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Enable trace settings through Windows PowerShell Note These changes made in Windows PowerShell do not update the Registry. These changes update the DeploymentProperties and ServerSettingsProperties tables in the MSCRM_CONFIG database. Register the cmdlets 1.      Log in to the administrator account on your Microsoft Dynamics CRM server. 2.      In a Windows PowerShell window, type the following command: Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Crm.PowerShell To obtain a list of the current settings, type the following command: Get-CrmSetting TraceSettings Set the trace settings 1.      Type the following command: $setting = Get-CrmSetting TraceSettings 2.      Type the following command to enable tracing: $setting.Enabled=$True 3.      Type the following command to set the trace settings: Set-CrmSetting $setting 4.      Type the following command to get a current list of the trace settings: Get-CrmSetting TraceSettings To disable tracing through Windows PowerShe

Here is a quick code snippet to Add a Node in XML from from the XPath, the following PowerShell function will search for the node hierarchy, if it does not exist then it will create it. function   CheckForXMLNode  {      param  (          $File , # File Path of XML to search the node          $NodePath     )      $nodes  =  $NodePath  -split  "/"      $path  =  "//Configuration"      # My Sample Node Path is like this # //Configuration/Farm/CustomParent/CustomChild      foreach  ( $node   in   $nodes ) {          if  ( ( $node  -ne  "" ) -and ( $node  -ne  "Configuration" ) ) {             [ xml ] $xml  =   Get-Content   $File              $PathToCheck  =  $path + "/" + $node              $NodeToCheck  =  $xml .SelectSingleNode ( $PathToCheck )              if (! $NodeToCheck ){                  Write-Host   " $node  Node does not existing. creating ...."  -NoNewline