Windows 10 has been released, and Microsoft offered a free upgrade to licensed Windows 7 and Windows 8 users. Windows 10 ships with a new browser called Microsoft Edge, which introduces some great new features and let go of some older capabilities of Internet Explorer. These changes will require CRM to be updated.
Today, Microsoft release Windows 10 in 190 countries. The launch of Windows 10 is being deployed to millions of people and organzations around the world.
Recently we have encountered an issue where a domain admin (and local admin) account was trying to access the SSRS Report Manager and Report Server web sites and was getting the following error:
User DOMAINUserAccount does not have the required permissions. Verify that the permissions have been grated and Windows User Account Control (UAC) have been addressed.
CRM 2013 has a new feature that allows displaying Posts, Notes and Activities within a single control (using the Updated Forms). We can easily add this new control to the form by clicking on the Notes ribbon icon on the Insert Tab of the Form Customization.
When configuring ADFS in your own local the default login of any user authenticating into the environment would be user@domain.local or something of that sort. At many times, especially when working with multiple applications, we would like the user to authenticate using different login credentials such as user@mynewdomain.com. In order to implement this, we can add suffixes that gives us the ability to user a friendly logon name that is not the same as the domain or parent’s domain name.
When configuring Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 to your Claims based Authentication a Authentication Required dialog box appears every 20 minutes.
By default the security token lifetime for claims–based authentication deployment using ADFS 2.0 (or above) is 60 minutes, however the token expiration dialog box will appear 20 minutes before the actual expiration.
After importing a managed solution and making changes to the environment by removing some of the out-of-the-box views for the Contact or Account entity, we encounter an error if we ever try to delete the managed solution. The error is “State code or status code is invalid” or 1 is not a valid status code for state code…”
With the recent introduction of the next release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, originally code-named Orion and the new videos that are now available on the Microsoft Partner Training site, the future looks very interesting.
The next version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Dynamics CRM 2013, scheduled to be released this fall will include a new licensing scheme.
The hosted product is scheduled for release with three licensing options.
Although CRM provides a duplicate detection process that can be configured using the User Interface, many time when developing application for CRM, such as Import Manager or Synchronization application, you require to create your own duplicate detection rules, execute the duplicate detection process and retrieve the results of the duplicates from within your application.