CRM Exchange Sync 3.0 Released
Our CRM Exchange Sync tool has just been released, now with additional functionality and support for additional environments.
Checking if a solution exists and upload it to CRM using the SDK
Many times we encounter an external application that requires a solution to be installed in your CRM environment, but it might not be there or we might require to upgrade an existing solution.
Windows 10 is here. Is CRM ready?
Windows 10 has been released, and Microsoft offered a free upgrade to licensed Windows 7 and Windows 8 users. Windows 10 ships with a new browser called Microsoft Edge, which introduces some great new features and let go of some older capabilities of Internet Explorer. These changes will require CRM to be updated.
Windows 10. Available Today. Upgrade for Free
Today, Microsoft release Windows 10 in 190 countries. The launch of Windows 10 is being deployed to millions of people and organzations around the world.
Permission accessing SSRS Report Server/Manager
Recently we have encountered an issue where a domain admin (and local admin) account was trying to access the SSRS Report Manager and Report Server web sites and was getting the following error:
User DOMAINUserAccount does not have the required permissions. Verify that the permissions have been grated and Windows User Account Control (UAC) have been addressed.
CRM 2013 Notes Control Form Presentation
CRM 2013 has a new feature that allows displaying Posts, Notes and Activities within a single control (using the Updated Forms). We can easily add this new control to the form by clicking on the Notes ribbon icon on the Insert Tab of the Form Customization.
Using Multiple User Principal Name Suffixes
When configuring ADFS in your own local the default login of any user authenticating into the environment would be user@domain.local or something of that sort. At many times, especially when working with multiple applications, we would like the user to authenticate using different login credentials such as user@mynewdomain.com. In order to implement this, we can add suffixes that gives us the ability to user a friendly logon name that is not the same as the domain or parent’s domain name.
Setting the Security Token Expiration for IFD Claims-based Authentication
When configuring Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 to your Claims based Authentication a Authentication Required dialog box appears every 20 minutes.
By default the security token lifetime for claims–based authentication deployment using ADFS 2.0 (or above) is 60 minutes, however the token expiration dialog box will appear 20 minutes before the actual expiration.
CRM 2011 Errors with State Code or Status Code is invalid when deleting a managed solution
After importing a managed solution and making changes to the environment by removing some of the out-of-the-box views for the Contact or Account entity, we encounter an error if we ever try to delete the managed solution. The error is “State code or status code is invalid” or 1 is not a valid status code for state code…”
What’s New in CRM 2013
With the recent introduction of the next release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, originally code-named Orion and the new videos that are now available on the Microsoft Partner Training site, the future looks very interesting.