16 November 2017

Your external IP for LCS 2-Tier access



http://myip.wilke.cc

15 November 2017

Dynamics 365 Unified Operations Platform Update 11 - failed in step 11

Dynamics 365 Unified Operations Platform Update 11 - failed on a sandbox environment in step 14 with the following error:

Start-Process C:\DynamicsTools\7za.exe -ArgumentList "x J:\DeployablePackages\432bcfed-4a5e-4b32-8e50-4aff2033e323\AOSService\Packages\files\dynamicsax-systemhealth-develop.7.0.4679.35176.zip -oJ:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory\SystemHealth -y -mmt" -RedirectStandardOutput C:\DynamicsAX\RunbookExecution-ExecuteParallelRunbook-432bcfed-4a5e-4b32-8e50-4aff2033e323_I0_R0\output\install-AXpackages_11152017093919-dynamicsax-systemhealth-develop.7.0.4679.35176-output.log -RedirectStandardError C:\DynamicsAX\RunbookExecution-ExecuteParallelRunbook-432bcfed-4a5e-4b32-8e50-4aff2033e323_I0_R0\output\install-AXpackages_11152017093919-dynamicsax-systemhealth-develop.7.0.4679.35176-error.log -Wait -WindowStyle Hidden -PassThru
7Zip failed to extract package Bin. At J:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory\InstallationRecords\dynamicsax-framework-bin.7.0.4679.35176\tools\installpackage.ps1:38 char:5
+     throw "$($_.Exception.Message)"
+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7Zip failed to extract package Bin. At J:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory\InstallationRecords\dynamicsax-framework-bin.7.0.4679.35176\tools\dynamicspackagemanagement.psm1:104 char:9
+         throw "7Zip failed to extract package $packageName."
+         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



To solve this issue I navigated to
J:\DeployablePackages\432bcfed-4a5e-4b32-8e50-4aff2033e323\AOSService\Packages\files\ and
J:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory\SystemHealth and changed properties of these folders. Removed the read only flag and clicked on apply. It will ask for admin rights and if you check again the read only flag is still partely there. A resume of the package deployment worked well.


13 November 2017

D365fO | OData - An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host 10054


As soon as you connect to 2 Tier environments SAT or PROD environments you should keep in mind to connect using TLS 1.2. The easiest way to do this is compiling with .Net 4.6 or higher

If you are using the sample service scripts you can just add the following line of code into OAuthHelper.cs


         public static string GetAuthenticationHeader()
        {
            string aadTenant = ClientConfiguration.Default.ActiveDirectoryTenant;
            string aadClientAppId = ClientConfiguration.Default.ActiveDirectoryClientAppId;
            string aadResource = ClientConfiguration.Default.ActiveDirectoryResource;

            AuthenticationContext authenticationContext = new AuthenticationContext(aadTenant);
            AuthenticationResult authenticationResult;

            // TLS 1.2
            System.Net.ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = System.Net.SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;

           
            if (useWebAppAuthentication)
            {
                string aadClientAppSecret = ClientConfiguration.Default.ActiveDirectoryClientAppSecret;
                var creadential = new ClientCredential(aadClientAppId, aadClientAppSecret);
                authenticationResult = authenticationContext.AcquireTokenAsync(aadResource, creadential).Result;
            }
            else
            {
                // OAuth through username and password.
                string username = ClientConfiguration.Default.UserName;
                string password = ClientConfiguration.Default.Password;

                // Get token object
                var userCredential = new UserPasswordCredential(username, password);
                authenticationResult = authenticationContext.AcquireTokenAsync(aadResource, aadClientAppId, userCredential).Result;
            }

            // Create and get JWT token
            return authenticationResult.CreateAuthorizationHeader();


Error Messages:

InnerException {"An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host"} 

ErrorCode 10054
Message "An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host"
Message "Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host."