Day: July 26, 2018

Enabling Secure Connection for Web Services: Update Native Endpoint

Ian Grieve3 minute read1 Comment

Microsoft Dynamics GPThis post is part of the Enabling Secure Connection for Web Services series.

There are several configuration files which need to be amended to enable a secure connection for Web Services. The first is a href=’There are several configuration files which need to be amended to enable a secure connection for Web Services. The first is WSBindings.config; the second is the legacy endpoint config file, DynamicsGPLegacy.config and the third, being covered in this post, is the native endpoint configuration file, DynamicsGP.config, which is, by default, located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics\GPWebServices\ServiceConfigs.

There are three elements which need to be updated in the services node:

  1. Change the behaviorConfiguration node from GPWCFStaticMetadataBehavior to GPDynamicMetadataBehavior.
  2. Change the bindingConfiguration node from WSHttpBindingTarget to WSHttpBindingTargetSSL.
  3. Add a new https baseAddress line using the new port and the externally accessible DNS hostname:
    <add baseAddress="https://SERVER.msdynamicsgp.co.uk:48666/Dynamics/GPService"/>
<service name="Microsoft.Dynamics.GP.WebServices.Contract.DynamicsGP" behaviorConfiguration="GPDynamicMetadataBehavior">
        <endpoint address="Mex" name="http" binding="customBinding" bindingConfiguration="CustomBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/>
        <endpoint address="GPService" name="GPWebService" binding="wsHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="WSHttpBindingTargetSSL" contract="Microsoft.Dynamics.GP.WebServices.Contract.IGPServices"/>
        <host>
          <baseAddresses>
            <add baseAddress="http://SERVER:48620/Dynamics/GPService"/>
            <add baseAddress="https://SERVER.msdynamicsgp.co.uk:48666/Dynamics/GPService"/>
          </baseAddresses>
        </host>
      </service>

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