söndag 24 februari 2013

Powershell on ifd server

Configuring Internet Facing Deployment is no easy task by itself and when you're done, well the CRM is up and running at least, it's easy to miss some of the settings that's needed.

This might not be the case for everyone doing this but it certainly was to me. I had been struggling with the ADFS and IFD for some time that it started to be something of a blurr what I had been changing and what was untouched. Anyway, the CRM was up, the IFD was working, everyone's happy.

What happened next was that the disk was getting full on the server and I noticed I had forgotten to turn off the trace. Since this can be done either by the registry or by changing the database with powershell I started by looking at the registry and no keys were set there, moving along to the database using powershell.

The good-ole' "Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.Crm.Powershell" gave me no headaches, that was about to change though. When I entered "Get-CrmSetting TraceSettings" the following message returned:

Get-CrmSetting : The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel.
At line:1 char:15
+ Get-CrmSetting <<<<  TraceSettings
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-CrmSetting], WebException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Net.WebException,Microsoft.Crm.PowerShell.GetCrmSettingCmdlet
 This made me a bit confused since everything else was working fine. A bit of searching lead me to looking at the Deployment manager and what was set there.























This is what the Web Address settings looked like and the IFD was pointing at adfs.domain.com. The solution to my problem was just to change the web address to that of the IFD and bingo, powershell was happy again. To turn off the tracing of the CRM server is a different story, that part lives it's own life.

Rickard Norström
Developer at CRM-Konsulterna
www.crmkonsulterna.se