This is supposed to be one of a series of CRM Online & Windows Azure posts for which I have been building some samples.  While I really wanted to make this the second or third post, someone needed the explanation sooner, so this will be somewhat of a tease to the overall series.

Scenario:

I’ve already configured SSO across Windows Azure & CRM Online.  When I try to integrate an Azure hosted page into the CRM UI, I get the following errors:

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This video walks you through why you get the error and how to work around it with a better user experience.

Here’s the code for the two helper pages…

ssoinitiator.htm (CRM Web Resource)

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <title></title>
        <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5">
        <script type="text/javascript">
   1:  
   2:             function getQuerystring(key, default_) {
   3:                 if (default_ == null) default_ = "";
   4:                 key = key.replace(/[\[]/, "\\\[").replace(/[\]]/, "\\\]");
   5:                 var regex = new RegExp("[\\?&]" + key + "=([^&#]*)");
   6:                 var qs = regex.exec(window.location.href);
   7:                 if (qs == null)
   8:                     return default_;
   9:                 else
  10:                     return qs[1];
  11:             }
  12:  
  13:             function redirectToIntendedPage() {
  14:                 window.location = decodeURIComponent(getQuerystring("data"));
  15:             }
  16:  
  17:             function bodyOnload() {
  18:                 if (document.cookie.indexOf("AZURE_SSO_COMPLETE=") != -1) {
  19:                     redirectToIntendedPage();
  20:                 } else {
  21:                     var message = document.getElementById("message");
  22:                     message.style.visibility = "visible";
  23:  
  24:                     if (document.cookie.indexOf("AZURE_SSO_INITIATED=") == -1) {
  25:                         document.cookie = "AZURE_SSO_INITIATED=true";
  26:                         window.open("https://crmazrfedtest.cloudapp.net/SSOHelper.htm");//replace with your azure hosted version
  27:                     } else {
  28:                         document.cookie = "AZURE_SSO_COMPLETE=true";
  29:                         redirectToIntendedPage();
  30:                     }
  31:                 }
  32:             }
  33:         
</script>
    </head>
    <body onload="bodyOnload() ">
        <div id="message" style="visibility:hidden">
            <h1>Initiating Single Sign On...</h1>
            <p>This page will refresh shortly.</p>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

SSOHelper.htm (Azure hosted)

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <title>SSO Helper</title>
        <script type="text/javascript">
   1:  
   2:             function bodyOnload() {
   3:                 window.close();
   4:             }
   5:         
</script>
        <meta http-equiv="expires" content="-1" />
        <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" />
    </head>
    <body onload="bodyOnload()">
        <div>
            <h1>Single Sign On Complete</h1>
            <p>Please close this window.</p>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

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