Recovering from a Dynamics CRM 2011 Server failure

In this recipe, we will see how to recover from a Dynamics CRM 2011 Server failure.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps to recover from a Dynamics CRM 2011 Server failure:

  1. In the case of a Full Server machine crash or failure, we might need to reinstall the operating environment of the server machine. Install the Windows Server version on the server, and join the machine to the same active directory where SQL Server for Dynamics CRM 2011 is already linked.
  2. Install Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Server by following the Installing Dynamics CRM Server recipe from Chapter 1, Installing Dynamics CRM 2011. During the installation, select Connect to, and if necessary, upgrade an existing deployment from the Specify Deployment Options page.
  3. Apply the appropriate update rollups if they were installed before failure.
  4. Once the installation is complete, replace the ISV.config and web.config files from their backups in case changes were made in these files from their default settings.
  5. Restore the registry keys from the backups in case changes were made in the registry from their default settings.
  6. In case the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Connector for Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services component was also installed in the machine that failed, this component will have to be reinstalled.

How it works…

This recipe completes the restoration of Dynamic CRM 2011 Server in the case of a complete server failure. In the case of only a Dynamics CRM 2011 website failure, we only need to restore ISV.Config and web.config other than restoring the registry keys and importing and publishing any custom solution component.

In the case of a multiserver deployment, where different server roles are deployed separately, if any server machine encounters failure, upon recovery of that server we might need to repair Dynamics CRM 2011 on other servers as well.

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