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Recently, we have had to move some customers from CRM 2011 Online to CRM 2011 On Premise. It turns out the upgrade was failing around the mapping users. It turns out that the CRM 2011 Online uses a field called Windowsliveid. This is basically used in place of the domain\login fields that are used on […]
While working on setting up an ADFS server farm, I was wondering how I can quickly tell if the ADFS server I was the primary computer. A quick review of an the ADFS Powershell Snapin provide a commmand to retrieve the ADFS role: get-adfssyncproperties Of course, if you open the […]
Using the Microsoft CRM 2011 Dynamics Outlook client, we detected a weird issue after applying Update Rollup 8. The issue appeared to be related to JSCRIPT on an activity form. After reviewing each activity types form for onload or onchange JScript, then disabling, the issue below was still appearing: The […]
Microsoft has just released Update Rollup 10 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. One of the main areas we have been testing with is within quick finds (searching) using the Outlook Client. To further explain, please understand that the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Outlook Client uses a completely different SQL query than its Web client counterpart prior to Update Rollup 7. This […]
A common error when upgrading or installing CRM 2011: This error can be resolved by modifying the existing SQL server installation. From Control panel, click add/remove programs, click on SQL Server installation, change/ add features. You will be prompted for the original install media so make sure you […]
http://crm.dynamics.com/en-us/roadmap Link to the CRM 2011 Q2 Release preview Guide http://crmpublish.blob.core.windows.net/docs/ReleasePreviewGuide.pdf
When importing solutions from other systems (particularly advanced systems with tons of custom entities) you will receive an error message not allowing the import of the solution. If you download and open the error message, in the XML you will see that optionset values (picklists) fail. Even more specifically, left over optionsets from CRM 1.0/1.2 […]
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Are you having problems resolving cases after CRM 2011? The key is in the error file, it states Allotment overage is invalid. This leads to the contractbase. When this data is upgraded from CRM 4 the values are NULL. CRM 2011 does not want the null value. Simply update the existing contractbase using the query […]