Dynamics CRM performance troubleshooting

03/03/2015 -

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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 tricks apply to CRM Online as well, so read on cloud customers.  Stating the obvious The first thing you’re going to need to understand is – *what is slow about your CRM and how have you measured that? *You are going to need…

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MacBook Pro with Retina Display Windows 8 RTM boot time

22/08/2012 -

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As a follow up to my earlier post about purchasing a MacBook Pro with Retina display, here is the video showing the Windows 8 boot time from a cold boot. About 24 seconds from hitting the power button to the display of the log on screen. Then after logging on I’m able to shut down and complete the entire exercise in less than a minute. …

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SharePoint weird delay on first load

15/08/2011 -

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Are you seeing ridiculous delays in your SharePoint web app spinning up with little activity on the server? Is it take over 2 minutes to display the first page after an app pool recycle? Does your server have access to the internet? No? This will cause delays when a signed piece of .NET code runs Every time some managed .NET code tries to run, the .NET Framework is trying to contact crl.microsoft.com. Now if your server is offline (think VM on a laptop on a plane), or your server doesn’t have ac…

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