Microsoft just released the preview guide for the scheduled Q2 2012 service update. Some of the exciting features expected to be a part of this release are: 1.) CRM Anywhere (Cross-Browser Support): This would include support for Safari, Mozilla, Chrome and any other browser supporting java script. 2.) Official SQL Server 2012 Support: Microsoft CRM…
Customer address entity in CRM 2011 stores all the addressed for contacts and accounts. I recently got a requirement to create all address fields on opportunity and a custom entity. Customer also wanted to populate these addresses based on a address lookup similar to the option on quote,order and invoice entity. I wanted to do…
Update Rollup 6 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 has just released and is available for download. Note that CRM Online Orgs will be updated with UR6 sometime in Feb/Mar due to some infrastructure changes that will be implemented at the same time. There is no issue running UR6 now on CRM Outlook Clients connected to…
Just found a very interesting feature added to CRM 2011 Outlook Client. Users can now perform conditional formatting on views while working from their outlook and share them with other users. This can be useful while analysing large amount of data for auditing. This video will demonstrate the feature.
There are lot of new functionalities added to CRM 2011 which were missing in CRM 4.0. This summary will help technical consultant and pre sales managers to convince their clients to upgrade their Microsoft Dynamics CRM system. 1.) Dashboards: Previously clients were using 3rd party software like Dundas or ZAP to create dashboards adding extra…
Microsoft has released Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server 2011 which fixes lot of issues pertaining to overall developer experience as described in Knowledge Base article 2547347 . This updates is available for the following under release 5.0.9688.1244. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Server Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 for Microsoft Office Outlook Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 E-mail Router…
I was trying to write a mail merge tempelate for incident and noticed that incident does not appear in the list for Associated Entity while creating a template. For all custom entities, mail merge is enable by default but for system entities. If you don’t see the entity name in the dropdown, follow these steps:…
I developed a Silverlight App for CRM2011 and deployed the XAP & HTML file as a web resource. While trying to view the HTML page, I got the following error: unhandled Error in Silverlight 2 Application Code: 2103 Category: InitializationError Message: Invalid or malformed application: Check manifest After looking through all posts online including msdn blogs, every…
You created a custom view for reports and when you click on this item, Grid throws an error saying input string was not in correct format. You turn on the tracing and find the stack trace as below: System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info) at Microsoft.Crm.Application.Controls.ReportsGridUIProvider.RenderRow at Microsoft.Crm.Application.Controls.AppGridUIProvider.Render at Microsoft.Crm.Application.Components.UI.DataGrid.RenderData …
Before starting reporting for CRM 2011 we need to verify that BIDS extension for 2011 beta is installed in the environment.Click here to download and install BIDS. There are more requirements which can be found in SDK topic “Create Custom Reports Using Business Intelligence Development Studio” After completing all the pre requisites, Follow these steps…