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CRM 2013 Add-in for Outlook 2013 - does not work, at all

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So got a brand new laptop with Win8, I patched it up and upgraded to Win8.1, patched it all up.  Then updated drivers, before installing Office 365 and a few other programs.  Everything working fine for about a month.  Then the other day my CRM 2013 Online add-in for Outlook just completely stopped.  Everything greyed out.  Could not sign in or out, could not go offline.  It just decided to completely stop.  Searched around and no fix.  So uninstalled it, then downloaded and installed the latest release (had it anyway).  Now it still won't work, but even worse it won't even configure.

I choose CRM Online, enter my credentials and it finds my organisation.  So I select my company from the drop down list, and hit OK.  Instant error message saying it cannot connect.  Hang on, didn't it just connect and pull down my organisation name from the cloud?

Searched around, tried a few "solutions", turns out there is no fix available.  So stuck working on the CRM website, not a fun experience.  Plus all my jobs in the service calendar are now, for all practical purposes, invisible to me as they don't sync to my Outlook calendar. Ha anyone at MS actually tried using the CRM Mobile app for day to day work?  Awful.

So, can someone at MS either a) fix the completely Outlook broken add-in, or b) make your cloud CRM talk to your cloud Office/Exchange.  At your earliest convenience please as I really need to get some work done.

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    Remon Profile Picture
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    Hello Burnardburns,

    CRM 2013 Client for Outlook is NOT Supported on Windows 8.1 at the time of writing...

    This will become available at the release of UR2 (most likely to be release soon).

    support.microsoft.com/.../2919956

    Greetz,

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    35 on at

    Thank you for the information re: UR2.   It's pretty outrageous that the latest release of CRM doesn't work with MS own latest OS and browser....

    Anyway, I did manage to get it working.  I basically did a clean/full uninstall of the Addin - i.e. cleared registry entries, program files, appdata...there is an article on the various locations including clearing temp.  Also removed the MS Online Services Sign-in Assistant.  Then restarted laptop.

    So, I then installed the latest version of the CRM Outlook addin, it complained that it needed the sign-in assistant. Downloaded and installed latest version of sign-in assistant.  Boom, fixed!  It instantly started working.

    Please bear in mind that I previously reinstalled the Sign-In Assistant and Addin, and I was already running the latest versions of both the addin and the sign-in assistant.  The only thing that now comes to mind that may have caused this was that I recently updated the sign-in assistant to the latest version.  So apparently you can install the assistant after you install the addin....but you cannot update it as the addin suddenly can't utilise it.

    The fix in brief for anyone else....remove Outlook addin and Sign-In Assistant - properly, cleanly shift all traces of addin.  Restart.  Download and install latest addin, then latest sign-in assistant.  Install in that order.

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