CRM 2011 – Rollup 10.2 – a rollup of a rollup
When I saw there was another CRM rollup and it was called rollup 10 I had a sense of deja vu about the rollup, in fact I was pretty sure I had installed Rollup 10. after a bit of digging around I have...
View ArticleInstalling CRM 2011 and Windows Server 2012 – not supported but working…just
The first thing I am going to add is this is totally UNSUPPORTED by Microsoft so think twice about doing this on a production server for a client. Hopefully Microsoft will swiftly pull their finger...
View ArticleDynamic Connector upgrade Gotcha
A quick blog post about a little gotcha I found with a recent Dynamic Connector upgrade. I upgraded an existing Dynamic Connector configuration and everything seemed to go ok but when I looked at the...
View ArticleCRM 2011 Tool – Iconator will speed up the icon adding process
I sometimes still use the CRM 4 demo application to create icons for CRM 2011 organisation, other times you might find some free icons and then have to go through the process of adding them as web...
View ArticleCRM 2011 – adding the CRM Outlook add on in windows 8 needs Windows Identity...
If you have a new laptop and try and install the CRM 2011 outlook client then you will probably get an error when Outlook tries to use the CRM 2011 discovery service and display the different...
View ArticleUsing Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 and CRM 2011
I have been installing some software on Windows Server 2012 and setting up the CRM Outlook Addin on Windows 8. Using the new version of windows is tricky to begin with because you can’t find anything,...
View ArticleCRM 2011 – Free universal search solution from Sonoma Partners
The Sonoma partners have done many great things for the CRM community, they have an excellent blog, they have authored some of the best books on CRM out there and now and again they write an excellent...
View ArticleMicrosoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Installation and Deployment PASSED
After studying on and off for about 4 months I finally booked the exam and passed it. It’s always a lovely feeling to have passed and not have to study for a while. You can see more about the exam...
View ArticleCRM Online – Storage space, costs and Information
Today a salesman asked me how big our CRM database was? A curious question I thought but then he was investigating how much space you get with CRM Online and how much it costs to buy more space. I...
View ArticleCRM 2011 – SPN’s can be hell
If you have installed CRM you might have been unluckily enough to come up against some SPN (Service Principal Name) problems. SPN problems are usually difficult to resolve because it usually involves...
View Article[NAV Enumerated Values to Picklist] has encountered an error while processing...
If you get this error message in the NAV connector for the enumerated maps [NAV Enumerated Values to Picklist] has encountered an error while processing key [Countries_Regions]. Sequence contains no...
View ArticleCRM 2011 – “No Organization has been specified” in Visual Studio CRM 2011...
I opened a visual studio CRM 2011 solution and got the message “No Organization has been specified” hmmm, I thought and then annoyingly I wasn’t able to add an organisation because the CRM Explorer...
View ArticleDynamic Connector – Missing Icon
Sometimes you end up installing, uninstalling the Dynamic connector lots of times, especially in the bad old days where the connector would often forget your maps when you updated them. Sometimes this...
View ArticleCRM 2011 – Understanding Email Tracking tokens
When you turn on email tracking in CRM 2011 the default method is to use tracking tokens which are attached to the subject of the email. Some users instantly don’t like the funny text of CRM:0001001...
View ArticleCRM 2011 – Advanced Bag of Tips & Tricks for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011...
I bumped into this video this week and was very interested. I don’t often see videos aimed for CRM Developers and even if you only get one tip out of the video it will be worth it when you use it over...
View ArticleCRM 2011 – MB2-876 Exam Study Notes
I found a great study guide from the blog MSCRM Geek on the blog post below http://www.mscrmgeek.com/post/2012/05/09/MB2-876-Exam-Study-Notes.aspx The study guide is 107 pages long If you want to...
View ArticleCRM 2011 – CRM Developer Technical Skills
Whilst studying for my Extending CRM 2011 exam and going through a chapter which details the different ways you can access the CRM data, it had a section with the title “Helpful Skills”, which...
View ArticleDynamic Connector – When new/custom tables won’t add web services
I have been working on a Dynamic Connector upgrade and one of the steps in the upgrade is you have to apply a hotfix. These hotfix is for the Integration of Countries/Regions hotfix. I think this was...
View ArticleCRM 2011 – How to copy a workflow
Today I needed to make a few workflows which were very similar to one I had already created. I looked around CRM but I couldn’t see any copy functionality or a sneaky save as in the workflow (which you...
View ArticleCRM 2011 – Outlook Synchronisation Process – who wins
Someone asked me to explain exactly how the Synchronisation process worked from outlook to CRM. I wasn’t positive which records would be the last to update, I had a feeling it was the update with the...
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