Goals Management is a key feature in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. At first glance this feature may seem complex to understand and configure, however, a brief investment of time into understanding Goal Management in Microsoft Dynamics CRM will provide a beneficial return. In this series of blogs I wi
Read the full article hereYou may receive the error: Failed to find Windows Identity Foundation setup package When attempting to configure Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 for Outlook to connect to your CRM organisation as shown below. When you click on the View the Log File link, the error log reports the following
Read the full article hereImplementing a new technology into your business brings significant change and cost to the organisation. How can you ensure that the software you have chosen is the best fit and offers the best return on investment? As the old saying goes…”prevention is better than cure&rdq
Read the full article hereOne of the great things about Microsoft Dynamics CRM is the ability to track relationships between different entities in the system. This allows users to see a 360 degree view of customers to perform timely follow-up and establish better relationships with the people that matter most. In this blog,
Read the full article hereThis is another issue we faced with an upgrade of CRM 4 to CRM 2011. The system had an old CRM 4 plugin that got automatically upgraded and it worked fine before IFD was configured but once IFD was configured it crashed with the following message: The underlying connection was closed: Could not esta
Read the full article hereMicrosoft Dynamics CRM has encountered an error. Please tell Microsoft about this problem. Send Error Report, or Don’t Send. If you receive a lot of errors like this while using Dynamics CRM 2011, you may already know that you can change your personal options to automatically send these
Read the full article hereHere’s a quick tip, if you’ve configured Dynamics CRM 2011 to use SSL (e.g. for IFD) and you have users who are still on IE8 you’ll notice that IE8 doesn’t cache the secure responses. Therefore each time you open a form it’ll make 100-200 requests! It also brings anothe
Read the full article hereThe greatest risk of CRM project failure is to tackle too many business processes or too much functionality at once. It can be like trying to eat an elephant at one sitting. It can overwhelm end-users. I recommend a strategy of incremental improvement: start small, achieve some successful ou
Read the full article hereWe recently implemented IFD for a large customer, due to various constraints and issues with the outlook connector we decided to leave the existing CRM 4 connector on the client machines and then push the url changes through GPO directly into the registry. However when we did this the CRM 4 outlook
Read the full article hereDashboards are a very popular feature in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and allow users to analyse data quickly through visualizations. These visualizations include charts, lists (views), web resources, and iFrames. In this blog, we will take a look at some of the pros and cons of dashboards and their
Read the full article hereIn Dynamics CRM 2011, to qualify a lead we must use the out-of-the-box ‘Qualify Lead’ method where you select to qualify or disqualify the lead, then if you choose to qualify, you can select which records to create (Contact, Account, and Opportunity). This process works well if you are u
Read the full article hereThe Product Catalog in Microsoft Dynamics CRM is used to define Products and Pricing for use with Campaigns, Customers, Opportunities, Quotes, Orders, and Invoices. Users may add products from Price Lists or add Write-In products to an Opportunities, Quotes, Orders and Invoices. They may also overri
Read the full article hereOur development team has been working on an API to pull and push data to and from a large system built on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 platform. The API would be used to present data in JSON format to make it easy for a website to display the information in a user-friendly manner. It would also a
Read the full article hereI recently demonstrated how you can convert a managed solution into an unmanaged one at TechED 2012. If you missed it, catch it on Channel9 (http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NewZealand/TechEd-New-Zealand-2012/DYN401). Couple of things to note when using this method; once you run this SQL scri
Read the full article hereIn this series of blogs I have been writing about pricing products using the features of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Product Catalog. In my previous blog I wrote about Customer specific Price Lists. In this blog I will be writing about Campaign specific Price Lists and how they are used when con
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