePack Server for MS CRM 2011 from your CRM.

1. Please ensure that you have a backup of all your templates generated through DocumentsCorePack Client for MS CRM 2011.
Please note: After the complete removal of DocumentsCorePack Server for MS CRM 2011, the templates will be deleted!

Unfortunately, in DCP Server for MS CRM 2011 v5.5 there is no option to export all templates (this option exists with newer versions).
So you have to do this manually.
You have to open each template in DocumentsCorePack Client for MS CRM 2011 and save it to your local disc via the Save as functionality of Word.

As soon as the new version is installed, you can import all templates via the Import Template-functionality in the DCP Server Configuration.

2. Run the uninstall routine of DCP Server

Figure 1: Uninstall routine

3. During the uninstall, you will see the following message. Please click on the [Yes]-button in order to proceed.

Figure 2: Uninstall process - security message

If you have multiple organizations where DCP Server is installed, you will see also the following message. Please click on the [Yes]-button in order to proceed.

Figure 3: Delete all customizations? - question dialog

4. After the uninstall is finished, please verify that the DocumentsCorePackServerCore solution does not exist on your system. To do this, open CRM > Settings > Solutions and check if there still exists a solution named DocumentsCorePackServerCore.

Figure 4: Solution overview

If the solution exists, you have to delete it manually.

5. After that, you can install the newer version of DocumentsCorePack Server for MS CRM 2011.

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Enabling SSL on IIS 7.0 Using Self-Signed Certificates

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:22:00 GMT

SSL enables browsers to communicate with a web-server over a secure channel that prevents eavesdropping, tampering and message forgery. You should always use SSL for login pages where users are entering usernames/passwords, as well as for all other sensitive pages on sites (for example: account pages that show financial or personal information).

Configuring SSL on Windows with previous versions of IIS has been a pain. Figuring out how to install and manage a certificate, and then associate it with a web-site, is something I bet most web developers don't know how to enable.

The good news is that IIS 7.0 makes it radically easier to configure and enable SSL. IIS 7.0 also now has built-in support for creating "Self Signed Certificates" that enable you to easily create test/personal certificates that you can use to quickly SSL enable a site for development or test purposes.

Using IIS 7.0 you can SSL enable an existing web site in under 30 seconds. The below tutorial demonstrates how to-do this.

Step 1: Create a new website

We'll start by creating a new web-site using the new IIS 7.0 admin tool. This admin tool is a complete re-write of the previous IIS admin tool (and was written entirely in managed code using Windows Forms), and provides a more logical organization of web features. It provides a GUI admin experience for all ASP.NET and IIS settings:

Figure 1: IIS 7.0

To create a new site on the box, right click on the Web Sites-node in the left hand treeview pane and select the Add Web Site context menu option. Enter the appropriate details to create a new web-site:

Figure 2: Add Web Site

One nice feature of IIS7 on Windows Vista is that you can now have an unlimited number of sites on a box (previous versions of IIS on Windows Client only allowed 1 site). The 10 simultaneous request limitation on Windows Client versions of IIS also no longer exists with IIS 7.0.

Once we've completed the above steps, we will now have a brand new site running on our IIS web-server.

Step 2: Create a new self signed certificate

Before binding SSL rules to our new site, we need to first import and setup a security certificate to use with the SSL binding.

Certificates are managed in IIS 7.0 by clicking the root machine-node in the left-hand tree-view explorer, and then selecting the Server Certificates icon in the feature pane on the right:

Figure 3: Manage certificates

This will then list all certificates registered on the machine, and allow you to optionally import and/or create new ones.

I could optionally go to a certificate authority like Verisign and purchase a certificate to import using this admin UI. Alternatively, I can create a self-signed certificate which is a test certificate that I can use during the development and testing of my site. To do so, click on the Create Self-Signed Certificate link on the right-hand side of the admin tool:

Figure 4: Click on the Create Self-Signed Certificate link

Enter a name to use for the certificate (for example: test) and proceed with a click on the [OK]-button. IIS7 will then automatically create a new self-signed crypto certificate for you and register it on the machine:

Figure 5: Server Certificates

Step 3: Enable HTTPS bindings for our new site

To SSL enable the website we have created previously, please select the website node in the left hand treeview, and the click on the Bindings-link in the actions-pane on the right-hand side of the screen:

Figure 6: Click on the Bindings-link

This will then bring up a dialog that lists all of the binding rules that direct traffic to this site (meaning the host-header/IP address/port combinations for the site):

Figure 7: Web Site Binding dialog

To enable SSL for the site, click on the [Add]-button. This will bring up an add binding dialog that we can use to add HTTPS protocol support. We can select the self-signed certificate we created earlier from the SSL certificate dropdownlist in the dialog, and in doing so indicate that we want to use that certificate when encrypting content over SSL:

Figure 8: Add Web Site Binding dialog

Click on the [OK]-button, and we now have SSL enabled for our site:

Figure 9: SSL enabled

Step 4: Test the website

Add a default.aspx-page to the site, and then try and hit it with the browser by typing https://localhost/default.aspx (note the usage of "https" instead of "http" to indicate that you want to connect over SSL).

If you are using Internet Explorer (IE) 7, you could see this anti-phishing error message:

Figure 10: Anti-phishing error message

Don't panic if this happens - it simply indicates that IE is trying to be helpful by suggesting that a self-signed certificate on your local machine looks suspicious.

Click the Continue to this website-link to bypass this security warning and proceed to the site. You'll find that your default.aspx page is now running protected via SSL:

Figure 11: The result

Well done! :) That’s it! We appreciate your feedback! Please share your thoughts by sending an email to support@mscrm-addons.com.

Appendix: A Few Last SSL Notes by Scott Guthrie

A few last SSL related notes:

The IIS 7.0 admin tool has an SSL Settings-node that you can select for each site, directory or file that allows you to control whether that particular resource (and by default its children) requires an SSL request in order to execute.
This is useful for pages like a login.aspx-page, where you want to guarantee that users can only enter their credentials when they are posting via an encrypted channel.
If you configure the login.aspx-page to require SSL, IIS 7.0 will block browsers from accessing it, unless they are doing so over SSL.

Within an ASP.NET page or handler, you can programmatically check whether the current request is using SSL by checking the Request.IsSecure property (it will return true if the incoming browser request is over SSL).

You can set the requireSSL attribute on the configuration section within web.config-files to have ASP.NET's forms-authentication system ensure that forms-authentication cookies are only set and used on SSL enabled pages and URLs.
This avoids the risk of a hacker trying to intercept the authentication cookie on a non-SSL secured page, and then trying to use a replay attack from a different machine to impersonate a user.

For more information on IIS 7.0, please read my earlier IIS 7.0 overview blog post. Also make sure to check out the www.iis.net website.

To read more of my Tips and Tricks blog posts, please visit my Tips and Tricks Summary Page.

SSL für SharePoint 2007

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:56:00 GMT

Source: The RIGHT way to enable SSL on MOSS Web Applications

I have been going back and forth a few times on enabling SSL on MOSS 2007 Web applications and here is the way that I have found to work best.

1. Go to central admin --> Create or extend a new web application --> Create a new web application.

2. Fill in the Web app, DB and App pool names as usual. Select yes to enable SSL on the web application. If you are using host headers for this web app, then enter those too. (Important: Make sure to set the port to 443, not 80).

3. After the web application has been created, reset IIS and then open up IIS mmc. Scroll to the IIS website that MOSS just created for you and select the right SSL certificate from the available certificates (Ask your network folks to generate an internal or external SSL cert for you depending on whether this is a test or prod server). Important: Go to the Home Directory tab and click Advanced. Make sure you set the host header and the right IP for port 80. For SSL entries, select port 443 and the IP. (If you have multiple IP's on the server, I usually pick one here for these entries). Click on the edit button for SSL entries and check the 'Require SSL' box. Also check 'Require 128 bit encryption' to make this more secure.

4. Now go ahead and create your first site collection for this web app. MOSS will automatically create a new site collection for you and present you with a "https://.." link upon completion. You should now have a SSL ready web app.

5. By default, if you want multiple web apps using SSL on the same server - this does not work in IIS 6. If you want multiple MOSS 2007 Web apps to be SSL enabled, there are two ways of going about this. One way is to get as many IPs as you want SSL web apps for that web server and assign one IP per host header settings for port 80 and 443 under IIS Website properties --> Home Directory --> Advanced. The other option is to modify the IIS metabase to allow multiple SSL web apps on the same IP. Be careful with the second option and make sure you know what you are doing.

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Error message: 1327.Invalid Drive: Z:\ during Installation

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:12:00 GMT

Verify that the values under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders use valid drive letters.
If there are invalid drive letters, change them to point to valid drives.
Try to install the software and check if that helps.

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How to configure DCP FileExplorer in an IFD Environment with WebDrive

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:17:00 GMT

In an IFD Environment it is hard to implement a FileShare which is available through the Internet. We found a product named WebDrive where you could configure, for example an FTP which will be mapped to a local drive.

Here is a link to the product website: http://www.southrivertech.com/products/webdrive/winindex.html

You are able to connect to FTP, WebDAV, FrontPage, GroupDrive, SFTP (ssh) and Amazon-S3.

We tested the tool and in combination with DCP FileExplorer Integration it works really fine.

To configure WebDrive, please follow the user guide of WebDrive. The important thing is, that you have to install WebDrive on the CRM Server and on all Clients. And the WebDrive must be mapped on all machines to the same local drive letter. E.g. W:\

Per default settings the WebDrive caches the files. So when one user creates a document and another user opens the file location, it could be possible that the file doesn’t exist for the second user because of the cache. In the WebDrive settings you have to set the Cache options to None.

Figure 1: WebDrive settings

After you have configured WebDrive to e.g. W:\ you have to configure the FileShare for the FileExplorer Documents in the DCP Config also to W:\

Figure 2: WebDrive settings - FileShare

Figure 3: DCP Server Config Setting

After these steps you should be able to use FileExplorer integration in an IFD environment.

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