SnapShot! v1.9 is now available. The following changes have been made in this release: 1. An Active? column has been added to the Users list to indicate that the user is enabled or disabled. 2. A User Count column have been added to the Security Role, Business Unit, and Team reports. 3. A new column […]
Continue readingThere are occasions which some of us may experience during or shortly after the upgrade of a Dynamics CRM 4.0 system to CRM 2011 where we discover we have plugins that cannot be removed by the Plugin Registration Tool. Most of the time this is caused by the plugin being registered as "on disk" and […]
Continue readingThere are occasions which some of us may experience during or shortly after the upgrade of a Dynamics CRM 4.0 system to CRM 2011 where we discover we have plugins that cannot be removed by the Plugin Registration Tool. Most of the time this is caused by the plugin being registered as "on disk" and […]
Continue readingI am a big fan of the Simplified Connection technology added by the Xrm.Client assembly and use it almost exclusively. Recently, I ran into the same issue at two separate customers. Both had just converted from CRM 4.0 and both had plugins and custom ASP.NET web pages in use. Occasionally, the following exception would be […]
Continue readingIn a word: NO. I recently added the JavaScript date library Date.js to an installation to get some date calculation functionality. It worked great but totally broke the CRM date controls. After much troubleshooting and some helpful advice from my friend Tanguy, I realized Date.js was incompatible with CRM and I had to remove it […]
Continue readingContracts within Dynamics CRM can sometimes be a little peculiar to work with. Case in point: You must have at least one Contract Detail record associated with the contract in order to make it function properly. The issue there is that some companies don’t actually care about detail lines, but they have to have them […]
Continue readingContracts within Dynamics CRM can sometimes be a little peculiar to work with. Case in point: You must have at least one Contract Detail record associated with the contract in order to make it function properly. The issue there is that some companies don’t actually care about detail lines, but they have to have them […]
Continue readingThis may not be possible in all organizations or situations but if you can, do the following: 1. Restart the SQL Server 2. On the CRM web server, perform an IISRESET. This gives us a clean environment with which to work and can make the upgrade process much faster.
Continue readingBefore you begin the actual upgrade process to upgrade a CRM 4.0 instance to CRM 2011, make sure you have all of the resources required to complete the task. Here are a few things that might stop or delay you: Active Directory Access Make sure you have the proper permissions to the Organizational Unit […]
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