Accessing crm2011 web service data with visual studio 2008

Question

I'm using visual studio 2008 to create custom reports. But I've always getting the same mistake...

The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure. ---------------------------- The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel. ---------------------------- Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved: 'https://srv-crm/myCompany/XRMServices/2011/Organization.svc?wsdl'.

My site has multiple IIS bindings so I've tried the following. But still nothing and I got a 404 error instead.

CRM2011 is configured on two separate servers (separate sql server + client side) and I'm tring to access to the service from a test server.

What else could I check?

Any help would be welcome !

Answer 1

For those having troubles like these accessing the soap web services and using a https protocol, we managed to solve the issue by configuring the RTM CRM 2011 deployment with Claims based authentication and IFD access thanks to this tutorial.

Hope it will help some of you !