CRM2011 FetchXML Reports for CRM with Office 365 Authentication - crm

Ladies and gentlemen,
Has anyone done that? I have a FetchXML report that works fine in a regular on-line CRM2011, but it doesn’t work in CRM2011 with Office 365 authentication..
I'm pretty sure it is because of authentication.. Same thing that happens with SWTools.
Please help!)

I haven't used reports with Office 365 authentication but I have used the SDK. You don't need a device ID as with CRM Online; simply a username and a password, and your authentication method is online federation.
Hopefully, this is a hint in the right direction.

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