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The blog is dedicated to using and developing CRM 2011.  It also keeps up to date with new tools and CRM industry information.<o:p></o:p>

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  • CRM 2011 – CRM Command Line Utility

    Posted 26 days ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    I saw this nice and simple command line utility today for CRM 2011, which you can access using the url below https://crmcommandline.codeplex.com Initially I wasn’t sure what the purpose of the command utility was, why would I want to access...

  • Installing and uninstalling DLL’s into the GAC

    Posted 1 month ago
    by Hosk Hosk
      There will probably come a time in every CRM developers life when they have to install a DLL into the GAC. The reason you might want to do this is so you code can access the dll’s and methods without having to have the DLL included with your...

  • Book review – Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Application Design

    Posted 1 month ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    I was given a free copy of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Application Design book by Mahender Pal who is one of the splendid CRM MVP’s that contribute a great deal to the CRM community. CRM books are usually either user manuals or maybe an Administrator...

  • CRM 2011 – Entity with no notes or activities!

    Posted 2 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    I had a strange request, a user was asking to add the Notes and Activities onto an entity. I never knew you could remove the notes and activities from an entity, so I went over to the entity to find the notes and activities cupboard was indeed bare. I...

  • CRM 2011 – plugins and isolation mode

    Posted 2 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    I had a frustrating afternoon the other week, when I wrote a simple plugin but the plugin was throwing an error in the first line of code. The plugin compiled without problem. In the end I took out all the code except for some logging statements but it...

  • Extending CRM 2011 study information and partner source links

    Posted 2 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    I am (still) studying for my the Extending CRM 2011.  The links below are for people who have access to partner source, reading the courses below and the CRM 2011 SDK should definitely prepare you for the exam. The courses will lead you to a site where...

  • CRM 2011 book released – Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Application Design

    Posted 2 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    I got this book today Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Application Design which is written by Mahender Pal who is a CRM MVP, this books should also help me with revision for Extending CRM 2011 exam I am studying for.   I will write a full review of the...

  • New Job at Ciber UK

    Posted 2 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    I have been quiet for a while and that’s because I have been mega busy because at the start of the year I started a new job. I am now a CRM consult at Ciber UK which is a CRM gold partner. I had a week of finding my feet and installing various software...

  • CRM 2011 – IFrame opening new page problem

    Posted 3 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    I had a tricky problem, where I wanted to show a grid of records on an entity which didn’t have a direct relationship with those records. Because there wasn’t a direct relationship I couldn’t show a grid of filtered records. The...

  • CRM 2011 – Error – You are attempting to create a user with a domain login which already exists

    Posted 4 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    A quick blog post for you today about a cheeky little error I experienced. I added a user onto the system and he had the naming convention of firstname.secondname e.g. homer.simpson Then later that day it was decided to use this naming system...

  • 2012 in review thanks to wordpress stats

    Posted 4 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 380,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would...

  • CRM 2011 – Tanguy toolbox for CRM 2011 and how to easily set up CRM SPN’s

    Posted 5 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    I read a couple of excellent blog posts today. Tanguy the CRM tool guy has made a toolbox to hold all of his CRM tools in http://mscrmtools.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/toolbox-for-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011.html Attribute Bulk Updater Iconator ...

  • CRM 2011 – Can you stop users exporting to Excel

    Posted 5 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    I was asked this question by a customer recently and although I was sure you could, I was set the task to confirm this. The setting can be found in Security Profiles and in the Business Management tab.  The setting can be turned on or off ...

  • CRM 2011 – SPN for service account not working

    Posted 5 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    I had setup CRM 2011 to run using a service account as good practise recommends (well actually you are meant to have separate accounts to run the different services I think). I have setup the service account but when I tried to call CRM from another...

  • CRM 2011 – Video Sales Stage Dates and workflows

    Posted 6 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    Here is an excellent video from the guys at Zero2Ten it runs through the sales stages and how to automatically add a date called sales stage date to an opportunity and have a workflow to automatically fill the value in. This means you can track when...

  • How to turn on Logging for the Dynamic Connector

    Posted 6 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    Sometimes you need to look at the logs of the connector because the initial error is not very descriptive and you need a few more clues. The logs are held in an unusual folder – ProgramData, which is often hidden from browsing, so you often have...

  • Get the right people on the bus

    Posted 6 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    It’s a bit of rambling friday post about the book Good to Great which I have been listening to. I read the blog of Mike Ames who is a business development coach and he recently had a very interesting guest blog post  http://mikeames.wordpress...

  • How to find number of usera connected to a SQL Server database

    Posted 6 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    I was having some intermittent problems with the connector.  When I turned on the connector it would soon be unable to connect to the SQL database. I was thinking it maybe be had something to do with the SQL server limiting connections. The code below...

  • How to find the number of users connected to a SQL Server database

    Posted 6 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    I was having some intermittent problems with the connector.  When I turned on the connector it would soon be unable to connect to the SQL database. I was thinking it maybe be had something to do with the SQL server limiting connections. The code below...

  • CRM 2011 – Outlook Synchronisation Process – who wins

    Posted 6 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    Someone asked me to explain exactly how the Synchronisation process worked from outlook to CRM. I wasn’t positive which records would be the last to update, I had a feeling it was the update with the latest time stamp but I wasn’t 100 percent...

  • Dynamic Connector – Client Hanging when viewing log files

    Posted 6 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    I had a frustrating few hours this morning when the Dynamic Connector client kept freezing, not responding before finally crashing. I seemed to be getting the error when trying to view the log files for some of the maps. I tried installing the Dynamic...

  • CRM 2011 – How to copy a workflow

    Posted 6 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    Today I needed to make a few workflows which were very similar to one I had already created. I looked around CRM but I couldn’t see any copy functionality or a sneaky save as in the workflow (which you can do with lists). I searched for the...

  • Dynamic Connector – When new/custom tables won’t add web services

    Posted 6 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    I have been working on a Dynamic Connector upgrade and one of the steps in the upgrade is you have to apply a hotfix.  These hotfix is for the Integration of Countries/Regions hotfix. I think this was to fix a problem that occurred because in NAV you...

  • CRM 2011 – CRM Developer Technical Skills

    Posted 6 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    Whilst studying for my Extending CRM 2011 exam and going through a chapter which details the different ways you can access the CRM data, it had a section with the title “Helpful Skills”, which basically details the technical knowledge/skills...

  • .Net 3.5 Sp1 Won’t install in Windows 8?

    Posted 6 months ago
    by Hosk Hosk
    When you start using windows 8 and installing some software you might find that things won’t work. The first classic problem is Windows Identity foundation 3.5 isn’t not enable Also you will find you can’t install software as easily...
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