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Today I had a bit of fun at a client where we did an insanely quick-and-dirty (totally and absolutely unrecommended) installation of CRM 2011. The tech installing CRM found that SharePoint was using port 80 on the same server and decided to run CRM on port 8500. Yesterday I did a bit of a cleanup of the installation which for me (and my non-IT-pro ways) meant installing Update Rollup 3 and doing a reboot. Today I opened up the server to take a peek at what was going on and found that the webservice wasn’t running and I couldn’t reach my organizations.

Starting up the webservice resulted in an “Error 0×80070020“
The tech article mentioned that it had to do with the port being in use so I did a netstat -aon | find “:8500″ to see which process was running on that port. After adding PID to the task manager processes view I saw that it was the Microsoft.CrmUnzipService.
Stopping the unzip service service from the service management console and starting the CRM website worked just fine… Obviously though the CRM unzip service now didn’t want to start
My suspicions that the unzipservice was running on port 8500, using a VM with the default installation proved me right… So the next step was changing the listening port/binding on the CRM server which now can be done through the IIS service manager only.
So lesson learned don’t run CRM (or anything else) on port 8500 if the zip service runs on the same server.

[Updated: Added link to the dll in the post]
Oh dear, I never thought this would happen to me but; once again I find myself using Windows XP at a customer site. A huge dissapointment as some organizations are just too big to move on quickly. Luckily there’s a big x year program set up to verify that all apps will work on Windows 7 and there’s a great pilot going on that you as an external employee cannot enter. Just another day in the live of a consultant.

Now using XP is something that will take some getting used to again but one of the things that has been bothering me alot when I started this gig is that most of my CRM 2011 related tools weren’t working. Even worse: the CRM 2011 CRM developer toolkit which is included in the CRM 2011 SDK (from v 5.0.5) wouldn’t work either. This is the error I got:

“Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35′ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35′ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.”