Action Cancelled: MSCRMKeyGenerator - 18949

When openning the CRM shortcut you promptly receive the message "Action Cancelled"

Error log details:

Source:   MSCRMKeyGenerator

Event ID: 18949

Current active key (KeyType : CrmWRPCTokenKey) is expired. This can indicate that a key is not being regenerated properly. Current Active Key : CrmKey(Id:c2e0c738-dc7a-dd11-b61e-00188b3466e9, ScaleGroupId:00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000, KeyType:CrmWRPCTokenKey, Expired:True.....

I recently came across this error a few times. On all occasions I had no luck in sorting it out the usual way:

Start services.msc and ensure that Microsoft CRM Asynchronous Processing Service is started.

If like in my case, you find that this service was already running, then save yourself hours of scratching and simply restart the SQL Server housing the CRM database. 

I'm yet to find the specific reason behind this error.

Holiday travel through India

I've just returned from holidays over the past couple of months. Its been a holiday long awaited and well enjoyed.

I've just returned from India as a first time tourist. I managed to travel the Ragestan region and south through to goa on a death trap on two wheels... Royal Enfield 500. I can't believe those bikes were built in the first place.. India is still mass producing these 1950's mostrocities as the best model of two wheel transport in the country.

the country is a living photograph.

I'm happy to report NO food poisoning AND was not shot a single time by terrorists.

Merry Christmas everyone.

ps: I've just discovered that all 8 CRM 4.0 Accellerators have been released in my absence. This is great news. I'm looking forward to playing with them over the next few days.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Well here it is again... It feels only a month ago I recovered from last new year's frivolities.

Wishing you all the best this Christmas and new year!!!

More Microsoft Dynamisc CRM Accelerators Released

Another CRM Accelerator was released yesterday. 

They are available on CodePlex along with full source code as promised:

Download them now…

CRM Notifications Accelerator

Extended Sales Forecasting Accelerator

Event Management Accelerator

Incedentally, if you're not familiar with these tools, here's a video introduction to CRM Accelerators presented on Microsoft's Channel 9 by Ruben Krippner.

Announcing Release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Accelerators

Ahh… Finally we have a release of 2 of the new CRM Accelerators. 

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the Microsoft CRM team had announced in a live meeting that 5 of the 8 CRM Accelerators were to be released very shortly. Just as I was about to fall off the edge of my seat, I found the release of the following 2 CRM Accelerators as of 30-Oct-2008: 

• CRM Notifications Accelerator
  
• Extended Sales Forecasting Accelerator
  

I guess 2 are better than none.

As a Microsoft Partner you can access these from the Partner Source website:
https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/newsevents/news/MD_CRM_Accelerators 

All installation files, documentation and source codes are freely available and fully supported.

Liberation Day! Steve Ballmer - Sydney - 6 November 2008

A rare event is at hand! Steve Ballmer is coming to Australia.

This is truly one of the rarest opportunities to hear fist hand, the most influential person in the IT industry. 

Together with Gianpaolo Carraro', Senior Director, Microsoft Corporation, and Tim Sneath, Director, Microsoft Corporation, we will be hearing about Microsoft's vision of the future of software development and cloud computing.

This event will be held at Sydney Convention Centre, Darling Harbour. Tickets are available by invitation only. If you don't have one yet, then there may still be a handful available from your favourite user group. On the other hand, if you miss out on Sydney tickets, don't panic. The event will be available on Live Rally. Don't miss out!

Read more here:

CRM Accelerators Due for Release This Week

5  of the 8 Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Accelerators are due to be released within the next few days:

• Analytics
• eService
• Event Management
• Enterprise Search
• CRM Notifications

The remaining 3 will be available by the end of November:

• Sales Methodologies
• Extended Sales Forecasting
• Business Productivity

All accelerators will have multi language compatability and are fully supported my Microsoft. Read more about them at the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog.

I'm sofar very impressed with the Beta and previews. The idea is to fully empower CRM developers to modify and customize these tools to fully suit their needs, so the package on offer will be quite extensive...

• Compiled Installer + full source code
• Installation, setup and usage documentation
• Technical documentation
• Walkthrough and tutorial videos

Upon release, there will be a discussion forum set up for developers to discuss and get help on customizing these tools.

Incidentally, some of these tools are due to be included as the standard package in CRM 5.

More posts on these tools to come shortly.