Microsoft has begun switching over many of our Microsoft Dynamics CRM customers to CRM 2013. Here’s some things you should know about the overall process: 1. Ensure you have another environment (test/dev) that matches your CRM production setup. This is a best practice by far. Not having a test environment, makes troubleshooting and changes in […]
A co-worker of mine was testing a CRM 2011 On Premise implementation where he had recently updated to rollup 12/13. He started to notice that the ribbon bar was completely missing! My first response was to clean out your cache, and try it from another machine, as well as use the IE Private Browsing […]
Installing CRM 2011 on Windows Server 2012 requires to use the Microsoft Self healing Process – manual patch that you download from the Windows Catalog. I searched all over and had a hard time finding it. Thanks to my good friend Corey Hanson at Microsoft for providing a direct link to the patch. The patch […]
There has been a lot of confusion on what is available in the UR12 / December 2012 AKA Polaris Release. The first thing to understand is that the new Process Flow UI is only in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. The cross browser functionality is available with both Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 On Premise and Online Releases, along with some […]
The home realm URL issue is introduced when we attempt to add another active directory or claims provider for a domain outside our cloud domain to create single sign on. (SSO). Microsoft Internet Explorer has the ability to support this and we have no issues connecting via the browser. However, Microsoft Outlook as well as […]
Microsoft has just released the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Instance Adapter (also know as the multi-instance adapter). For those of you that wanted to sync your Production Dynamics CRM 2011 to other environments like DEV, QA this tool is what you have been waiting for! Additionally, Global Deployment options allowing you to sink individual organizations […]
CRM 2011 ADFS comes with a unqiue feature: Auto-Rollover for SSL Certification expiration. You must load the new SSL certificate on the box prior to the Auto-Rollover. We are finding out this might be as automatic as once thought. If your ADFS console looks like the following and your CRM is not working the steps […]
A colleague of mine, David Pritchett, passes along this time saving tip when you have problems importing solutions and receive the error message as below: The error message turns out to be related to the user not have rights to the directory shown below: Once the user has rights, the solution will import correctly. […]