CRM 2011 allows you to rename and delete business units, this can be very useful if you have spelt something incorrectly. To rename a business unit Settings –> Administration –> business units click on the business unit you want, change the display name and press save You can also delete a business but you must… [Read more…]
January 30, 2012
I saw this project on codeplex MS CRM 2011 Twitter Integration and thought this might be interesting. It could be useful to some people but when I looked into the project it left me a little bit baffled. When I saw project, this is actually a link to an html page Twitter.html There doesn’t seem… [Read more…]
January 30, 2012
The CRM tool master and worthy of a double MVP Tanguy or Toolguy as I think he should change his name to has once again made a great new tool for CRM 2011. not happy with creating this amazing list of tools for CRM he has created a Document Generator View Layout Replicator Searchable Property Updater… [Read more…]
January 27, 2012
There has been some excellent blogs and articles released today so I thought I would create a quick blog post with some links to them. Enjoy CRM 2011: How to launch a Dialog on click of custom ribbon button? http://ankit.inkeysolutions.com/2012/01/crm-2011-how-to-launch-dialog-on-click.html New tool : Documentation generator http://mscrmtools.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-tool-documentation-generator.html How to colorize grid rows… http://mscrmtools.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-colorize-grid-rows.html Activity… [Read more…]
January 27, 2012
I tried to import a solution today and go an error, an SQL error similar to the one below The culprit in my situation was I had a field which the field was of type int I then had deleted the variable and created a new one with the same name of type picklist When… [Read more…]
January 26, 2012
I had a red alert today when a customers recently live CRM installation completely stopped working. It stop working so badly that no one could even log in and when you tried to the screen just mentioned a Generic SQL error. When ever you cannot login into CRM the first thing to check is Microsoft Dynamics… [Read more…]
January 26, 2012
I’m a bit late reporting this (because I wasn’t aware) but there has been a new release of the CRM/NAV connector and we are now on Feature Pack 7. You can find all about the release on the Microsoft blog site here if you just want the download link then you have to partner source… [Read more…]
January 25, 2012
The CRM/NAV connector always likes to keep me on my toes and today it achieved the feet but suddenly stopping working. One minute it’s working and the next minute none of the maps are running. So what happened. Looking at the logs (a NAV/CRM connector users best friend) I noticed there were some errors about… [Read more…]
January 24, 2012
The Microsoft Field engineering blog has added the update to the new version of Rollup 6 for CRM 2011. It also has a list of all the releases so far which is very useful http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crminthefield/archive/2012/01/23/microsoft-dynamics-crm-4-0-and-2011-update-rollup-release-dates-build-numbers-and-collateral.aspx CRM 2011 UR # Release date and Download Center URL Release date – Microsoft Update Build number Knowledge Base article… [Read more…]
January 24, 2012
Adxstudio who have a portal product you can use with CRM 2011 are kind generous souls who are giving away a free solution to help developers with the productivity. To find out more head on over to their webpage but the solution does have a free autonumber, bing maps and a place to store general… [Read more…]
I'm a Dynamics CRM Developer - Consultant based in Birmingham, UK.
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