When you're installing Dynamics CRM (this is CRM 2015 in my case), the Reporting Services check may fail with the above error. For some reason, when you install SQL reporting services (this is SQL 2014 in my case), it defaults to using SSL, even though I have no intention of using HTTPS, as this is
Read the full article hereWhen attempting to run applications that use the Dynamics CRM SDK in Azure Web Apps, you can get an exception when the app is trying to connect to CRM that looks like this: “ERROR: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: The data protection operation was unsuccessful. This may have been
Read the full article hereOne of our customers wanted to create multiple forms for a custom entity and automatically redirect the user to the correct form based on a certain field value. Microsoft already has introduced the navigate() method since version 2011. Unfortunately in CRM 2015 version 7.0, the navigate function doe
Read the full article hereYour CRM project doesn’t have to be like this! Magnetism has done many CRM projects that were on-time and on budget. But you will need to be intentional because in general, CRM projects are like most projects and most projects go over budget. In July 1997, the proposed new Scottish Parliament bui
Read the full article hereCRM charts are really useful for displaying data in a summarised format, giving users a very clear picture of their data. When designing a chart, you will set the 'Horizontal (Category) Axis Labels' This is a wordy way of of asking ‘What do you want to group things by’. For example, you may want to
Read the full article hereIn this blog I will demonstrate how Hierarchy Security can be used in Dynamics CRM to secure notes so they can only be accessed by the users who created and own them, and their managers. This can be achieved as follows: Update the Security Roles assigned to users so that they only have User Level R
Read the full article hereIn this article I will demonstrate the use of Capacity when using the Service Scheduling Engine in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. I will demonstrate this using the example of a Service for the delivery of a one day “Service Scheduling Training” course. This example is similar to a scenario demonstrated in
Read the full article hereWhen writing a plugin on the “Merge” message in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, there are three entities you need to work with – although the merge function in CRM is only performed on two records at a time. These are the “Master”, “Subordinate”, and “UpdateContent” entities. When a merge is performed, a t
Read the full article hereWhen editing option descriptions in an option set field, sometimes Dynamics CRM won’t let you delete the description if it already has contents. This can be problematic if you’ve mistakenly entered something into the description of an option and then need to remove it, as happened to me recently.
Read the full article hereIn large organisations with many users, data loss is likely to happen. This can occur when multiple users are updating the same record, which means that the changes one user makes can get overwritten by another user. Imagine two users receive customer support tickets from customers and take actions
Read the full article hereConcept of Webhooks Vend has its own REST APIs that can be called using .NET or any other platform. For example retrieving all customers by calling the /api/customers end point. However due to certain limitations, the Vend team introduced a new concept of accessing data via Webhooks. Webhooks are no
Read the full article hereCRM, Customer Relationship Management, is NOT primarily a software technology. Rather, CRM is a business strategy. Hence the rationale for implementing CRM must be because it is a good strategy for your organisation. Here is my working definition of CRM: “CRM is the business strategy to acqui
Read the full article hereRecently I did a data migration from Microsoft Dynamics CRM On-Premise to CRM Online using the SSIS integration toolkit. This tool is useful for migrating data between CRM instances without needing to export everything into Excel spread-sheets or write a console application. While migrating opportun
Read the full article hereEvery time I have to do something with activities in CRM it ends up taking way longer than expected. Unlike most entities in CRM, activities have a lot of unusual relationships and field types, not to mention all the behind the scenes processes which tend to not like when you introduce your own cust
Read the full article hereWhile performing a data migration between Dynamics CRM instances using the SSIS Integration Toolkit I encountered this error while attempting to migrate Accounts: Principal team (Id=xxx, type=9) is missing prvReadAccount privilege This error occurs because many of these Account records are owned by
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