June 26, 2015 – Hosk's Dynamic Blog

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A list and review of CRM 2013 tools, this will probably work in CRM 2015 as well

A collection of my favourite CRM Developer articles I have written

All the CRM 2013 content to help you pass the exam

Words of Wisdom from the Hosk. I have written over 900 articles, surely I should have said a few memorable things

There are a few common and very annoying problems that annoy me with CRM, so I have decided to group them together in this blog so I can easily and quickly find how to stop them.

Disable Send Report to Microsoft pop up

I personally have always wondered what Microsoft does with all those error reports it asks people to send!

You might be tired of clicking on these message and you probably don’t want your end users to see this popup.

Good news – Luckily Microsoft have added a setting we can turn off

Bad news – it’s hidden in a place where no one would dream of looking

If you want to stop this message, you need to go to

Settings –> Administration –> Privacy Preferences –> tick box and select Never send

Users get created with the wrong format

This is a common and annoying problem for UK CRM Developers. You create a new organisation which as the default English (United States). This is clearly no good for UK users because the Americans have got their months and days mixed, currency dollars etc.

All the users you add will be given the same Format settings as the default.

Once a user is created the only way to change their format settings is to go into their personal options and change the format settings.

The way to avoid setting users with English (United States) is to change the Current Format in the System Settings to English (United Kingdom) and then create your users.

Stop the Annoying Welcome Woman

To do this you have to add a registry key. I found the instructions on the awesome power object blog How to Disable the CRM 2013 Welcome Screen

On the CRM server in open Regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSCRM

Add a new DWORD (32-bit) and call it DisableNavTour

Annoying outlook download message

Microsoft is always trying to persuade people to download Outlook, if you have got annoyed at this message you can turn it off by flicking a switch in System Settings

Get rid of annoying pending email warning message

The annoying pending email message has plagued me a number of times. There are two ways to get rid of it.

1. Delete the pending emails, instructions here

2. Modify CRM Server registry setting DisablePendingEmailReminder to 1. Instructions in this blog

CRM 2013 Navigation is slow and tricky

Quite how Microsoft made CRM 2013 slower and more difficult to navigate than CRM 2011 is a mystery but it was probably a decision they made whilst banishing the Start menu from Windows 8.

I have talked about it in this blog – Good CRM design should not make users think

You have a couple of good options

CRM 2013 One Click solution

Use these Bookmarks to help speed your navigation

CRM Navigation Hacking with Bookmarks