Dynamics CRM Discovery and Web Service URLs

Dynamics CRM Discovery and Web Service URL’s to use, based on the Developer Resources Page in CRM.

Here is the information that you need:

For CRM Online customers:

The following URLs should be used to access the discovery service (use the appropriate URL for your location):

Provider: Microsoft Office 365
https://disco.crm.dynamics.com/XRMServices/2011/Discovery.svc (North America)
https://disco.crm4.dynamics.com/XRMServices/2011/Discovery.svc (EMEA)
https://disco.crm5.dynamics.com/XRMServices/2011/Discovery.svc (APAC)

Provider: Microsoft Account
https://dev.crm.dynamics.com/XRMServices/2011/Discovery.svc (North America)
https://dev.crm4.dynamics.com/XRMServices/2011/Discovery.svc (EMEA)
https://dev.crm5.dynamics.com/XRMServices/2011/Discovery.svc (APAC)

The following URLs should be used to access the Organization service(SOAP endpoint):

https://{Organization Name}.api.crm.dynamics.com/XrmServices/2011/Organization.svc (North America)
https://{Organization Name}.api.crm4.dynamics.com/XrmServices/2011/Organization.svc (EMEA)
https://{Organization Name}.api.crm5.dynamics.com/XrmServices/2011/Organization.svc (APAC)

Where {Organization Name} refers to the Organization that you specify in the URL when accessing the Web application. For example, for Contoso.crm.dynamics.com, the {Organization Name} is Contoso.

The following URLs should be used to access the Organization Data service(OData REST endpoint)

https://{Organization Name}.api.crm.dynamics.com/XrmServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc (North America)
https://{Organization Name}.api.crm4.dynamics.com/XrmServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc (EMEA)
https://{Organization Name}.api.crm5.dynamics.com/XrmServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc (APAC)

For CRM On-premises customers:
http://{server}/XRMServices/2011/Discovery.svc for the Discovery service endpoint
http://{server}/{OrgName}/XRMServices/2011/Organization.svc for the Organization Service endpoint (SOAP)
http://{server}/{OrgName}/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc for the Organization Data Service endpoint (REST)
http://{server}/XRMDeployment/2011/Deployment.svc for the Deployment Service endpoint

47 thoughts on “Dynamics CRM Discovery and Web Service URLs”

Sanuja October 22, 2010 at 9:01 am

Dear Mr Clinton,

I have an issue consuming the CRM webservice (/MSCrmServices/2007/CrmService.asmx).

I could use the ‘Retrieve’ method to get the details of for eg. lead . It works fine for certain tables ( eg: lead , email etc), while throws a ‘Server was unable to process request’ error for certain other ones such as ‘activityparty’ ,’activitypointer’ etc

This code worked well for us :

Guid actGuid = new Guid(“DEAFAAA8-ECCA-DD11-BE84-005056960EF3”);
lead objLead= new lead();
objLead= (lead)service.Retrieve(EntityName.lead.ToString(), actGuid, new AllColumns());
return objLead.lastname;

While this one throws an error :

Guid actGuid = new Guid(“EE7DF408-4233-DF11-B295-005056960EF3”);
activityparty objact = new activityparty();
objact = (activityparty)service.Retrieve(EntityName.activityparty.ToString(), actGuid, new AllColumns());
return objact.partyid.Value.ToString();

Tried updating the web reference. Still the same issue.
Is there any way that some entities are blocked in some way !? Can there be such a chance on the CRM Server?
What is the possible way to resolve this situation?

Any help would be highly appreciated.!

Thanks in advance !

Sanu.

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1. Rhett Clinton Post authorOctober 22, 2010 at 9:22 am
  
  Hi Sanu,
  
  The problem you’re having here is that the activityparty entity is not supported for use with the Retrieve message. Here is the CRM 4 SDK reference for the supported entities and target classes for the Retrieve message. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb959490.aspx
  
  Regards,
  Rhett
  
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Mike February 9, 2011 at 10:32 am

Hi
Do you know which URL to use if trying to connect Scribe Insight to a CRM 2011 Online system?
We are in EMEA and we have not had much luck.
Mike

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1. Rhett Clinton Post authorFebruary 9, 2011 at 11:24 am
  
  Hi Mike, there seems to be an adapter available on March 31 https://openmind.scribesoftware.com/releases/dynamics-crm-adapter-50 but maybe there is an adapter already capable. There is a related forum post here http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/crm/thread/c9874e95-bfbf-4df5-bb82-d4a56d471de6
  
  Cheers,
  Rhett
  
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Hosk March 3, 2011 at 12:29 am

nice article. I am always looking for these urls so it’s good that our put them out there on the internet for us.

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shirpk May 9, 2011 at 6:10 am

Thanks for sharing valuable information.
I want to use MS CRM 2011 web services in my application which is a desktop application and written in .net frame work 3.5, I used 2007 end point and my all existing functionality which was for MS CRM4.0 is working fine.

Now I need to create a solution programmatically and I don’t want to upgrade my code to .net frame work 4.

Problem is when I add organization service reference in my application I am unable to access “createsolutionrequest” class. Is there any work around to create solution from the client application without upgrading code from .net 3.5 to .net 4?

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1. Rhett Clinton Post authorMay 9, 2011 at 10:31 am
  
  i think your alternative is to use Javascript and access the WCF Organization.svc web service and access it this way, you shouldn’t have to upgrade to .NET.
  
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  1. Azmat Shir May 11, 2011 at 1:18 pm
    
    Actually limited functionality can accessed using javascript by using REST endpoint, I want to use “ImportSolutionRequest” and REST endpoint only support create, update and delete message .
  2. Rhett Clinton Post authorMay 12, 2011 at 1:38 pm
    
    Yes that is correct, but you can use the WCF endpoint for calling into the Organization.svc service to achieve what you need from JavaScript instead.
    
    Cheers,
    Rhett
Azmat Shir May 13, 2011 at 7:55 am

I used Organization.svc WCF by adding service reference in .Net3.5 but “ImportSolutionRequest” class is not available, this class is only available when we add SDK assemblies references in .Net4 project. My problem is I don’t want to upgrade my code from .Net3.5 to .NET 4.

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Rick Gipson June 16, 2011 at 10:43 pm

What would cause a CRM 2011 On-Premise OrganizationData.svc to not be found?

Both the http://{servername}:5555/{OrgName}/XRMServices/2011/Organization.svc and the http://{servername}:5555/{OrgName}/XRMServices/2011/Discovery.svc respond, but http://{servername}:5555/{OrgName}/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc yields a 404 Page Not Found? I can see the OrganizationData.svc file in that folder in IIS,so I know it is there physically. Any thoughts?

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1. Rhett Clinton Post authorJune 16, 2011 at 11:13 pm
  
  Try my OData Query Designer and see if you can execute OData queries with that https://bingsoft.wordpress.com/category/crm-2011-odata-query-designer/
  
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  1. Rick Gipson June 17, 2011 at 2:02 pm
    
    I loaded the OData Query Designer, but when it loads it generates this error:
    
    [Async_ExceptionOccurred]
    Arguments:
    Debugging resource strings are unavailable. Often the key and arguments provide sufficient information to diagnose the problem. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=106663&Version=4.0.60531.0&File=System.dll&Key=Async_ExceptionOccurred
    
    at System.ComponentModel.AsyncCompletedEventArgs.RaiseExceptionIfNecessary()
    at CRM.Tools.ODataQueryDesigner.CrmSdk.ExecuteCompletedEventArgs.get_Result()
    at CRM.Tools.ODataQueryDesigner.Readers.MetadataReader.ExecuteRetrieveEntities_ExecuteCompleted(Object sender, ExecuteCompletedEventArgs response)
    at CRM.Tools.ODataQueryDesigner.CrmSdk.OrganizationServiceClient.OnExecuteCompleted(Object state)
  2. Rhett Clinton Post authorJune 17, 2011 at 2:13 pm
    
    Make sure you access CRM with the URL address that was used to install CRM as the tool uses Xrm.Page.context.getServerUrl() and if this is different from what you use then you will get a cross domain security error.
    
    Cheers, Rhett
  3. Rick Gipson June 17, 2011 at 2:17 pm
    
    If it was a url issue, wouldn’t it impact Discovery.svc and Organizations.svc as well?
  4. Rick Gipson June 17, 2011 at 2:24 pm
    
    Confirmed URL used during setup — yields the same error.
  5. Rick Gipson June 20, 2011 at 2:23 pm
    
    Any other suggestions to resolve the non-answering OrganizationData.svc?
    
    Rick
  6. Rhett Clinton Post authorJune 20, 2011 at 10:25 pm
    
    Hi Rick, I remember seeing something like this around 6 months ago on the forums but I cannot seem to find the post.
    
    It could be an IIS issue like Kernel mode being set under windows authentication or similar but I’ll have another look and see if I can find the solution for you.
    
    Cheers, Rhett
  7. Rhett Clinton Post authorJune 20, 2011 at 10:59 pm
    
    Here are a few things to check out. What authentication method are you using?
    
    http://scottr27.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/crm-2011request-error-in-the-organizationdata-svc/
    
    http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en/crm/thread/71365831-c968-43fb-ab6f-8e9ac3534ebd
    
    I think this item is interesting, not the exact issue but maybe worth uninstalling/installing the URL rewrite module as shown here http://blog.ringelbergs.nl/blog/?p=1229
    
    Cheers,
    Rhett
  8. Rick Gipson June 21, 2011 at 2:26 pm
    
    Thanks for all the help. I really appreciate it… I cannot seem to find any help online to resolve this issue.
    
    – The http://scottr27.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/crm-2011request-error-in-the-organizationdata-svc/ issue does not apply as I am using the {OrgName} in my url reference
    
    – The http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en/crm/thread/71365831-c968-43fb-ab6f-8e9ac3534ebd issue does not apply as I’m not using a self-signed certificate — not using SSL certificate at all and not IFD yet.
    
    – The http://blog.ringelbergs.nl/blog/?p=1229 issue does not apply as the OrganizationData.svc does not use the UrlRewrite features of IIS. I did check the UrlRewrite feature for the CRM web and it had the FederationMetadataRule, ClientGlobalContextRule and the WebResourcesRule. If the OrganizationData.svc needed a rule in the UrlRewrite, wouldn’t the Discovery.svc and Organization.svc also need to be there? Those two are working fine without a UrlRewrite Rule.
    
    Thanks again and if you have any other ideas — please let me know.
    
    Rick
  9. Rhett Clinton Post authorJune 21, 2011 at 3:42 pm
    
    I think you might get a result if you turn tracing on for CRM and try to access the address. It’s worth a try.
  10. Rick Gipson June 21, 2011 at 4:23 pm
    
    Thanks Rhett,
    
    I turned on CRM Tracing and here is what was reported:
    >MapOrgEngine: Retreived the OrgId[{AA965ECA-3D3A-411E-8261-CCCF566B5B82}] for URL[http://343332-db2.employbridge.net:5555/CRMDEV/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc].[2011-06-21 10:49:17.162]
    
    >MapOrgEngine: Unable to retrieve the OrgId for URL[http://343332-db2.employbridge.net:5555/CRMDEV/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc].[2011-06-21 10:49:17.162]
    
    >AUTH: Request [GET http://343332-db2.employbridge.net:5555/CRMDEV/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc%5D from [192.168.100.175] entered Authentication Pipeline.[2011-06-21 10:49:17.162]
    
    >AUTH: AuthenticationProvider [Microsoft.Crm.Authentication.PassThroughAuthenticationProvider] will be attempted.[2011-06-21 10:49:17.162]
    
    AUTH: AuthenticationProvider [Microsoft.Crm.Authentication.PassThroughAuthenticationProvider] handled request [http://343332-db2.employbridge.net:5555/CRMDEV/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc] from [192.168.100.175].[2011-06-21 10:49:17.162]
    
    >FileExists ~/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc returning True.[2011-06-21 10:49:17.162]
    
    >GetFileHash(/CRMDEV/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc, System.Collections.ArrayList) called.[2011-06-21 10:49:17.209]
    
    >Sdk Service Throttle.SdkMaxConcurrentCalls:64 [2011-06-21 10:49:17.209]
    >Sdk Service Throttle.MaxConcurrentInstances:464 [2011-06-21 10:49:17.224]
    >Sdk Service Throttle.MaxConcurrentSessions:400 [2011-06-21 10:49:17.240]
    
    >Failed to lookup a channel to receive an incoming message. Either the endpoint or the SOAP action was not found. [2011-06-21 10:49:17.271]
    
    >System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException: There was no channel actively listening at ‘http://343332-db2.txdal01.employbridge.net:5555/CRMDEV/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc’. This is often caused by an incorrect address URI. Ensure that the address to which the message is sent matches an address on which a service is listening. [2011-06-21 10:49:17.271]
    > at System.ServiceModel.Activation.HostedHttpTransportManager.HttpContextReceived(HostedHttpRequestAsyncResult result)
    > at System.ServiceModel.Activation.HostedHttpRequestAsyncResult.HandleRequest()
    > at System.ServiceModel.Activation.HostedHttpRequestAsyncResult.BeginRequest()
    > at System.Runtime.AsyncResult.End[TAsyncResult](IAsyncResult result)
    > at System.ServiceModel.Activation.HostedHttpRequestAsyncResult.End(IAsyncResult result)
    
    >>>>>> EXCEPTION: 1
    >Type: System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException
    >Message (293): There was no channel actively listening at ‘http://343332-db2.txdal01.employbridge.net:5555/CRMDEV/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc’. This is often caused by an incorrect address URI. Ensure that the address to which the message is sent matches an address on which a service is listening.
    >StackTrace: present: A38A65A9
    
    >>>>>> FAULT: 1
    >ErrorCode: 0x80040216: ErrorCodes.UnExpected
    >Message (153): System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException: Microsoft Dynamics CRM has experienced an error. Reference number for administrators or support: #D49ADF0C
    
    So for some reason the OrganizationData.svc is not listening for requests. How can I configure the service and why would the Discovery.svc and Organization.svc work, but this one doesn’t?
  11. Rhett Clinton Post authorJune 21, 2011 at 5:03 pm
    
    It might be worth just doing a repair installation of CRM to see if it resolves the problem.
2. Kari Lappalainen January 31, 2013 at 1:31 pm
  
  Hi Rick,
  
  late reply but as far as I had this problem it was because of OrganizationData.svc endpoint was only available to webresource type of items (html, jscript, embedded silverlight) and not from outside of CRM context.
  
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  1. Friedhelm Wolf August 6, 2014 at 5:23 am
    
    Hi Rick,
    
    I’m wondering if you ever got to resolve this issue. We have a very similar problem here.
Narcos June 24, 2011 at 1:38 pm

hi,
how to get web services URL’s for CRM 2011 online ?

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1. Rhett Clinton Post authorJune 24, 2011 at 9:40 pm
  
  Do you mean the CRM 4 endpoints? I do not think they are available online.
  
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Sultan June 28, 2011 at 5:00 am

Hello,

When I try to access XRMServices/2011/Organization.svc I’ve the following error, though a couple of days ago it was working well.

An error has occurred.

Try this action again. If the problem continues, check the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Community for solutions or contact your organization’s Microsoft Dynamics CRM Administrator. Finally, you can contact Microsoft Support.

What is the problem or what’s wrong with my CRM installation?

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1. Rhett Clinton MVP Post authorJune 28, 2011 at 10:23 am
  
  Are you on-premise? Are you including the org name in the url. http://server/orgName/XRMServices…….
  
  You can enable tracing on the server and navigate to the url which will give you the error detail that is occurring.
  
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  1. Sultan June 29, 2011 at 3:57 am
    
    I enabled the DevErrors option and now I have the following exception
    
    System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Microsoft.Crm.MainApplication.Application_Error(Object sender, EventArgs eventArguments)
  2. Sultan June 29, 2011 at 4:04 am
    
    Yes I include the organization name, and at Settings > Customizations > Developer resources I see the link to the service endpoints but they also give the same error
  3. Sultan June 29, 2011 at 8:48 am
    
    Stack Trace:
    
    Error Description:
    Generic SQL error.
    
    Error Details:
    Generic SQL error.
    
    Full Stack:
    [SqlException: Cannot open database “ASPState” requested by the login. The login failed.
    
    Login failed for user ‘NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE’.]
    at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)
    
    [HttpException: Unable to connect to SQL Server session database.]
    at System.Web.SessionState.SqlSessionStateStore.ThrowSqlConnectionException(SqlConnection conn, Exception e)
  4. Rhett Clinton MVP Post authorJune 29, 2011 at 10:21 am
    
    By the looks of this error you need to give ‘NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE’ access to the ASPState database.
saboorawan August 15, 2011 at 9:53 am

I tried to connect the service, but it doesn’t contain my entities,

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1. Rhett Clinton MVP Post authorAugust 15, 2011 at 11:27 am
  
  I suggest you review this area of the CRM 2011 SDK http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg334357.aspx
  
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2. Rhett Clinton MVP Post authorAugust 15, 2011 at 2:15 pm
  
  Have you tried using the crmsvcutil tool. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff681561.aspx
  
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Oliver August 25, 2011 at 3:26 pm

I get this with the latest CRM 2011 server version, Rollup 3, when trying to connect from Outlook client:

“Unable to retrieve the OrgId for URL XrmServices/2011/Discovery.svc CRM 2011 Authentication Engine”

Any helpd from someone?

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1. Rhett Clinton MVP Post authorAugust 25, 2011 at 4:40 pm
  
  Hi Oliver, I haven’t seen this before and cannot find any info on it, It is probably best to post this on the CRM forum http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/dynamics
  
  Thanks,
  Rhett
  
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moneyxmoney July 15, 2012 at 6:05 pm

It seems Microsoft cloud team changed the URN’s again. See the support KB below http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2717390

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jody January 22, 2014 at 8:39 am

I wonder if Microsoft will tell anyone about the urls for crm 2013 this century!!!
Its been out for a while now

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1. Rhett Clinton MVP Post authorJanuary 24, 2014 at 12:29 pm
  
  Hi Jody, you can find how to discover the URL for Your Organization with IDiscoveryService Web Service here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg328127(v=crm.6).aspx and you can find all of the web service URLs for your organisation in CRM under Settings->Customization->Developer Resources, 2013 uses the same URLs as 2011.
  
  Also you can find the full list of URLs here under the article ‘Download the endpoints using the Dynamics CRM Developer resources page’. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg309401(v=crm.6).aspx
  
  Cheers,
  Rhett
  
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Guillaume Ridoux May 13, 2014 at 12:22 pm

Hi,

I’m using a trial instance of CRM online and I’m trying to call the web service to retrive data (account name).
I’m using the following URL to call the webservice:
“https://myOrgName.api.crm4.dynamics.com/XrmServices/2011/Organization.svc”

I receive the following error back:

Exception in component tMicrosoftCrmInput_1
org.apache.axis2.AxisFault: The server did not recognise the action which it received.
at org.apache.axis2.handlers.addressing.AddressingInFaultHandler.invoke(AddressingInFaultHandler.java:115)
at org.apache.axis2.engine.Phase.invokeHandler(Phase.java:340)
at org.apache.axis2.engine.Phase.invoke(Phase.java:313)
at org.apache.axis2.engine.AxisEngine.invoke(AxisEngine.java:262)
at org.apache.axis2.engine.AxisEngine.receive(AxisEngine.java:168)
at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.handleResponse(OutInAxisOperation.java:364)
[ERROR]: org.talend.ms.crm.MSCRMClient – The server did not recognise the action which it received.
at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.send(OutInAxisOperation.java:421)
at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.executeImpl(OutInAxisOperation.java:229)
at org.apache.axis2.client.OperationClient.execute(OperationClient.java:165)
at com.microsoft.schemas.xrm._2011.contracts.DiscoveryServiceStub.execute(DiscoveryServiceStub.java:187)
at org.talend.ms.crm.MSCRMClient.discoverOrganizationUrl(MSCRMClient.java:295)
at org.talend.ms.crm.MSCRMClient.getOnlineConnection(MSCRMClient.java:123)

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1. Rhett Clinton MVP Post authorMay 13, 2014 at 12:55 pm
  
  Hello, have you followed this SDK article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj602979(v=crm.5).aspx
  
  cheers,
  Rhett
  
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  1. Guillaume Ridoux May 16, 2014 at 2:36 pm
    
    Hi Rhett,
    Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m using talend and it usually deploys all the packages needed to use the API. Therefore I think I have all the components installed (I can see the netbeans, eclipse, axis2, etc. jar files).
    
    I’ve tried to make a call to the disco web service and it returned that I was using the wrong organization name. does this means that I have the right environment (as I’m able to get a response from the webservice)?
    
    Is it possible that with my online CRM trial user I don’t have access to the web service?