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I work for Microsoft now

David Vidmar — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:00:27 GMT

It’s been quiet around here and for a good reason. As I hinted before there has been many changes in my life recently. In same week I became father for second time (father of three boys now, twins and a new baby!), finally finished my engineer’s degree and finally, I joined the ranks of best company in the world to work for – Microsoft.

I’ll be working as I consultant for Biztalk Server and Forefront Identity Manager and from time to time a Dynamics CRM consultant.

So, what can you expect? Occasional dry stints, lots of BTS and FIM links, Windows Phone 7, Azure and Windows 8 and other cool Microsoft stuff.

If you are fellow Microsoftie, please look me up and drop me a note – let’s connect!

Scribe MVP

David Vidmar — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:19:29 GMT

I have worked with Scribe Insight integration tool a lot lately and I’m proud to announce that great team at Scribesoft recognized me as one of the experts and so I joined their Scribe MVP team.

Thank you Scribesoft and I look forward to more great Scribe integrations!

Error when connection to Dynamics CRM [Scribe]

David Vidmar — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:52:39 GMT

When trying to connect to Dynamics CRM server from Scribe you often get an error.

First thing to check is the real error. You do that by expanding error box by clicking “Details” (1).

Next, list through errors with “Next” (2), first one will always (?) be useless and just showing “ADP”.

The real error is then shown.

If you run Scribe on Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 or later with UAC enabled, you will get “Requested access is not allowed”. If you read complete error, you will notice it is not CRM related at all. Scribe is trying to write current connection info to registry in order to help you next time you will try to connect to CRM.

Resolution is very simple, but I still fall for this, so that is why I'm writing it down:

Run Scribe Workbench and Scribe Console with elevated privileges – right click and select “Run as Administrator”!

Scribe 7.0.2 [Scribe]

David Vidmar — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:38:00 GMT

Scribesoft just release an update version of it’s Scribe product with version number 7.0.2. This update fixes several bugs and I’m glad to point out that is also fixes an issue we bumped into, when OLE DB adapter was having problems with SQL tables and views that had spaces in the name (Dynamics NAV tables).

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Neat query publisher trick for grouping change set rows [Scribe]

David Vidmar — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:27:23 GMT

Here is a neat trick I just came up with when creating Scribe integration for a customer…

I’m creating a integration where my source is query publisher that is calling T-SQL stored procedure. The destination is some web service, but the web service owner wasn’t very pleased when the integration ran for the first time and web service got called many times and with Scribe’s 8 message processors, more that one simultaneous call was made.

Here is the trick…

I added dummy field with constant value to to query publisher’s query and then specified that I want to group by that column in query publisher settings. But with just a bit more effort I can also specify maximum group size and I speed up integration tremendously! Just use row_number() function and divide the number to group rows.

In the example below, I group 25 rows in one message that gets send to scribe queue.

Here is where you specify grouping. Create grouping node, and drag all fields except group number to <RepeatingElement>.

Check queue for messages and you are done. Beware that the schema of XML message will change and you will have to correct/recreate the DTS mappings.