Connection to Dynamics Server

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Posted on by Jay2014

Hello,

I want to to connect to the Dynamics Server so that i can create a Plugin. I am new to this and i am not sure if i set up my Server right to start with as i am doing this at home. I can connect and complete the first steps as shown below but as soon i select the 'Organisation' from the Pick list, the window closes and disappears so i am not able to select the 'Solution'. Any ideas why the window disappears?

- I do have solutions in the organisation and i able to see them both (managed and un-maged) which work fine.

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RE: Connection to Dynamics Server

I tried to create a new Org and i was getting an error which led me to re-install Dynamics. After the re-install i managed to set up the connection. Thank you both !
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RE: Connection to Dynamics Server

Thank you both for the help ,my problem is that when i select the Organisation, the window closes and i am not able to select a Solution from the 'Solution Name' pick lick. Any idea why i can't complete the process ?

Yes Bruno its the same machine - (are you developing on the same machine that is hosting CRM?)
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Mithilesh Kumar 10,045 on at

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RE: Connection to Dynamics Server

Hi Jay,

You will need to have the Discovery Service of your Organizations.

You can get that from Settings >> Customizations >> Developers Resource

Once you get your Discovery Service, you can connect as shown below

Hope that helps

Thanks
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Bruno Lucas 5,421 on at

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Hi Jay

the endpoint was just to see if it was up and running because the tool will try to contact that.

under crm discovery name you just enter "localhost" or the domain of the crm url

(are you developing on the same machine that is hosting CRM?)

the port goes under port like on the image below

select http and check "use default credentials" if you are on a machine with login access to the target crm
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Thanks Bruno, when i go to Settings > Customisations > click on the Discovery Service (http://{server}/XRMServices/2011/Discovery.svc) the page fails but if i add local host and the port number http://localhost:85/{server}/XRMServices/2011/Discovery.svc it works.

Is the port number the one that is causing the failure ? how can i get rid of it ? Even when i access the CRM webpage my url starts with the PortNumber [http://localhost:85 / Servername /main.aspx#].
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Bruno Lucas 5,421 on at

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considering you have crm 2011, and you installed the toolkit from there to connect to a crm 2011 server, try to use the real url rather than the localhost. it is usually the name of the server. can you access the endpoint from your machine?

http://{server}/XRMServices/2011/Discovery.svc
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SDK is 2011 and VS 2010. I am doing the connection within Visual Studio as illustrated by the first two steps of this article http://mscrmshop.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/step-by-step-plugin-tutorial-using.html
Bruno Lucas 5,421 on at

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RE: Connection to Dynamics Server

That looks like an old version of the plugin registration tool

which version of CRM are you trying to connect to.

if you are trying to access a crm 2015 you will need to get the latest plugin Registration tool under the 2015 sdk