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Update Rollup 11 released for CRM 4.0

Microsoft has released Update Rollup 11 for CRM 4.0 and can be downloaded from the following link:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981328

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Microsoft’s xRM Showcase Challenge

 

xRM Showcase Challenge is a contest for solutions built with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. This is a great for us to show our creativity and expertise with Microsoft Dynamics CRM and share this with the CRM community.

The xRM Showcase Challenge is open for voting and we have submitted three solutions created by PowerObjects.

PowerHR

Whether you are [...]

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Using a CRM Workflow to “Complete” Activities in Bulk

One of the questions that seems to always come up when speaking to Customers about Activities in Dynamics CRM is “How can I close Activities without having to open each one?”

The answer is in two parts:

In a perfect world, CRM users will complete Activities as they are finished. Prior to completing the Activity, the [...]

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Optimizing CRM Performance…

Optimizing the overall performance of CRM is an important factor in providing your users the best CRM experience. Many times CRM users will complain that “CRM is Slow” or attribute CRM or Outlook performance issues to the CRM Application, when in reality the CRM application is actually functioning just fine. Since [...]

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You cannot merge these records.

When merging two records you get a message saying, “You cannot merge these records. Merging these records would create a circular reference.” This is because both records reference the other record in the same lookup field. An example would be Company A is set as the Parent Account for Company B, and [...]

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CRM website prompts with Active X error message

If Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Microsoft Office Outlook is installed but not configured, or if you are connecting to an organization other than the organization for which Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Microsoft Office Outlook is configured, you receive the following warning message in Internet Explorer: Internet explorer has blocked this site from using an ActiveX [...]

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Increase the Maximum Records exported to Excel

When exporting a large amount of records from CRM to Excel you will find that the maximum number of records that can be exported are limited to 10,000. 

By default, you can export a maximum of 10,000 records from Microsoft Dynamics CRM to an Excel worksheet by using the “Static worksheet with records from all pages [...]

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CRM Hotfix Auto Update: Part Deux

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, I wrote a blog describing the process one would go through if they wished to configure hotfix auto updates for Outlook clients on their CRM server. The process was painful: we had to extract the contents of the hotfix file and do some hunting to [...]

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Microsoft CRM Bit Field onChange() Event Not Firing As Expected

I recently encountered some difficulty  firing a JavaScript event off when a bit field was marked as True. The following code worked fine when the bit field was a radio button on the form, but the event would not fire until I tabbed out of the field when I had the bit field formatted as [...]

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Do You Want To View Only the Webpage Content That Was Delivered Securely?

Depending on how your browser in configured, you may see the message above when you attempt to access a custom page in your CRM system. This is caused by a change in the security level of the pages in the system. If you are using HTTPS for your system and have (for example) an IFRAME [...]

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