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CRM 2011 Plugins – Obtaining Organization Information
Roshan Mehta, 16 April 2013
Developers can use the IPluginExecutionContext service object to obtain contextual information from the CRM platform which is passed to the plugin at run-time. It includes details about the user who triggered the plugin event as well as transactional information handled at the platform layer. In thi
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CRM 2011 Plugins – Obtaining User Information
Roshan Mehta, 14 April 2013
Developers can use the IPluginExecutionContext service object to obtain contextual information from the CRM platform which is passed to the plugin at run-time. It includes details about the user who triggered the plugin event as well as transactional information handled at the platform layer. In thi
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Instance Adapter – Part 5 – Mappings
Colin Maitland, 11 April 2013
In this blog I will discuss the options provided in the Microsoft Dynamics Connector for Mapping Destination fields. There are five options. The following screenshot shows the three most common options. A fourth option is to not Map selected Destination fields and a fifth option is to Map all
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Instance Adapter – Part 4 – Configure and Run a Simple Integration
Colin Maitland, 07 April 2013
In this blog I will describe how to create and run a simple integration between two Microsoft Dynamics CRM organisations for a custom entity called Country. 1. Open the Microsoft Dynamics Connector. 2. Open the Connector for Microsoft Dynamics. The New Integration screen will be dis
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CRM 2011 Plugins – IServiceProvider
Roshan Mehta, 03 April 2013
When a particular event occurs in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, such as “create of a contact” or “update of an account”, the Execute method is invoked for any plugins registered on the event. This method includes a single serviceProvider parameter which provides useful service info
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Dynamics CRM 2011 Email Router Errors Tracking Emails
Paul Nieuwelaar, 02 April 2013
#9628 - An error occurred while delivering the e-mail message with subject "subject" in mailbox example@email.com for delivery to http://localhost/org. We had an issue with one of our customers using the Email Router with CRM IFD where the router failed to connect to CRM using the localhost address.
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Instance Adapter – Part 3 – Connector Configuration
Colin Maitland, 24 March 2013
In this blog I will describe how to configure the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Instance Adapter for integrating two Microsoft Dynamics CRM organisations. Part 1 – Configure Microsoft Dynamics CRM User Accounts Ensure that you have the following user account in each of the Microsoft Dynami
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Dynamics CRM 2011 – Partner vs Vendor: Let’s Play Together
Jaime Smith, 21 March 2013
There is the old adage “no one cares what or how much you know, until they know how much you care”, it seems like a fluffy statement but it is pertinent to all human engagement - in my experience, it underpins any successful partnership! I am not talking about us being recognised as thei
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Instance Adapter – Part 2 – Connector Installation
Colin Maitland, 20 March 2013
In my previous blog I provided instructions for downloading the components required to install the Connector for Microsoft Dynamics and the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Instance Adapter. In this blog I will provide abbreviated/ annotated instructions, from the Connector for Microsoft Dyna
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Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes – Free eBook!
Greg Olsen, 19 March 2013
Spotted a blog post mention on Twitter today, which I thought I would re-post to my blog for future reference as it had some good info on Unit Testing well worth giving a plug for. Since I am a BIG fan of Test Driven Development (even with Microsoft Dynamics CRM – don’t let anyone t
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Features of Polaris in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011
Megha Kainth, 18 March 2013
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Polaris release has brought so many useful features to the users of Dynamics CRM. In this blog post I will give you an overview of the new features. Multiple browser support Polaris update has provided us the functionality of multiple browser support. Now yo
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CRM 2011 Automated Deployments – Backup Databases
Gayan Perera, 17 March 2013
Another time consuming task of deploying software updates is backing up existing application files, configuration files, databases etc etc which adds to the overall deployment time. These tasks can be automated. In this blog post we’ll look at automating the backup of CRM 2011 SQL databases be
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CRM 2011 Technical Debt – A real example
Gayan Perera, 14 March 2013
A few days ago I was listening to a talk on DotNetRocks.com by Gary Short where he talks about “Technical Debt”. Timing couldn’t be better; couple of weeks ago we started a large Dynamics CRM 4 to CRM 2011 upgrade. The original project was done by another vendor and the debt
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Configuring Dynamics CRM 2011 Online with Yammer - Live Demo
Paul Nieuwelaar, 13 March 2013
Check out my presentation from the March Auckland xRM/CRM User Group, where I demo how to configure Dynamics CRM 2011 online with Yammer. This live presentation includes: - What is Yammer? - Why you should use Yammer - What you need before performing the Integration - Config
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Instance Adapter – Part 1 - Downloads
Colin Maitland, 12 March 2013
Recently a new adapter for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, named the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Instance Adapter, has been released for use with the Connector for Microsoft Dynamics. The Connector for Microsoft Dynamics may be used to integrate/synchronise data between Microsoft Dynamics CRM
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