Question

I want to be able to enable/disable a CRM 2011 Organization using Deployment Service (Deployment.Svc) or using CRM 2011 SDK (Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Deployment Namespace) using C# or VB.Net application.

I am using some code like this:

 Dim StateReq As CRM2011DeploymentSvc.DeleteRequest
                Dim StateResp As CRM2011DeploymentSvc.DeleteResponse

                StateReq.EntityType = DeploymentEntityType.Organization
                StateReq.InstanceTag.Id = FoundOrganization.OrganizationId
                StateReq.InstanceTag.Name = FoundOrganization.UniqueName


                StateResp = CType(_CrmDeployService.Execute(StateReq), DeleteResponse)

1. Q1: This code is OK as far as deletion of entities(Organization, accounts etc) is concerned. but i am more interested in Enabling and disabling the organization (occasionally) along deleting (when required).

2. Q2: Lets say if i Delete an Organization, will i be able to undo delete or recover it. If yes then how and if not what else is the alternative?
3. Q3: In CRM 4.0 we can disable/Enable the organization using

**SetStateOrganizationRequest**



**SetStateOrganizationResponse**

Classes using the Deployment web service but in CRM 2011, the Deployment WCF Service does not contain any such method. What should i do to enable or disable the organization?

Replies are much appreciated.

Thank you.

Answer 1

ok i got the solution courtesy of ResultOnDemand

The following code worked for me

EntityInstanceId i = new EntityInstanceId();
i.Id = OrganisationId; //Organisation Id

DeploymentService.Organization organization = (DeploymentService.Organization)Provider.deploymentservice.Retrieve(DeploymentEntityType.Organization, i);

//Update status to disabled
organization.State = OrganizationState.Disabled;

DeploymentService.UpdateRequest updateRequest = new UpdateRequest();
updateRequest.Entity = organization;

//update status
Provider.deploymentservice.Execute(updateRequest);