Free AD tool to facilitate creation of test CRM environment

 

When a new CRM project is initiated, one of the most frequent task involved is to setup a dev and/or test environment, either for upgrade, extend or a new deployment.  Setting up a proper test environment, sometimes involves re-creation of AD user objects, so we can restore existing CRM database to perform testing with it in the dev or test environment. I have been using this little free tool (AD manager plus) to help with the bulk creation of AD users without using any script file.

http://www.manageengine.com/products/ad-manager/download-free.html 

Hope it help you too!

Unable to connect to CRMOnline from Developer Toolkit

 

Today, I have been working with the CRM2011 Developer Toolkit on a new machine and getting problems to connect to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online.  When using “orgname.crm5.dynamics.com” port 443 and https to connect, I am getting “There is an error in XML Document(5, 5)”.  Found this issue related to LiveDevice.xml cache on the local machine, deleted the file from c:\Users\{your user name}\LiveDeviceID\ resolved the connectivity issue!