Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Note: These Update Rollups update the following components available via the Microsoft Download center. As of Jan. 21st, 2012 these installation files have been updated to include CRM 2011 Update Rollup 6 (re-release Version...

Even with the world we live in, there will be scenarios when you need to install CRM 2011 when there is no Internet connection available. The most common scenarios are for virtual (Hyper-V) demo environments and environments with firewalls, and\or other...

As customers are starting to plan for CRM 2011 installations and upgrades, we’ve begun to see questions regarding environment setups. Here’s a list of the questions I’ve seen thus far: Q: Are the CRM 2011 Report Extensions (commonly...

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...

I recently ran into an issue when trying to view the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Implementation Guide (IG) .chm file. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=9886ab96-3571-420f-83ad-246899482fb4 I was getting the following error...

I am often finding myself searching for CRM 2011 White Papers & Technical Documentation URL’s to reference or send to customers and while Bing works well to find these individually, I thought it would be nice to just try include them all in...

By default CRM 2011 will create six maintenance jobs which are scheduled to run daily. These jobs are executed by the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Asynchronous Processing Service (maintenance). Depending on when the organization was created the maintenance...

We're proud to announce that Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Update Rollup 10 released Thursday, August 16th, 2012! Here's the "Master" Microsoft Dynamics Knowledge Base article ( KB 2710577 ) On Friday, August 17th, Greg Nichols and Ryan Anderson from...

NEW UPDATE as of 10/22: Please note! UR11 Outlook Client packages: The Update Rollup 11 installer packages for the CRM 2011 Client for Microsoft Office Outlook (build 5.0.9690.2835) were removed from the Microsoft Download Center temporarily and replaced...

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...

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...

If you've had the CRM 2011 Outlook client installed and decide to uninstall and install the CRM 4.0 Outlook client, you may run into the following error message (from the config log) when configuring the CRM 4.0 Outlook client: Error| Configuration...

Network performance between the client and server will play a key factor in how well CRM performs for the end users. It is very common to have users working from remote locations where the network performance is unknown. There are several methods to test...

A powerful point of extensibility in Dynamics CRM 2011, is the ability to build a library of re-usable Web Resources of varying content type and declaratively introduce those resources in various parts of the native interface to extend the presentation...

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...

Over the past few years, several Microsoft CRM 4.0 White Papers have been produced that cover both Outlook synchronization, as well as Offline synchronization. You can find these white papers at the following locations: http://www.microsoft.com...

I had a customer run into the error message “Assembly must be registered in isolation” when trying to register a CRM 2011 plugin . We found this error was being thrown because the user was not a deployment administrator. If the user is only...

I'm delighted to announce that the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 13 was released on Thursday Sept. 23, 2010! Update Rollup 13 Podcast Greg Nichols from the Microsoft Premier Field Engineering team provided information and answered...

We're proud to announce that Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Update Rollup 6 released Thursday, Jan. 12th, 2012! On Friday Jan. 13th, 2012 at 8 AM Pacific Standard Time, Greg Nichols and Ryan Anderson from the Microsoft Premier Field Engineering team,...

Recently I was working on a Performance Review focused on CRM 2011 Outlook Performance. When I was reviewing Fiddler traces I noticed that every WCF request had a delay of around 350ms. This delay was only happening on machines that had a slower network...

One of my customers had to update their SSL certificate used by their CRM 2011 IFD environment. Below are the steps we took to apply the new SSL certificate – 1) Add the new certificate to the ADFS server Import the new certificate to...

A very common topic we tend to get many questions on is delegation and troubleshooting delegation usually via one of the many topics that impact this: SPN’s, Kerberos, Load Balancers, 401 errors, etc. Many times detailed environment knowledge is required...

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,...

Sean McNellis, Ryan Anderson and I recorded a podcast ( http://aka.ms/tndfbt ) last Friday on Dynamics CRM Upgrade Best Practices.  During the podcast we mentioned that we would be posting a blog article outlining the topics that we covered with...

Now that UR12 has shipped to onPremise customers we’re starting to get questions on which features were introduced as well as the differences between UR12 and “Polaris.” Let’s cover the common features of UR12 and Polaris: Re-tooling of the CRM forms...