Dev to Dev, Let them out once in a while
Sometimes the developers have to sit at the table and talk to each other.In the really big Enterprise projects, where you bring together the greatest of the great (sometimes still bleeding) AND you...
View ArticleVisual Studio Online
Did you know that if you track all your requirements and backlog iteration items in Visual Studio Online you can easily bridge Business Speak and Developer Speak?The developers live in Visual Studio,...
View ArticleCRM Online: No Option to buy Additional Storage for Non Profit Organisations
I had one of our Non-profit customers contact me recently. They had received the 80% storage warning message about their CRM and wanted to buy Additional Storage. Not understanding what the issue was,...
View ArticlePower BI Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online – Power Map Report Part 3
In this series of blogs I have been describing how to create Power BI reports in Microsoft Excel based using data from a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Organisation.In my previous blog I demonstrated...
View ArticleThink Dynamics CRM, Think Entities : Thanks Ben!
One of my favorite bloggers, Ben Hosk, has a great post about teaching Senior Developers to think in entities. Why Entities instead of Tables? Well they give you so much more.Check out Ben's buzz on...
View ArticleAsynchronous Batch Process Solution Revisited – part 1
I had some free time and decided to review the Asynchronous Batch Process Pattern Solution. On January 2013 I promised to publish a revised version and didn’t manage to do so. To redeem myself, I have...
View ArticleMicrosoft Dynamics CRM 2015 (Version 7.x.x.x) Exams
Three Words: Do the training It is available on PartnerSource, the Dynamics Partner Learning PortalExam titleExam numberMicrosoft Dynamics CRM 2013 ApplicationsMB2-700Extending Microsoft Dynamics CRM...
View ArticleTop Six Mistakes in Dynamics CRM Upgrades
Every two years or so, Microsoft releases a new version of Dynamics CRM, packed with features and performance enhancements. To take advantage of this technological progress, you have to upgrade your...
View ArticleTip #434: Recommended security for queues
CRM 2013 SP1 introduced private queues, but the private functionality only works correctly if your user security role permissions are set correctly.The recommended security role settings is:BU level...
View ArticleKO Support für IE8
Leider ist der Internet Explorer 8, trotz des hohen Alters, noch immer nicht ausgestorben*. Deshalb sollte eine Website auch mit dem IE8 “zugänglich” sein. Das MVVM Framework Knockout...
View ArticleAccessing related entities fields in Calculated Fields formulas in Microsoft...
Introduction: In our recent blog post about calculated fields we have covered about calculated fields support extended for Date/Time data types in Dynamics CRM 2015 Online Update 1. You can read...
View ArticleCustomer are So Cool, Azure In Sports (one story of many)
"Next Generation Sports Network (NGSN) wanted to make international soccer matches available live and on-demand to a global viewer base. It required a wide array of solutions to create the next step in...
View ArticlePlanning for CRM Success 3 Part Educational Series
I will be facilitating a 3 part online educational series sponsored by MSDynamicsworld.com starting this Thursday. This non technical program will help business professionals new to CRM understand how...
View ArticleReopen The Visual Studio Start Page After Closing A Solution
On any given day the projects I’m working on in Visual Studio more often then not are in the recent items list on the start page. I also like having the least amount of things (including the start...
View ArticleMicrosoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Upgrade: Time to Consider Deployment Change
If you are upgrading to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015, now is a good time to examine your deployment model as well. Moving from on premise to the cloud or vice versa may require architectural changes...
View ArticleProgrammatically change the Business Unit of a Team in Dynamics CRM
We had this requirement recently where we need to change the business unit of teams programmatically. Seemed quite easy since I already had the experience of the using SetBusinessSystemUserRequest...
View ArticleHow to Easily Get Record Counts for Entitys in Microsoft Dynamics CRM
You can quickly get record counts for all of your entities if you need to using the RecordCountShapshot table in Dynamics CRM. You aren't supposed to do select queries against tables so I wouldn't...
View ArticleMicrosoft Worldwide Partner Conference by the Numbers – 2015 Edition
We always leave with a ton of great takeaways and announcements from Microsoft's WPC and this year was no different. 0: number of sails in the new Dynamics logotype. From Monday’s keynote, it...(read...
View ArticleHow to Mass Update Business Process Stages
Today's guest blogger is Rachel Sullivan, a Senior Consultant at Sonoma PartnersCRM allows you to easily update fields on records using their bulk edit functionality. Records that you can query and...
View ArticleExporting Data to Re-import: The Invalid Column Headings Issue
Often you’ll need to export data from CRM, make changes, and then re-import the data using CRM’s out-of-box capabilities. In doing this, you might receive the message “The data has invalid column...
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