CRM2013 Release Preview Guide

September, Just released!
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CRM2011 Dashboard: You do not have enough privileges to access CRM object or perform requested operation

Issue:
CRM2011 Dashboard showing "You do not have enough privileges to access the Microsoft Dynamics CRM object or perform the requested operation. For more information contact your Microsoft Dynamics CRM administrator"

1. Try to double check, is the user's access mode is read write and license type is full.
2. If i individual chart, make sure that individual charts is share to user
3. Check on the permission of the entity, view and dashboard as well.

CRM2011 SDK 5.0.16 released

Microsoft just released the new SDK file version 5.0.16
A new topic included to help us prepare for new changes: What's changing in the next major release

CRM2011 Plugin Registration Tool Throw Generic SQL error

I hit this error while trying to register a plugin assembly in CRM 2011.
Error message is very generic :)

Generic SQL error.

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Microsoft Dynamics CRM has experienced an error. Reference number for administrators or support

The root cause of this error is database log file is running out of disk space, is full!
Just do a simple housekeeping will solve the issue.

Hope this help. Happy CRM'ing

Error: Failed to get priv user group information

Today, my CRM2011 server was down and throwing the following error message:

To solve this, just restart CRM services.

Failed to get priv user group information. k = 71157794-44a2-4dec-9476-90a76d05d119 privUserGroupId: 1ab26bc8-7874-4a79-8230-b236bff78f16, localSystemAdGuid: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000, Exception: Microsoft.Crm.CrmSecurityException: Could not find GUID for : SEAASTPASPIRE08$ with SearchFilter: samAccountName ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {080D0D78-F421-11D0-A36E-00C04FB950DC} failed due to the following error: 800703fa Illegal operation attempted on a registry key that has been marked for deletion. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800703FA). at System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.DirectoryEntryManager..ctor(DirectoryContext context) at System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain.GetDomain(DirectoryContext context) at Microsoft.Crm.SecurityUtils.GetGuid(String searchItem, String searchFilter, String searchItemLogInfo, Boolean exceptionIfNotfound) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Microsoft.Crm.SecurityUtils.GetGuid(String searchItem, String searchFilter, String searchItemLogInfo, Boolean exceptionIfNotfound) at Microsoft.Crm.SecurityUtils.GetLocalSystemGuid() at Microsoft.Crm.Caching.OrganizationSettingsCacheLoader.LoadCacheData(Guid key, ExecutionContext context).