Issue: When submitting InfoPath forms which access data from another farm, will get below error

"A query to retrieve form data cannot be completed because this action would violate cross-domain restrictions.

If this form template is published to a SharePoint document library, cross-domain access for user form templates must be enabled under InfoPath Forms Services in SharePoint Central Administration, and the data connection settings must be stored in a UDC file in a data connection library in the same site collection.

If this is an administrator-approved form template, the security level of the form must be set to full trust, or the data connection settings must be stored in a UDC file by using the Manage data connection files option under InfoPath Forms Services in SharePoint Central Administration.

An entry has been added to the Windows event log of the server.

Log ID:6932 

You can reproduce this issue with below steps

1. Created a Source list
2. List URL: https://source/sites/InfoPath/Lists/Psource
3. Destination URL: https://destination/Pdestination
4. Created a new infopath form.
5. Added a receive data connection pointing to list "https://source/sites/InfoPath/Lists/Psource"
6. Published it to https://destination/Pdestination
7. Tried to access the form from SharePoint site, it gave error.
8. Created a data connection library in https://destination.
9. Converted the data connection to an udcx file and uploaded in https://destination/udl .
10. Enabled full trust in the form.
11. Tried to access the form from IE, it fails with correlation id.

Error message

System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() at Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.Server.SolutionLifetime.DataAdapterSharepointListQuery.SendSoapRequestAndReturnResultSync(DataAdapter adapter, WebRequest request) . n entry has been added to the Windows event log of the server. Log ID:5566

You see below entries in the ULS

05/14/2013 13:03:59.32 w3wp.exe (0x084C) 0x16D4 SharePoint Foundation Logging Correlation Data xmnv Medium Name=Request (GET:https://destination:80/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?XsnLocation=https://destination/PDestination/Forms/template.xsn&SaveLocation=http%3A%2F%2Fdestination%2FPDestination&ClientInstalled=true&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fdestination%2FPDestination%2FForms%2FAllItems%2Easpx&DefaultItemOpen=1) 83959695-dcf1-44be-b7b4-931e75941d07

05/14/2013 13:03:59.32 w3wp.exe (0x084C) 0x16D4 SharePoint Foundation Logging Correlation Data xmnv Medium Site=/ 83959695-dcf1-44be-b7b4-931e75941d07

05/14/2013 13:03:59.53 w3wp.exe (0x084C) 0x16D4 InfoPath Forms Services Runtime - Data Connections 7tfk Medium Data adapter failed during OnLoad: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. 83959695-dcf1-44be-b7b4-931e75941d07

05/14/2013 13:03:59.53 w3wp.exe (0x084C) 0x16D4 InfoPath Forms Services Runtime - Data Connections eq8l Warning The following query failed: PSource (User: EOS\administrator, Form Name: PDestination, IP: , Connection Target: https://destination/dcl/psource.udcx, Request: https://destination/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?XsnLocation=https://destination/PDestination/Forms/template.xsn&SaveLocation=https://destination/PDestination&ClientInstalled=true&Source=https://destination/PDestination/Forms/AllItems.aspx&DefaultItemOpen=1, Form ID: urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:PDestination:-myXSD-2013-05-14T06-54-07 Type: DataAdapterException, Exception Message: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.) 83959695-dcf1-44be-b7b4-931e75941d07

05/14/2013 13:03:59.59 w3wp.exe (0x084C) 0x16D4 SharePoint Server State Service 8kfs Medium The StateManager is disposing and calling ReleaseLockedStates() (Count=0) 83959695-dcf1-44be-b7b4-931e75941d07

05/14/2013 13:03:59.59 w3wp.exe (0x084C) 0x16D4 SharePoint Foundation Monitoring b4ly Medium Leaving Monitored Scope (Request (GET:https://destination:80/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?XsnLocation=https://destination/PDestination/Forms/template.xsn&SaveLocation=http%3A%2F%2Fdestination%2FPDestination&ClientInstalled=true&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fdestination%2FPDestination%2FForms%2FAllItems%2Easpx&DefaultItemOpen=1)). Execution Time=265.2747 83959695-dcf1-44be-b7b4-931e75941d07

Resolution:

Following are the changes that needs to be done for the InfoPath form to pull data from another Farm.

• In the destination farm, download the respective udcx file from https://destination/udl library.
• Add an authentication element  as per ‘https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms772017%28v=office.14%29.aspx’

<udc:Authentication>

    <udc:UseExplicit CredentialType="NTLM">

        <udc:UserId>domain\username</udc:UserId>

        <udc:Password>Password</udc:Password>

    </udc:UseExplicit>

    <udc:SSO AppId="" CredentialType=""/>

</udc:Authentication>

• Also need to make sure that we have enabled 'Allow user form templates to use authentication information contained in data connection files' in Central Admin.

SharePoint by default is configured to send Email over port 25 (default SMTP) but Microsoft online services are configured to receive Emails over port 587.

In order to bridge the gap between these two things, we can use in built feature of Windows Server OS to route Emails

In Short

• We will be sending Emails to SharePoint Server OS itself over port 25.
• Windows server  SMTP in turn will route the Emails to Microsoft online over port 587

Configuring Outgoing Email in MSF (Microsoft SharePoint Foundation), MSS (Microsoft SharePoint Server) 

SMTP Configuration for Windows Server 2008

 Pre - requisites : Need to install IIS 6 Manager.

Open the IIS 6 Manager on your Windows Server 2008 machine.

 Go to the DSMTP Virtual Server properties

-> Go to Access,
click on Relay

-> Add the localhost IP 127.0.0.1 and the internal servers IP(192.168 Range) and public IP
and click ok.

->Goto Delivery
-> Click on Outbound security

 -> Enable basic authentication, Enter the user name and password for authentication given by MS online

-> On Delivery
-> Outbound Security also enable TLS Encryption

->Click ok

->On Delivery ->  Click Outbound connection

-> Set TCP port to 587

->Click OK

->On Delivery

-> Go to Advanced tab

-> Set Fully Qualified domain name of your SharePoint server in the Fully-qualified domain
name.

-> Set smarthost  "your microsoft online smarthost"

-> Click OK

-> Click OK to close IIS 6 Manager.

Including IIS6 configuration, you should also do the below SMTP settings in IIS 7

SMTP configuration in IIS 7,

->Open IIS7 Manager

->Click on the Specific Web application where you want to configure outgoing emails.

->Click on SMTP E-mail 

->SMTP Server
"localhost", Port 25

->Authentication  : not required.

Outgoing Email configuration in SharePoint  2010

Go to Central Admin
Site > Click on Outgoing Email settings.

->In the outbound SMTP server give the Fully qualified domain name of the SharePoint Server.

->From Address > Microsoft online account Email ID.

->Reply-to > Microsoft online account Email ID

Now you should be able to send Emails from SharePoint servers, configure alerts etc.,

For configuring outgoing Emails in MOSS, WSS when the base OS is Windows Server 2003

• Please follow the steps to configure SMTP settings in IIS 6

• The outgoing Email settings in MOSS are similar to SharePoint 2010