This utility is mostly used by organizations that run CRM Professional, since the Exchange email server can be located on a different server than the CRM Server. If you have not installed the SMTP mail service on the CRM Server and you do not wish it to perform outbound email functionality, you would use this utility to reconfigure CRM to utilize an existing SMTP server, such as Exchange.
For more information about this process, please review the following KnowledgeBase article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906471
Here is a screen shot of the user interface:
You will need to have your CRM Installation CD1 on hand before running CRM SMTPSettings because it requires a utility found on the CD ( Microsoft.CRM.Tools.EncryptPwd.exe ) to operate.
CRM StartStop can be found in the Premium Content section on my company web site. Registration is required but the utility is free.
Occasionally, I need to stop all of the CRM services ( and web site ) so I can perform some type of update. I got tired of doing this manually, and as an off-shoot of another project, I created a small utility that will start and stop the following CRM-related services:
The CRM Web Site
MSCRMBulkMailService
MSCRMDeletionService
MSCRMWorkflowService
MSCRMFaxRouterService
MSCRMExRouterService
CRM StartStop can be found in the Premium Content section on my company web site. Registration is required but the utility is free.
I do a lot of server-based development with CRM and as a result, I am constantly turning on ( and off ) CRM diagnostic tracing to see what is happening behind the scenes.
If you would like to more about CRM's tracing feature, please review:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907490
A few months ago, I wrote ( and later rewrote ) a utility that would make the registry changes for me. This speeds up the process and I don't have to worry about introducing an invalid setting into the tracing engine.
CRM Tracer will work with both the CRM Server and CRM Client.
Here is a screen shot of the interface:
CRM Tracer can be found in the Premium Content section on my company web site. Registration is required but the utility is free.
Greetings everyone.
Well, I finally got around to finishing up the update to my company web site: CRM Accelerators
It has been quite an adventure. As with most web sites, you can't see most of what I did. I actually find it a bit irritating that I spent so much time on something that is really nothing more than 5-6 web pages.
As I mentioned in a previous article, I attempted to utilize some of Microsoft's new AJAX technology on the site to improve the user experience. It worked fine until I upgraded to from the Atlas CTP to the beta of Microsoft AJAX. It seems that godaddy.com doesn't like the way they built the AJAX extensions.
Godaddy runs ASP.NET sites in a "modified medium" level of security and sometimes this causes issues with components who expect to have more wide-ranging control of their environment, or which make calls to other components that violate predefined ASP.NET security rules.
Anyway, after fooling around with it for half a day, I exceeded my maximum "waste of my time" counter and I just ripped all of the AJAX crap off the site and with with standard ASP.NET. It will get fixed sooner or later and I'll reapply the technology again. It's not that hard and probably won't take me more than a couple of hours to reinsert the AJAX controls.
This week I'll also be releasing three free CRM-related utilities, which can be downloaded from the new site. Registration will be required to access the Premium Content area, but that's about it.
Later, Mitch
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