Update: Added Rollup 3For quite a long time Aaron Elder has posted the build numbers for Dynamics CRM. Unfortunately the rollups had not been included in his list yet, though I needed to check on a system which rollup had been installed. You can check that by using the SQL Management Studio and execute the query:select * from BuildVersion"This will return the current version of CRM. When you have
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Friday, 23 January 2009
Error messages in CRM
Posted on 05:31 by Unknown
CRM does give you error messages every now and then. The message is usally in the format of "0x12345678". The numbers do not tell much, but the corresponding error message do help you definitely. These error messages are given in the SDK and on a lot of places on the internet, but there the "0x" has been removed from the error message. Here is the same list as which is listed in the SDK, but now
Tuesday, 20 January 2009
Microsoft Surface
Posted on 06:58 by Unknown
Until now I've had a hard time in getting my mind around a real business case where you would be able to use the Microsoft Surface table. Today I got an email message of one of my colleagues who pointed me at a YouTube movie which does show a good business example for the Financial Market. What ideas do you have for using Surface in conjunction with CRM?
Duplicate process check
Posted on 02:46 by Unknown
If you are creating your own integration module for CRM, then it is very wise to make sure that the process is running only once. For performance reasons you can decide to split the process in multiple threads, but running a single process multiple times can cause quite some unforseen issues.The following code snippet will allow you to check if an application with the same name is running
Friday, 16 January 2009
Use PreFiltering in Reports downloaded through Webservice
Posted on 05:45 by Unknown
In my previous post I discussed a Mail-merge alternative: Reports exporting to Word files. The reports downloaded in that approach do not support any pre filtering as CRM reports would allow you to set. It would be great if that can be set as well. This post describes how to do that.The reports created in CRM or for CRM do support the prefiltering. In custom created reports this is added by
Mail-merge alternative: Reports exporting to Word files
Posted on 05:11 by Unknown
CRM 4.0 does offer a lot of new features regarding mail merge, but not all situations are supported by the new features. You can look into 3rd party tools like C360 / MSCRM-Addons or Temptus Wordconnect, but a totally different approach is to use the Reporting Services. This post will dive into how to use Reporting Services to generate word documents.You can create any report in CRM by using the
Log In Name and Password required by Report Server
Posted on 04:44 by Unknown
You can view the CRM reports in Reporting Services by browsing to http://YourReportingServer/ReportServer/. There you should select your organization, select 4.0 and select a report. At that moment you might be asked for a Log In Name and a Password as seen in the image.This behavior appears when you have installed the SRS Data Connector because your deployment contains a separate server for SQL.
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