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CRM 2011 – No reports working in CRM
I had a very odd and unusual problem, actually I say that most problems that involve reporting services are almost always odd and not unusual. I was working on CRM which had already been setup (not by be) and the users were having problems with reports. The problem was none of the built in reports […]
CRM 2011 – Getting the CRM License from the database
May 30, 2012
A customer was moving their CRM installation to a brand new server and wanted to know his license key. obviously I note down the CRM license key for each installation and keep them in CRM (where else would I put it!), you can also retrieve this information from partnersource or voice, although I usually find […]
CRM 2011 – Trying to work out what active directory groups are for different organisations
May 29, 2012
In you development environment or maybe in live you might have numerous CRM organisations installed. Each CRM organisation will have a separate batch of four active directory groups which CRM uses. UserGroup ReportingGroup PrivUserGroup SQLAccessGroup If you create more than one organisation you will find yourself with 4 more active directory groups with no real way to […]
Dynamic Connector – mapping OptionStrings in NAV to Optionsets in CRM
May 22, 2012
Firstly the article post below by the connector team was extremely useful, even if it took me a while to understand where they were putting the values because they didn’t have any screen shots. I hope the connector team write some more blog posts because the Dynamic Connector users need all the help and documentation […]
CRM 2011 – CRM Developer Toolkit – Error registering plugins and/or workflows. Supported deployment does not agree with message availability
May 18, 2012
I got the error whilst trying to deploy a plugin using the CRM development toolkit Error 1 Error registering plugins and/or workflows. Supported deployment does not agree with message availability C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\CRM\Microsoft.CrmDeveloperTools.CrmClient.targets 176 4 CrmPackage This was an odd error and I couldn’t work out what was causing it. if you try and search […]
CRM 2011 – Javascript to set the current date and time
May 17, 2012
A quick blog entry and a suprisingly easy and small piece of code In the code below I have function which gets triggered when a user ticks the confirm Closed checkbox it then sets the current date and time. if the user untick the checkbox I wipe the date and time value. The date functionality […]
CRM 2011 – Creating a Dev organisation on the same server
May 16, 2012
I had a customer who wanted to create a DEV organisation to practise tinkering with CRM on. The easiest way to do this is to take a copy of the live organisation and import it. I have done something similar when upgrading a CRM 4 organisation to CRM 2011 so I was confident I knew […]
CRM 2011 – Update Rollup 8 released and speed improvement in rollup 7
May 4, 2012
So Rollup 8 is released, it seems like rollup 7 was only released last week. looking at the dates rollup 7 was released on the 22/03/2012 and now rollup 8 is released 03/05/2012 (UK dates). Firstly if you want to know the highlights of the new rollup, check out Donna Edwards blog http://edwardsdna.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/mscrmur8/ she mentions […]
Find the version of SQL server you are running
May 3, 2012
This would seem an easy thing to do but it can be a maze of screens. You can go to the SQL Server manager and go help –> about You can also run the SQL query below SELECT @@VERSION ‘Version’, serverproperty(‘edition’) ‘Server Edition’ , SERVERPROPERTY(‘ProductLevel’) ‘ProductLevel’ which gives information like this Version Microsoft SQL Server […]
CRM 2011 – Install error – StartWebsiteAction failed
May 2, 2012
I was installing CRM today and I got the error below I had got over a couple of tricky hurdles. Firstly the server I was installing on already had SQL Server on so I had to manually set up Reporting Services, which anything to do with reporting services I always find difficult. I had then […]
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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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