Internet Lead Capture being dropped from CRM Online
The free Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online service called Internet Lead Capture will be discontinued effective February 15th, 2013.
Retrieve Query String in Page Viewer Web Part
There are many times that we create a SharePoint web part in which we have to pass query string parameters to it from the main page, or possibly use an aspx page. If the web part that we create resides inside a Page Viewer Control, we are unable to use the Request.QueryString method in order to retrieve those values.
Microsoft Competency Changes
Today, the merging of the new Microsoft Competencies was instituted.
The ISV, Web Development and Software Development Competencies have been merged to form a new competency called Application Development.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM December 2012 Service Update
On November 1, the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online December 2012 Service Update was announced.
This update reimagines the ways sales and customer service professionals’ work with CRM. Microsoft is moving away from the traditional data-centric lists and forms approach, and this service update will add new user experiences that simply and visually guide users through their business processes.
Designing a Sales Process in CRM
Out of the box, Microsoft Dynamics CRM does not implement any particular sales process. It is a customizable platform, which means that you can built your own sales process, but it will not be available by default.
Goal Management – Part 1
You can use goal in CRM to define and track individual progress of an individual, a team or an organizational progress to achieving goals.
The Goal Metric is defined based on the field value of a specific record type. The Goal Target is defined based on the Goal Metric Value for a specific time period. The Goal Owner is the user or team which the goal is assigned to.
Outlook 2013 Crashes when sending e-mail
This is a known issues and happens usually when new products get released.
The Anti-Virus email scanner add-in for the new release of the e-mail program is not supported and thus prevents e-mails from going out and crashes the new application.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Instance Adapter
One of the challenges of many organizations is the ability to migrate data from one CRM Organization to another. This challenge occurs when working in a hybrid environment or when trying to update development, test and production environments.
Office 2013, SharePoint 2013 and Exchange 2013 Released to Manufacturing
Microsoft Office 2013 along with the other branded 2013 applications and server products have been release to manufacturing and are now available for download from the MSDN, Technet or Microsoft Partner web site.
Pre-Validation Events for Delete Plugins
When you are creating a plugin that must perform certain actions on the Delete message, you might at times try to make changes to the associated records of the records that is being deleted. When you call the Delete message using either the Pre-Operation or Post-Operation events, the associations to the underlying related records are deleted before the actual records is deleted.