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NAV/CRM Dynamics Connector – Error – Object reference not set to an instance of an object
I got this error today NAV/CRM Dynamics Connector – Object reference not set to an instance of an object this was very frustrating because I hadn’t changed anything, literately tried to turn on the connector to make some changes. I’m not sure what had happened but the connector had got itself into a right mess. I tried […]
Microsoft Community Contributor Award – What Is it?
December 20, 2011
I have seen a impress Community Contributor Award being displayed on some of my favourite CRM bloggers blogs. I have seen the award on Rhett Clinton’s excellent blog MSCRM Bing’d He wrote a blog post on the subject, although it was in Feb, I have only just read it! http://bingsoft.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/microsoft-community-contributor-award-2011/ Why am I writing […]
CRM 2011 – How to change the format for a user
December 20, 2011
In CRM 2011 there are global format settings which can be specifed by a user with Administrator logon and these are in Settings –> Admin –> System Settings These provide the template for new users added to the system. So when I created an organisation, which got created with English (United States) format. I then […]
CRM 2011 – Free getting started guides for CRM 2011
December 16, 2011
I saw a good blog post from Business with CRM which is a getting started for Microsoft Dynamics CRM online Administrators. He has brought together some of the links from the CRM resource wiki. This is a great web page to give to users who will be the Administrators of their CRM system. The areas […]
CRM 2011 – Getting started with customer service processes in Microsoft Dynamics CRM
December 16, 2011
There was a very interesting blog post on the Microsoft blog this week called Resources for Customer Service it had a link to a couple of articles on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM resource centre, which I think has some of the best articles explaining how to use CRM for new users on the internet. If Microsoft […]
How to highlight code in hosted wordpress blogs
December 15, 2011
This has been something that has been annoying me for quite a while, how do I show c# and javascript code in the blog in a decent way. The other important factor to note here is I am using a hosted blog, so all the solutions with plugins are no good to me. Well I […]
CRM2011 OptionSetId Cannot be Changed when Importing Unmanaged Solution
December 15, 2011
I had an unusual problem today, I say unusual I mean irritating. I had a solution which was unmanaged and I had imported it to an organisation. I then worked on my solution further and at some point I decided some of the Option Sets should change from entity level to global option sets. When I […]
CRM 2011 – Javascript code to lookup parent customer addresses from contact form
December 15, 2011
I had written this code before but it is the property of my previous employer. I could rewrite fairly easily because I have recently done the same thing in CRM 4 based on code similar to this - http://www.stunnware.com/crm2/topic.aspx?id=JS26 but good news for me and other people out there JoshJWilliams has recently written the code and copied it […]
CRM 2011 – Error changing Sales Pipeline Funnel Chart
December 14, 2011
I tried to adjust the Sales pipeline chart today to use a different value to funnel because I was currently getting one big blue funnel. I would say before I go that this might be fixed in CRM rollup 5 upwards because they did improve the functionality of the graphs. I tried to change […]
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Entity Relationship Diagrams
December 14, 2011
When you start off developing with CRM 2011 it can take you quite a while to understand how all the entities are related to each other. So something which would have helped me is an Entity Relationship diagram and then now that I have a pretty good idea how it is all linked together I […]
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About the Hosk
I'm a Dynamics CRM Developer - Consultant based in Birmingham, UK.
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CRM 4.0 Applications
CRM 4.0 Customization and Configuration
CRM 4.0 Installation and Deployment
CRM 4.0 Extending Microsoft Dynamics
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