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Cross browser and CRM Mobile
Today Dennis Michalis, General Manager of Dynamics CRM at Microsoft announced that in Q2 2012 a service update of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 will include cross browser functionality to allow users on...
View ArticleRunning Microsofts Demo VPC on Windows 7
Running Microsofts CRM Demo VPC (Available on Partnersource) on Windows 7 is a bit problematic but can be done. I found a good blog that showed how it can be done using VirtualBox but there were some...
View ArticleFinding the TCP port for Dynamic Excel Export
The dynamic Excel export functionality of Dynamics CRM is a real killer functionality. I often get standing ovations from users, especially managers, when showing dynamic pivot table functions of CRM,...
View ArticleAdvanced find and Many to Many (N:N) in CRM 2011
I had a discussion today with a potential customer regarding a part of the functionality of advanced find that I thought I might share as it is not so obvious.In Dynamics CRM 4, it is not possible,...
View ArticleWorkflow activities in CRM Online!
Custom workflow activities are one of my favorite extension points of CRM. The power workflows gives the customers are great as they can easily change the content of outgoing emails, todos etc. With...
View ArticleSwedish IRS hacked - shows glitch in responsibilies of online services for...
There is currently rather a lot of media in Sweden about a computer system hosted by a larger Software Integrator outsourced by the Swedish IRS. This system was hacked and about 9000 client accounts...
View ArticleProblems uploading customizations/solutions can be due to large Templates...
Today I am working with a customer who has used other CRM consultants previously. It is always interesting. In this case the QA/testing environment was not up to date and wasn't acutally working at...
View ArticleGetting the CRM url for Silverlight based on the browser
When creating Silverlight applications the normal method of retrieving the url for the CRM server that will be used to connect to the REST endpoint is usually based on the CRM url that is stored in the...
View ArticleManaged or unmanaged solutions - and how to remove attributes from managed...
My colleague Rickard and I are working with one of our customers who have gotten managed to get themselves into a rather big mess with huge numbers of attributes on the account entity that should not...
View ArticleUnsupported customizations
Unsupported customizations are certain customizations that fall outside of what is supported by Microsoft when developing and customizing for Dynamics CRM. Several aspects of this subject can be...
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Migration strategies
Migrations are often complicated and not very sexy, all the work you put into it, configuration, scripts and code will be more or less useless after the migration has been done. However, choosing the...
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MVP Award
Today I was awarded the MVP status for Dynamics CRM! I am very grateful for this award and it is thanks to all of you who read my blog and value what I write that this was at all possible. So first of...
View ArticleRickard's blog
My colleague Rickard Norström, who is a very skilled Dynamics CRM developer and consultant has finally started his own blog. Make sure you add it as he has many interesting perspectives on Dynamics CRM...
View ArticleSocial Roadmap for Dynamics CRM
Today I watched an interview on CRMSoftware.TV with David Pennington, Director of Product Marketing for Dynamics CRM where he talks about where Microsoft is headed in terms of social functionality.You...
View ArticleMore swedish CRM blogger
There seems to be a nice trend of lot of new CRM bloggers here in Sweden. I think this is great, mercantilism always has to give way to free trade! Even more so in the information era.Alan Varcoe, a...
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Performance analysis of Dynamics CRM
Today I was helping a customer out that have experienced rather bad performance of the CRM system.They described the performance as being bad in Europe (the server being hosted in Sweden), it was quite...
View ArticleContent thieves
There are many bloggers in the CRM community and in just the latest few months, several new CRM blogs have been started here in Sweden. I think this is great as experience sharing will make us all...
View ArticleCRM Techie AW
Creating a CRM community in Sweden has long been a goal of mine why I am very happy to report that we the first community meeting finally has taken place. In hotel Anglais next to Stureplan in...
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MVP Book here + syndication of blog
Today I received my two copies of the CRM Field Guide! A real monster book written by no less than 19 of my fellow CRM MVP:s. It is truly a great book with indepth chapters regarding many of the areas...
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Creating quotes in word
I really love CRM but as with all things you love, there are also areas where there are areas of improvement. One of these areas concerning Dynamics CRM is the functionality to create quotes by sending...
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