If you have done any work with SSRS reports in CRM 2011 you will be familiar with the issues around getting reports to run in CRM Online. Most of these issues stem from the inability to use SQL to access the data, and the limitations of FetchXML. Thankfully there are almost always work-arounds, howe
Read the full article herePreviously I wrote about some of the predefined charts available in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 for monitoring Goal Progress. These charts cannot be recreated or modified using the Chart Designer in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. In this blog I will be providing instructions for modifying the Goal Pro
Read the full article hereThe following plugin can be registered on post-create of the Product entity, so that each time a Product is created in your Dynamics CRM 2011 system, a Price List Item is automatically generated for that product. The Price List Item will include the List Price defined on the Product. If you only ha
Read the full article hereUpdate: On the 17th of October 2012 Microsoft released Rollup 11 (with a re-release of the outlook client) which addresses this issue. You can download it from the link below. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34969 In August rollup 10 was released for Dynamics CRM 201
Read the full article hereOne of the primary ways in which Goal Progress is viewed in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is through the use of charts. There are several predefined charts provided for Goal Progress in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. These are: Goal Progress, Percentage Achieved and Todays’ Target vs. Actuals. The fol
Read the full article hereHere is another little tip for your IFD configuration. Once IFD is configured you need to remove the normal HTTP binding and leave just the HTTPS binding in IIS, otherwise you’ll start seeing the following errors in your trace logs. ClaimsAuthenticationEndpointBuilder: SSL-OffLoading has not
Read the full article hereWe built a custom Silverlight screen for one of our customers, which automatically opens when a record is opened. For some users however, the Silverlight screen would not open. The form loads fine, but the Silverlight just wouldn’t pop up. We tried reproducing this on our own computers, but co
Read the full article hereGoals 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
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