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Dynamics CRM Advanced Find Layout Problem Solved

Have you ever had a problem with the Advanced Find page not rendering properly, where it looks like this? How to fix * In your browser, hit F12 * Find the Console tab, and type: * localStorage.clear() * Press enter You will get a response 'undefined', like so: Now go back to the

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CRM Online Form Editor Drag and Drop Problem IE11 Fixed

If you’re using Dynamics CRM Online with Internet Explorer 11 you might find that the drag and drop of fields doesn’t work in the form editor. A lot of people revert to using Chrome forform editing as a workaround, but if you simply add the CRM site

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MB2-706 exam passed - Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Deployment

Last week I sat and passed theMB2-706 – Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Deployment exam. Only advice I can give is to be familiar with the CRM Implementation Guide [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45022], and if you’ve got access to PartnerSource this eLearning material [https:

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Dynamics CRM Exchange Server Side Synchronisation Troubleshooting

I recently had to assist a client troubleshoot their Dynamics CRM 2013 and Exchange 2010 server-side synchronization configuration which was not working in one of their environments. We were attempting to use impersonation so that the CRM Async Service account could synchronise mailboxes for CRM users. We kept getting Http

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There are too many active security negotiations or secure conversations at the service. Please retry later.

If you’ve got a load balanced Dynamics CRM on premises installation be careful how you configure the load balancer. An incorrect setting can limit the capacity of your system. During load testing of a client’s Dynamics CRM environment we encountered a problem where the CRM web services appeared

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Microsoft Dynamics Compatibility

This is one of those posts for my own bookmarking benefit – the following links give you the detailed breakdown on compatibility with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 / 2013 / 2015. Compatibility with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3005163] Compatibility with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 [https://support.microsoft.

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Dynamics CRM performance troubleshooting

If you’ve got a Dynamics CRM 2011 / 2013 / 2015 on premise installation that isn’t performing the way you (or your users) think it should then this article gives you information on how to diagnose where the problem(s) lie and some suggested solutions. Some of these tips and

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Rich powerful note taking with OneNote

I really love OneNote and have used it for years. Which is why I’ve just added a guide to OneNote [http://freemiumtools.com/collaboration/rich-powerful-note-taking-with-onenote/] on FreemiumTools.com [http://freemiumtools.com].

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Azure website - how to change web hosting plan

In Windows Azure Websites Microsoft have introduced a concept called a web hosting plan. This allows you to control a group of websites all at once and makes for changing their hosting settings easier. The problem is, they haven’t yet introduced a way through the Portal to change the

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Dynamics CRM 2013 and Tablet apps

A couple of weeks ago Microsoft released apps for Windows 8 tablets [http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-gb/app/microsoft-dynamics-crm/93772212-7b72-4aee-bc4e-b1adb7712ebe] , iPad [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-dynamics-crm/id678800460?mt=8] and even Android [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.crm.crmhost&hl=en] for

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Pop-up labs in Windows Azure

I recently came across these two [http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Building-a-SharePoint-2010-Pop-up-Lab-in-Windows-Azure] excellent videos [http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Automating-the-pop-up-and-pop-down-process-of-a-Windows-Azure-SharePoint-Pop-up-Lab] about the concept of a pop-up lab in Windows Azure using the IaaS approach of provisioning your own virtual machines. The “pop-up” part of this is that the lab is

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CRM 2011 and Windows Server 2012

The excellent Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Implementation Guide has recently (15 May 2013) been updated to version 5.9 and now includes information about support for running Dynamics CRM 2011 on Windows Server 2012, and upgrading an existing installation of Dynamics CRM 2011 to Windows Server 2012. One key thing

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CRM Advanced Find – Related entities missing

In Dynamics CRM 2011 you can create a Many to Many relationship between entities. This is great for associating entities to multiple reference data items – for example Projects to Project Locations, or Orders to Products. When you go to filter an Advanced Find by this related entity you may find

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Windows 8 – two months on

So I’ve been using Windows 8 RTM for 2 months now, it’s probably a good time to reflect. Prior to installing Windows 8 I had grave reservations about the Metro UI. While I was keen to try I knew that it was going to be a disruptive user

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TechEd - Application Hosting Models in SharePoint 2013

Shyam Narayan (@dotnetbounce [https://twitter.com/dotnetbounce]), a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer took us through the approaches to application hosting in SharePoint 2013. Application Identity models in SP2013 * SP2010 provided two models for custom code – Full Trust and Sandboxed * Apps in SP2013 now have their own identity * Fine grained permissions

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TechEd - Building Responsive Web Applications with MVC4, WebAPI and HTML5

This session was presented by Brendan Kowitz (@brendankowitz [https://twitter.com/brendankowitz]) a Senior Developer from Readify and covered building responsive mobile web applications with MVC4, WebAPI and HTML5. Overview * Building a great user experience * Data + WebAPI * Going offline * Packaging Why responsible mobile web applications? * Responsive, fluid usage, respond to

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TechEd: Real world SharePoint Customisation - IT Pro v Developer

In this session Jeremy Thake [https://twitter.com/jthake] and Mark Rhodes [https://twitter.com/mrhodes] took us through both sides of SharePoint customisation, pitting developers against IT pros. Jermey started by taking us through a common scenario – the blame game. Customised SharePoint performs slowly, devs are guilty until they

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TechEd - Building Robust Windows Azure Applications with P&P Guidance

This session was presented byMahesh Krishnan from Readify (@MaheshKrishnan [https://twitter.com/MaheshKrishnan]) and focused on building robust Windows Azure apps, but in particular the benefits of elasticity. To me one of the most appealing things about cloud based apps is the ability to scale up / down as needed

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TechEd - FIM Best Practices

This was a great session from Carol Wapshere [http://www.wapshere.com/missmiis/] MVP (@miss_miis [https://twitter.com/@miss_miis]) about the essential ingredients of a successful identity management project using FIM – Microsoft ForeFront Identity Manager. The current latest and greatest is FIM 2010 R2 and it has the

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TechEd - Introduction to SharePoint 2013

Before attending this session I had downloaded and installed a preview of SharePoint 2013 and had a bit of a play with it. But this session was very helpful and well presented. The first part of the presentation was about My Sites and social features in SP2013. The My Sites

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TechEd - Introduction to Windows Azure websites

I confess I haven’t kept up with the latest on Windows Azure websites, so attending the AZR212 session – Introduction to Windows Azure websites was well worth it. Some interesting things I learnt about the whole Azure platform for websites: * It’s not just for .NET, you can run PHP

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Microsoft TechEd 2012–Australia

I’m fortunate enough to be attending Microsoft TechEd 2012 on the Gold Coast, Australia. The first session I attended was all about Windows Server 2012. Microsoft are pretty pumped about this release and had customer video testimonials talking about how different it was from anything we’ve seen before.

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Microsoft support for jQuery

Good to see Microsoft throwing their support [http://stephenwalther.com/blog/archive/2010/03/16/microsoft-jquery-and-templating.aspx] behind jQuery [http://www.jquery.com/] and committing resources to developing for it. Also interesting to see their proposal for including templating in the core of jQuery [http://www.jquery.com/]. I currently

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Microsoft release app for Android – Tag Reader

So apparently Microsoft have released their first app for the Android platform, which is similar to their app for the iPhone – Tag (via Android Community [http://androidcommunity.com/microsoft-releases-first-app-for-android-platform-20100304/] ). They’ve also released this same app for BlackBerry, Symbian and J2ME platforms. Why would they do this? It’s not