CRM 2016 Update Profile Picture

Information on this seems to be fairly limited at the moment, but this is cool feature.

1. Double click your image at the top right of the CRM 2016 screen.

 2. Select Choose File

 3. Pick your picture and click open

4. Click OK

Your profile picture should now be updated!

Unable to add user to CRM 2016

Recently I encountered an issue where I couldn't add a user as CRM determined that the user ID already existed in the organisation, however I could see no evidence of this.

After a quick search I found this article

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ukdynsupport/2009/07/16/authentication-when-you-are-adding-a-new-user-to-crm-or-a-user-to-a-new-organization-in-crm/

So the key was the user record was in the MSCRM_CONFIG database still, as we had done a restore and org import on an earlier backup.

To identify this was actually the cause I had to find the SID for the user, without access to the AD tools, I found an article on using powershell, the following commands got me the SID

PS> $objUser = New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount("{domain name}")
PS> $strSID = $objUser.Translate([System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier])
PS> $strSID.Value
S-1-5-21-1004336348-1715567821-725345543-40705

With the returned SID I could identify the record

 SELECT * FROM SystemUserAuthentication WHERE AuthInfo LIKE '%S-1-5-21-1004336348-1715567821-725345543-40705'

I decided to update the record SID to one that will never exist rather than delete, as there could be a spider web of relationships that get really stuffed up.

 

UPDATE SystemUserAuthentication

SET AuthInfo = 'W:S-1-5-21-1004336348-1715567822-725345543-40705'

WHERE Id = 'CF775160-6BE6-E511-80CF-005056BD0631'

After this update I was able to create the user record.