A customer of ours had come to us facing a rather interesting issue. Every night around 1am their CRM database log file would grow to 31GB and cause the log drive to fill up. When users would log into CRM in the morning, they would receive SQL errors stating that their transactions could not be […]
When importing an organization to CRM 2011 we came across an error during the import wizard process which was causing the import to fail: 14:54:33| Info| PublishReportsFromDatabase: Creating report in Reporting Services. ReportId: 9f973403-bc84-e111-88bc-0050569e0001, Name: INVOICE PAYMENTS 14:54:34| Error| Error while updating organization information: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. […]
Several-out-of-the-box entities in Dynamics CRM (including Case, Lead, and Opportunity) contain a field that represents a customer, which can either be an Account or a Contact. In CRM, these fields have the Customer data type, which is a special kind of lookup field for these two specific entities. Previously, system customizers couldn’t add a Customer […]
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Dynamics CRM 2016 Spring Wave. You can see the preview guide by click on the image! Enjoy! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/crm-customer-center/get-ready-for-the-next-release.aspx
Over the last few weeks my colleagues and fellow MVP’s have been working on a few CRM 2016 systems. Our general thought is that a lot of this code is from the CRM Online 2015 code base, and should really be production ready. However, the Microsoft CRM team has been hard at work delivering new […]
Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) creates and manages the two certificates used for the tokens issued. These are the Token-signing and Token-decrypting certificates. By default, these certificates are valid for one year from their creation and around the one-year mark, they will renew themselves automatically via the Auto Certificate Rollover feature in ADFS. Once this […]
With the release of CRM 2016 (2015 Update 1 for CRM Online), comes a new form rendering engine (referred to as Turbo Forms in some circles) was built to provide better performance of form loads. The two main changes are focused around loading process of the form and the handling of the cache. However, while […]
We recently setup CRM 2015 and ADFS 2.2 (the version that comes on Server 2012 R2, aka ADFS 2.2) on new servers for a customer. Everything configured fine and initial tests proved successful when logging in with the domain admin account used to set everything up. However, we quickly found an issue when other users […]
Jujhar Singh announced at Convergence EMEA at Azure Express Route is now available for CRM Online. Why is this important to you and your business? CRM online is public cloud. Azure Express Route will allow dedicated network connections from your MPLS network to CRM Online. This will dramatically help improve not only connectivity to CRM […]
As I look forward into the future and beyond 2016, I have taken notice of what Microsoft is doing with Azure, and how they are positioning their products CRM, AX and others to leverage Azure services. Many people think Azure is nothing more than a private cloud or Rackspace and Amazon competitor. They couldn’t be more wrong. A […]