Microsoft CRM - Error 5892 and 5897

I'm running Microsoft CRM 1.2. One server is handling the SQL and web service duties and another machine is my AD and Exchange server.

On my AD/Exchange server, i started getting tons of errors in my Event Viewer, even though i wasn't really noticing any problems with the system.

Event ID 5892 in the Application Log was from the CrmExchangeQueueService and said "The message <message subject> failed to deliver to all servers" , where <message subject> looked like real subjects of actual emails that would be in my system.

Event ID 5897 in the Application Log was also from CrmExchangeQueueService and said "An HTTP status of '401 - Access Denied' occurred while attempting to deliver a message. Please check the URL in the registry. Message subject: <message subject> URL: 'http://myservername//MSCRMServices/CRMEmail.srf'' "

For me, it turns out it was an easy fix. The password had expired on the account that was running the "Microsoft CRM Exchange Queue Service" on my Active Directory / Exchange server. Once i put in the new password here and restarted the service, i was good to go.

Remote online backup service

I've been looking for an affordable, simple online backup solution for my Microsoft Dynamics GP (formerly Great Plains) clients. Something that can backup SQL databases as well as your typical Office docs - Word, Excel, PDF, etc. I've experienced too many situations where people have lost critical accounting data. My moto is "You can never have too many backups!"

So in my search, i've started using an online backup service called Dr. Backup . I really hate using tape drives so this is part of my 2-stage backup plan. I use an external USB hard drive for my typical daily full backups and then i'm using the online backup program to grab just the critical, frequently changing data and store it offsite via the Internet. So if my office burns to the ground, i'll have my critical data safely stored offsite. Best part is this is all automatic - i don't have to swap tapes or remember to burn DVD's anymore. Nice.

The interface is much like your typical backup software - you select a schedule, full/incremental/differential backup type, etc. It'll send you an email notification at the end of each job so you know if it was successful or not.

When using this in conjunction with a backup tool like NTBackup (part of Windows Server or Small Business Server), make sure you set the "backup type" of your NTBackup job to a "copy" type, rather than "normal" backup type. This way the NTBackup will not reset the archive flag. The online backup software will need to see the archive flag. There is a command-line parameter for NTbackup - "/m" where you can specify this. Check the help on ntbackup.exe for details.

You can buy the service in different sizes, from 1 GB to 50 GB. That is the compressed size. It compresses the data prior to uploading it. The compression was good on my SQL backups (Great Plains, Sharepoint and Microsoft CRM). I got about 80% compression on the SQL BAK files.

You can get a free trial for 30 days. That's really the best way to check it out and see if it will meet your needs. So head on over to the Dr.Backup Remote Online Backup website and get started. You can use my "Referred by" code of "Triton" to get a bonus 300 MB in your account.