Active Directory password reset via CRM 2011

A couple of months ago, my colleague Robert Shurtleff (@rgsiii) came to me with an interesting idea about a CRM add on to change AD passwords. After a few emails back and forth thrashing out the design, it was time to make it actually work. In this post, I am going to provide some of the details of a solution to enable a user to change his or her AD password from within CRM.

CRM 2011 Ribbon Workbench - Getting guids from selected records in the grid

For those who need to make changes to the crm 2011 ribbon, I strongly suggest that you run, not walk, and download the ribbon workbench tool from Develop1. It is so far the best utility to make painless modifications to the CRM ribbon, and also has decent write ups and articles to cover most of your needs. In this post, I will walk though a setup which grabs the selected guids from a grid view, using a button created on the entity main page.