Sharepoint & Crm

1. Moving to Sysadmin-Central.com

   I will be slowly migrating all of the posts from this site through to https://sysadmin-central.com, once complete I will likely redirect this domain through to that blog. This allows me to centralise all of my work into a single page and hopefully a better user experience for you all. Thank you, Shaun

2. AZ-100/AZ-103 Study Notes

   Hey everyone, I’m currently creating a full study guide to AZ-100 as I prepare to take the exam shortly, this will also apply to the brand new AZ-103 exam which will replace AZ-100 as of May the 1st. Hopefully this will be of use to some of you and if you make your way through … Continue reading AZ-100/AZ-103 Study Notes →

3. Start of a new blog – Sysadmin Central

   I’ve recently started to write for a new blog called ‘Sysadmin Central’ which will contain articles about various subjects I find particularly interesting. I plan to keep this one running as long as possible and hope to add more to it as I cover more elements of either SharePoint or CRM. But for now, please … Continue reading Start of a new blog – Sysadmin Central →

4. SharePoint 2013 – How to Mass-Import Managed Metadata

   It can be a pain trying to create a new Managed Metadata set in SharePoint. But luckily it can be done fairly easily with a bit of know-how. Before we start, make your way to the Term Store management page which can be found by doing the following – Go to Site Settings on any … Continue reading SharePoint 2013 – How to Mass-Import Managed Metadata →

5. SharePoint 2013: How to Fix Central Administration Taking Forever to Load

   For quite some time now it would take several minutes for our Central Admin to load up once opened, I decided to spend a bit of time and see what I could find to improve it. Turned out the fix was very simple if a tad confusing as it was supposedly fixed during a cumulative … Continue reading SharePoint 2013: How to Fix Central Administration Taking Forever to Load →

6. How to Create a Dynamics CRM Solution – Emailing Individual Team Members in CRM

   This is going to be a rather complex technical article covering how to create the custom workflow step required to email all individual users in a team. This is useful for support desks or situations where you can’t or don’t want to directly email the team. I’ll try my best to simplify this topic enough … Continue reading How to Create a Dynamics CRM Solution – Emailing Individual Team Members in CRM →

7. SharePoint 2013 – PowerShell Script to Move all Documents Between Libraries

   I recently had a requirement to move all the contents of a document library to another library and anybody that has had the displeasure of having to move files in SharePoint knows what a pain that can be. To make matters worse, due to the specific setup I was dealing with the ‘Content & Structure’ … Continue reading SharePoint 2013 – PowerShell Script to Move all Documents Between Libraries →

8. Dynamics 365 – FetchXML Throwing ‘Invalid XML.’ due to Special Characters

   Today’s just a very short article that will hopefully serve as a reminder to myself and a help to others searching for how to resolve the ‘Invalid XML’ error that is generated by C# plugins and the likes utilising FetchXML for querying CRM data. Main Cause The main cause is simply that you’ve incorrectly formatted … Continue reading Dynamics 365 – FetchXML Throwing ‘Invalid XML.’ due to Special Characters →

9. Dynamics 365 – How to Add a TinyMCE Editor for CRM Emails

   By this point, I think it’s rather evident that Microsoft has little inclination to improve the experience of trying to create an email in CRM, time and again I’ve witnessed users struggling to create a basic email with some simple formatting because the built-in tools just don’t quite cut it. To improve this situation, let’s … Continue reading Dynamics 365 – How to Add a TinyMCE Editor for CRM Emails →

10. SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 – Workflows Failing with ‘Failed to Start’ Error

    We recently updated our SharePoint instance with the latest update and realised that suddenly all of our workflows were starting to throw a ‘Failed to Start’ status, which upon further investigation, it was found that we were seeing the following error in the SharePoint ULS Logs – Type System.CodeDom.CodeBinaryOperatorExpression is not marked as authorized in … Continue reading SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 – Workflows Failing with ‘Failed to Start’ Error →