The connection string properties are the various options that can be used to establish a
connection. This section provides a complete list of the options you can configure in the connection
string for this provider. Click the links for further details.
For more information on establishing a connection, see
Basic Tab.
Authentication
| Property | Description |
| AuthScheme | The authentication scheme used. Accepted
entries are Auto,OAuth,NTLM,Kerberos. |
| URL | The root URL of the organization. For
example, a CRM 4.0 or CRM 2011 URL will resemble
http://MySite/MyOrganization. For CRM Online, the URL will resemble
https://myOrg.crm.dynamics.com/. |
| CRMVersion | The type of Dynamics CRM server to which
you are connecting. Accepted entries are
CRM2011+, CRMOnline. |
| InternetFacingDeployment | Whether you are connecting to an Internet
Facing Deployment (IFD) for CRM. |
| User | The SharePoint user account used to
authenticate. |
| Password | The password used to authenticate the user.
|
| OrganizationName | The name of the organization. In Dynamics
CRM 4.0 without IFD, the organization is
specified in the URL; for example, http://website/organizationname. In Dynamics CRM 4.0
with
IFD, this property must be set. In other versions of CRM, this property is optional.
|
| CredentialsLocation | The location of the settings file where
credentials and CRM instance configurations are
saved. |
Azure Authentication
| Property | Description |
| AzureTenant | The Microsoft Online tenant being used to
access data. If not specified, your default
tentant will be used. |
OAuth
| Property | Description |
| InitiateOAuth | Set this property to initiate the process
to obtain or refresh the OAuth access token when
you connect. |
| OAuthClientId | The client ID assigned when you register
your application with an OAuth authorization
server. |
| OAuthClientSecret | The client secret assigned when you
register your application with an OAuth authorization
server. |
| OAuthAccessToken | The access token for connecting using
OAuth. |
| OAuthSettingsLocation | The location of the settings file where
OAuth values are saved when InitiateOAuth is set
to GETANDREFRESH or REFRESH. Alternatively, this can be held in memory by specifying a
value
starting with memory://. |
| CallbackURL | The OAuth callback URL to return to when
authenticating. This value must match the
callback URL you specify in your app settings. |
| ADFSServer | The ADFS Server used for authentication.
|
| OAuthGrantType | The grant type for the OAuth flow. |
| OAuthVerifier | The verifier code returned from the OAuth
authorization URL. |
| OAuthRefreshToken | The OAuth refresh token for the
corresponding OAuth access token. |
| OAuthExpiresIn | The lifetime in seconds of the OAuth
AccessToken. |
| OAuthTokenTimestamp | The Unix epoch timestamp in milliseconds
when the current Access Token was created. |
Kerberos
SSL
| Property | Description |
| SSLServerCert | The certificate to be accepted from the
server when connecting using TLS/SSL. |
Firewall
| Property | Description |
| FirewallType | The protocol used by a proxy-based
firewall. |
| FirewallServer | The name or IP address of a proxy-based
firewall. |
| FirewallPort | The TCP port for a proxy-based firewall.
|
| FirewallUser | The user name to use to authenticate with a
proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallPassword | A password used to authenticate to a
proxy-based firewall. |
Proxy
| Property | Description |
| ProxyAutoDetect | This indicates whether to use the system
proxy settings or not. This takes precedence over
other proxy settings, so you'll need to set ProxyAutoDetect to FALSE in order use custom
proxy settings. |
| ProxyServer | The hostname or IP address of a proxy to
route HTTP traffic through. |
| ProxyPort | The TCP port the ProxyServer proxy is
running on. |
| ProxyAuthScheme | The authentication type to use to
authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxyUser | A user name to be used to authenticate to
the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxyPassword | A password to be used to authenticate to
the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxySSLType | The SSL type to use when connecting to the
ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxyExceptions | A semicolon separated list of destination
hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting
through the ProxyServer . |
Logging
| Property | Description |
| LogModules | Core modules to be included in the log
file. |
Schema
| Property | Description |
| Location | A path to the directory that contains the
schema files defining tables, views, and stored
procedures. |
Miscellaneous
| Property | Description |
| CallerId | The Id of a user to impersonate when
inserting or updating new records. |
| DefaultPrecision | The currency precision that is used for
pricing throughout the system. Valid values are
0-4 and Auto. If the value is Auto, the default value will be retrieved from the
Dynamics
CRM server. |
| IncludeCalculatedColumns | This option controls whether the driver
returns the Calculated Columns defined on a table.
Only applicable for CRM 2015+. |
| MaxRows | Limits the number of rows returned rows
when no aggregation or group by is used in the
query. This helps avoid performance issues at design time. |
| Other | These hidden properties are used only in
specific use cases. |
| Pagesize | The maximum number of results to return per
page from Dynamics CRM. |
| QueryMethod | The method to use when querying data from
Dynamics CRM. In most cases FetchXML will work
with all tables. |
| Readonly | You can use this property to enforce
read-only access to Dynamics CRM from the provider.
|
| SavedQueryFilter | A comma-separated list of filters to use
for displaying Saved Queries as views (ex:
Accounts%,Contacts%). |
| Timeout | The value in seconds until the timeout
error is thrown, canceling the operation. |
| UseDisplayNames | Boolean determining if the display names
for the columns should be used instead of the API
names. |
| UseDisplayTableNames | Boolean determining if the display names
for the table should be used instead of the API
names. |
| UseNameForPicklistValue | Boolean determining if the string value
should be used for picklist field values instead
of integers. |
| UseSimpleNames | Boolean determining if simple names should
be used for tables and columns. |