Monday, July 13, 2015

How to resolve "The account specified to run the Microsoft Dynamics CRM application does not have Performance Counter permissions"

or

"The account specified to run the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Asynchronous service does not have Performance Counter permissions"

You might have come across these errors during the installation of Dynamics CRM on the System Checks screen as shown below.


Resolution:
  • Open Computer Management.
  • Expand Local Users and Groups
  • Select Groups
  • Double click Performance Log Users and add those users into this group
  • Gp back to Dynamics CRM installation. Click Back on the System Checks screen and then Next
You should be good to go!

PS: I was installing CRM 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2