Thursday, April 06, 2006

CRM Mobile 3.0 Gotcha

Just starting on the CRM Mobile component install and one thing to remember:

Receive a “Setup could not open a session to the instance of SQL Server” warning when installing
This occurs if you are installing a device on a non-production Microsoft CRM server. Microsoft CRM Mobile does not support MSDN license keys. The Microsoft CRM server must be in production before you install Microsoft CRM Mobile.

Guess those with MSDN testing keys are out of luck. Pretty bad in my opinion. How ya going to test a deployment? Well I guess you better go with the 90 day CRM keys instead. Just one gotcha to remember.

OK so I never read the readme but this time I did. CRM is one of those apps that you better read everything 3X over before you even think about starting to install.