PowerMailChimp – The Newest PowerPack add-on integrates MailChimp with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

PowerMailChimp is an awesome new way to send email campaigns directly from Microsoft Dynamics CRM. We have heard time and time again, “It would be great if I could send and track our marketing emails directly from CRM.” So, we

Posted in Addons, CRM 2011

Webcast – Why Attend Convergence 2012?

You've heard about Convergence but maybe you just don't really know what it is or why you should attend? Join Deb Victor of PowerObjects on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CST to find out how you

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Report Drill-thru action to CRM Record

A cool capability of Microsoft Dynamics CRM reporting is to add an action to open a CRM record from a report. Not only is this cool from a CRM Superhero perspective but can save you time and mouse clicks. In

Posted in CRM 2011, Development

Thinking about moving Microsoft Dynamics CRM in the cloud? Need some incentive?

If you currently have a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 On-Premise implementation, you may want to take a serious look at this current incentive by Microsoft and sweetened by PowerObjects to move Microsoft Dynamics CRM in the cloud. For a limited

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Update Rollup 5 – Features Overview

In late October, Q4 2011 Service Update (also known as CRM 2011 Update Rollup 5 or UR5) was published and is the first release of Microsoft’s new program to rollout new Dynamics CRM 2011 features on a twice yearly basis.

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Add Announcements to the Dashboard in CRM 2011

Announcements have been in Microsoft Dynamics CRM for years, but few companies really leveraged them because if users didn’t set their homepage to the announcement screen, they never saw the notices. The advent of Dashboards has changed the game significantly

Posted in Customizing

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, Update Rollup 5 and Charts

The Update Rollup 5 has brought many amazing features and improvements to MS Dynamics CRM 2011, and one of those amazing improvements has come to the wonderful world of charts! Charts are one aspect of any program that provide a

Posted in Customizing

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Update Rollup 5 – Add Hyperlinks to Email Notifications via Workflow

Have you ever received an email notification from Dynamics CRM and wanted to access that record immediately instead of having to go find it within MS CRM? Another great new feature in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Update Rollup 5 is

Posted in CRM 101, CRM 2011

A recent error message and a quick fix

We recently came across an issue where a relatively new Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 environment could not import any solution.  The ambiguous error message was ‘You do not have the necessary permissions to change the domain logon name for this

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What I Like about Being a PowerObjects Client

Editor’s Note: The following guest post is by Jack Boyer, President, Boyer & Associates Besides always knowing the answers right away to my CRM questions? As a Minneapolis-based ERP consulting firm focused on Microsoft products, Boyer & Associates has worked

Posted in CRM 2011