From the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Blogs: Cryptography and the CRM SDK; Social profiles; Managing settings; Case from email

In this week's Microsoft Dynamics CRM blog roundup:

• Resolving Cryptography Issues with the Dynamics CRM SDK in Azure Web Apps;
• View, Block, or Deactivate A Social Profile in Dynamics CRM 2015;
• A Case of Inspiration: Dealing with Settings in an Outsourced Environment;
• Convert to Case: Displaying Email Contents

Resolving Cryptography Issues with the Dynamics CRM SDK in Azure Web Apps

On the Magnetism blog, Jared Johnson wrote that when you try to run applications that use the Dynamics CRM SDK in Azure Web Apps, you might get exception when the app is trying to connect to CRM that looks like this:

ERROR: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: The data protection operation was unsuccessful. This may have been caused by not having the user profile loaded for the current thread's user context, which may be the case when the thread is impersonating.

Johnson writes that the reason is because of the DataProtectionScope of the cryptography being used is set to CurrentUser, and by default Azure WebApps is configured to not load user profile.

But even though you can't access IIS in Azure WebApps to configure this setting the way you can in a regular web server, you still configure this. You can find out how here.

View, Block, or Deactivate A Social Profile in Dynamics CRM 2015

On his Dynamics CRM Post Blog, Abhishek Dhoriya explained how to ...