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9x Microsoft Business Solutions 365 MVP, I'm the CTIO for congruentX and a community Technology Evangelist Delivering Edge Experiences Using Microsoft Dynamics 365, Azure & Power Platform (Power BI, PowerApps & Power Automate) & Office 365

Join me at CRMUG Summit 2014!

        It’s that time of year again, when all the CRM User base gets together for the biggest CRM user group event of the year. CRMUG Summit is a great place to learn, network and do all things CRM! Some details to the event can be found here. If you’re attending, see […]

CRM 2015 has been announced. Fall Release 2014.

Before you say not again!, CRM 2015 has been announced and should be available by years end. From my initial testing, I can tell you we have reached a very stable, almost turning point with our common CRM platform. Now, like the ERP systems, we are going to see functionality enhancements not system re-designs, while […]

Upgrade from CRM 2011 to 2013 fails with “Subquery returned more than 1 value. Not Permitted CRM 4.0″

We recently stumbled upon an issue when upgrading a customer from CRM 4.0 to CRM 2013. As is required, you must first upgrade the 4.0 database to 2011 and then from 2011 to 2013. The 4.0 to 2011 upgrade succeeded without error but threw an error when going from 2011 to 2013. 2013 was on […]

Cloud Offerings: A Gartner Prospective and Concerto Recommendation!

Tribridge has been selected as one of the cloud partners doing Cloud Right. Tribridge’s Concerto Cloud has also won Microsoft Dynamics ISV of the year 2013!  Learn more about the report here! [gview file=”http://cognettacloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/CloudOfferings-Gartner-Perspective.pdf”] More about Tribridge’s Concerto Private Cloud.. http://www.concertocloud.com/  

CRM 2013 Upgrade Flurry has Started! Upgrade Checklist

Microsoft has begun switching over many of our Microsoft Dynamics CRM customers to CRM 2013. Here’s some things you should know about the overall process: 1. Ensure you have another environment (test/dev) that matches your CRM production setup. This is a best practice by far. Not having a test environment, makes troubleshooting and changes in […]

CRM 2013: Graphical Understanding of the New License Model

We have been fielding a ton of questions in regards to the new Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Licensing Model. I thought it would be helpful to share some licensing details: So we have three new license types along with new costs.  Specially around costs, lets talk about two great new options INCLUDED with the new […]

CRM 2011 Outlook Client: Disable Mapi Caching not working after UR 14

CRM 2011 Dynamics Customers testing and deploying update Rollup 14, have noticed that performance issues resolved in Outlook Client have returned. The registry key for Disable Mapi Caching appears to be no longer be working (reintroduces poor outlook client performance). Microsoft Support has confirmed that the setting has now been moved to the OrgDbOrgSetting as follows: […]

ADFS 2.1 Mex Endpoint Errors with CRM 2011 & Windows Server 2012. Here’s your fix.

When you install ADFS on a Windows Server 2012, the built-in ADFS role included is ADFS 2.1. When setting up Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 (UR13+ required), you will get an error message that tells you that IFD Authentication fails when trying to access the discovery service by external applications. Apparently the documentation for update UR13 says this has been […]