MSCRM Workflow Stopping, IFD cannot login, Async Service Crashing

Published on 14 May 2008 • Estimated reading time: 1 minutes

Eek, my first post in 50 days. I have been very busy on a new business venture—it’s very exciting from an offering and technology perspective. So lots of long nights with not enough time to blog. I will be posting a huge multipart blog on the experiences of that in the near future. Add to that finding out I’ll be a parent in Jan ’09—it’s been extra hectic.

Anyway, on to my new favorite issue of MSCRM 4.0: the async service crashing. Should it crash, it takes down lots of features, to name a few big ones:

• Imports
• Data duplication
• Workflows
• Logging into an IFD deployment via the forms login

Well, this can occur if you’ve added a new deployment to your MSCRM deployment that contained workflows running. These rogue workflows crash async with a lovely message in the event log: “The entity with ObjectTypeCode = 0 was not found in the MetadataCache.” Well, Microsoft has released a hotfix for this issue, available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950680/en-us.