We're proud to announce that all packages for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Update Rollup 13 were released on Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 to the Microsoft Download Center! We plan on releasing the Update Rollup 13 packages to Microsoft Update in April, 2013. Update Rollup 13 Build number: 5.0.9690...

For those attending Convergence next week, I wanted to let you know that we will have members of the PFE Dynamics team there presenting some great content. In addition, make sure to follow @PFEDynamics on Twitter to get updates on other PFE Dynamics activities at Convergence. Below is a list of the sessions...

Important Note: The CRM Product Group has published a blog titled " Q2 2012 Service Update – New delivery schedule " which clarifies the release plans for upcoming Update Rollups and Quarterly Service Updates in calendar year 2012. Highlights: The release known as the Q2 2012 Service Update...

Important Note: The CRM Product Group has published a blog titled " Q2 2012 Service Update – New delivery schedule " which clarifies the release plans for upcoming Update Rollups and Quarterly Service Updates in calendar year 2012. This is a re-post of an article written by Girish Raja from...

One of the requests we have seen in the field is for a custom admin security role in CRM 2011 where a group of users have permissions restricted to only certain administrative functions. One such example is to create custom admin role and restricting this role to creating users and assigning roles to...

I had recently worked with a customer that was running into errors when trying to import a solution into some of their organizations. The solution import would fail with the following error message. Entity Relationships goal_DuplicateBaseRecord Failure 0x80044150 Object reference not set to an instance...

I recently worked with a CRM 4.0 customer that was experiencing CRM outages due to their CRM Outlook clients in one location consuming a large amount of bandwidth. CRM Outlook clients do transmit and receive information with the CRM server for variety of reasons. I've listed a several of these reasons...

Scenario: The CRM users need the ability to retrieve, update, and Save form data from within a custom page on the CRM Form.   To accomplish this request we will be developing a Silverlight Web Resource. The Silverlight Web Resource will be displayed on the CRM form to provide the user interface...

Recently I have received a lot of questions about how to get started in developing against CRM 2011. The SDK provides many different examples and helper classes which can be reused to save some time when developing applications. For someone new at developing for CRM, the robust SDK examples may be more...

On April 4th 2011, Sean McNellis and Daren Turner from the Microsoft Premier Field Engineering team provided information and answered questions about Upgrading Customizations for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Upgrading Customizations for CRM 2011 Podcast Guests: Daren Turner ( Bio ) Sean...

Lately I have had some questions on how to display externally stored documents within CRM. and there are many ways to do this leveraging custom web pages or SharePoint document libraries. The options rely on other technologies and/or the creating custom code, so if you want a quick solution using minimal...

With CRM 2011 on the verge of being released there are new features being introduced that will allow you to show 1:N related records in a Sub Grid but there is still a limitation of showing information that is from a N:1 (lookup) relationship. Using some other new features of CRM 2011 I have created...