by Phil Adams
13. August 2010 13:36
One of our clients is having a really frustrating problem: on a new Windows 7 pc with IE 8 installed, popups from CRM are always being blocked with the usual "A Microsoft Dynamics CRM window was unable to open, and may have been blocked by a pop-up blocker." error message. The Outlook CRM ...
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by Phil Adams
11. August 2010 11:00
Unresolved emails are useful in that you can send an email to someone without having them setup as a system record (contact, account, lead, queue, user, ect). Unresolved email addresses are turned off by default. They should be used with caution. If you send an email to an unresolv...
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by Phil Adams
4. May 2010 13:09
Last week i have had an issue where during the install of CRM 4, this is a fresh install the setup as follows:
SQL Box - Windows 2008 R2 + SQL2008 SP1CRM Box - Windows 2008 R2
now both boxes have been freshly prepped and joined to the domain, all with out errors.for added installation proof both s...
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by Phil Adams
30. April 2010 00:21
The concept of debugging plugins and workflows has been blogged about in the past. There is a lot of great information out there. One thing I have noticed about debugging is that it involves a lot of steps. These steps take time. You end up waiting forever from the time you m...
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by Phil Adams
29. April 2010 12:25
This seemed strange to me, as I knew that I had used right hand date fields in CRM 4 previously, and it had worked. I tested on another machine, this time with IE 7, and the calendar lookup was not cut off.
Internet Explorer 7 ...
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by Phil Adams
30. March 2010 11:39
Since Microsoft first released Microsoft CRM 4.0 (in early 2008) they have released several hotfix roll ups. Each hotfix rollup fixes several problems that have been identified since the initial release. It is generally recommended that you keep your CRM patched with the latest rele...
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by Phil Adams
22. March 2010 14:50
In BIDS, do the following:
Click on Report > Report Properties > Layout tab
Make a note of the values for Page width, Left margin, Right margin
Close and go back to the design surface
In the Properties window, select Body
Click the + symbol to expand the Size node
Make a note of the va...
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by Phil Adams
17. March 2010 14:57
I ran across some code today that will pre-filter a lookup field based on a selection in another lookup field. Put this in the onChange of the first lookup: document.filterLookup(crmForm.all.customerid, crmForm.all.contactid); Put this in the onLoad of the form: // Filt...
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by Phil Adams
4. March 2010 14:37
I've been working on a MS CRM 4 project and found that the custom entities that we added displayed an 'Add Existing xxxxx to this record' button when it was not required and created a lot of confusion among the users. Microsoft have said they will make this optional 'In the next relea...
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by Phil Adams
12. February 2010 11:01
Integrating Microsoft Dynamics CRM via App Fabric I am excited about the Microsoft’s Azure initiative. App Fabric is a part of Window Azure platform and as indicated at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure, makes it simpler to connect cloud and on-premise applications. It also simplif...
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