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CRMLicense.GetDeploymentLicensesEx Method

The GetDeploymentLicensesEX method retrieves all of the software licenses for a deployment. This method includes the ColumnSetXML parameter that allows you to specify which columns are to be retrieved.

Syntax

[Visual Basic .NET]
Public Function GetDeploymentLicensesEx(
  ByVal Caller As CUserAuth,
  ByVal OrganizationId As String,
  ByVal ColumnSetXML As String
) As String
[C#]
public string GetDeploymentLicensesEx(
  CUserAuth  Caller,
  string  OrganizationId,
  string  ColumnSetXML
);
[C++]
public: String* GetDeploymentLicensesEx(
  CUserAuth*  Caller,
  String*  OrganizationId,
  String*  ColumnSetXML
);

Parameters

Caller

Specifies the identity of the caller. To perform this action, the caller must have the prvReadLicense privilege and access rights on the objects to be retrieved. See CUserAuth.

OrganizationId

Specifies the ID of the organization.

ColumnSetXML

Specifies an XML string describing the set of columns to be retrieved. Passing an empty string or null returns all columns (Nothing or "" in VB .NET). You can find the valid column names in license.xsd. See also ColumnSetXML Schema.

Return Value

Returns a String type that specifies the XML data containing the software license information. The fields that are returned depend on what fields are specified in the ColumnSetXML parameter. This XML string is in the format

<licenses> + license1..N + </licenses>

where the XML schema for each license is described by license.xsd.

Remarks

The XML string returned from this method may contain multiple objects. If no objects are returned the method simply returns an XML document for the object type with no data.

The XML string returned from this method does not contain elements for fields where the value is null or contains empty strings. This improves performance by not sending more XML data than is necessary from the server to the client.

If there is an error, SOAP throws an exception and the error message is reported in System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException.Detail.OuterXml.

All IDs passed to the platform are GUIDs wrapped in braces. For example: {6522D89A-A752-4455-A2B0-51494C6957C3}

Example

[C#]
// strServer should be set with the name of the platform Web server
string strServer = "myservername";

// virtualDirectory should be set with the name of the Microsoft CRM
// virtual directory on the platform Web server
string virtualDirectory = "mscrmservices";
string strDir = "https://" + strServer + "/" + virtualDirectory + "/";

// BizUser proxy object
Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Proxy.BizUser bizUser = new Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Proxy.BizUser ();
bizUser.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
bizUser.Url = strDir + "BizUser.srf";

// CRMLicense proxy object
Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Proxy.CRMLicense license = new Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Proxy.CRMLicense();
license.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
license.Url = strDir + "CRMLicense.srf";

string strErrorMsg = "";

// Valid organization ID
string strOrgId = "{3BECB6A6-0DD8-4061-98D9-0B9E897C5027}" ;
string strLicenseXml = "";
try
{
   Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Proxy.CUserAuth userAuth = bizUser.WhoAmI();

   // Now retrieve license XML data
   strLicenseXml = license.GetDeploymentLicensesEx (userAuth, strOrgId, "");
}
catch (System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException err)
{
   // Process the platform error here
   strErrorMsg = ("ErrorMessage: " + err.Message + " " + err.Detail.OuterXml + " Source: " + err.Source );
}
catch (Exception err)
{
   // Process other errors here
   strErrorMsg = ("ErrorMessage: " + err.Message );
}

Requirements

Namespace: Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Proxy

Assembly: Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Proxy.dll

See Also

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