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Footings are the foundation for any structure even MSCRM

My neighbor recently jacked up his little cabin on blocks to build a new foundation for which to support his summertime home. It had been slowly lurching forward over the years and it was not going to be too long before it would have toppled into the lake. We have been watching him [...]

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PowerLog Video

Hey there – just a quick follow up post from an earlier one. We get people asking us all the time how they can track who is using the system and what they are doing when they do use it. We scratched our heads as it is not as easy as it would [...]

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Dynamics CRM 4.0 Client Update Rollup 8 Issue

After installing the UR8 client the rollup does not appear in the Add/Remove Programs.  This can occur on Vista or Windows 7 even if the user is a local administrator on the workstation.

To resolve this issue you will need to right-click on the UR8 install bits and choose to Run As Administrator.

This also applies to [...]

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CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 8 has been released

We are pleased to announce that Microsoft has released UR 8 for Dynamics CRM 4 has been released.

Download it from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c53b2916-6b93-4092-bdd3-a394c96ca000   Â

We’ll begin testing this weekend and will report our findings here in this blog.

Some of the included fixed in UR 8 include:

974529  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974529/ ) Some child records and related records are unexpectedly visible to the [...]

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Measuring Customer Satisfaction in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

At PowerObjects we have been busy with a little xRM application to measure our customer satisfaction (CSAT) inside of Dynamics CRM. When we started looking at the issue we first had to decide the timing of our survey and how long they should be — I don’t know about you but I’m not a huge [...]

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xRM with cool music…and a cow!

Wow – people are always asking about xRM as it’s getting alot of traction. At PowerObjects we have always got it, but saying the “x” is any relationship you can think of just doesn’t do it justice – well we think this video does it justice! This is a video even the late [...]

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PowerObjects starts Microsoft Dynamics CRM training

Just a quick announcement that some of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM experts here at PowerObjects have put together a semi-monthly CRM webinar.  What they are attempting to do is take the typical sales questions we get and wrap it into a presentation that people just beginning the search will find valuable.  This will not be a [...]

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM for development

Hello

I get the CRMlady’s newsletter from time to time – Anne always has great info and great advice!  You can signup to recieve her email here http://www.crmlady.com/

We work with clients all the time doing sales and marketing automation projects, but always have a tough time letting people know about the benefits of using CRM and [...]

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CRM – Send Email Error – Invalid Association: The request association is not valid, OR Corrupt Attachments

This my 2nd article on installation issues regarding Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.  However, the info below applies to both MS CRM 3.0 and 4.0.

Article 2 – Send Email Errors and Corrupt Attachments.

After running CRM for a few days all is going well, except for sporadic errors being reported by users related to sending emails via the web client.  [...]

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CRM 4.0 - The Microsoft CRM Asynchronous Processing Service service terminated unexpectedly

Updated April 16, 2008. 

I’ll be writing a series of articles regarding the various issues that we have encountered while installing CRM 4.0 and migration CRM 3.0 to 4.0.   We have found solutions and fixes for all of these.  Hopefuly these articles will save you some time or tickets with Microsoft. 

Article one – the dreaded “The [...]

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