The customer asked me today if WIF is really required for CRM 2011 On-Premise deployment without using Claims-based authentication. Hmm… It’s a good question, I know it’s required for CRM 2011 but I don’t really know the reason...

After almost 3 year, I am done with a global CRM implementation for a life science company in California. My travel between Chicago and Los Angeles finally comes to the end. Looking back at the past 3 years, I have learned a lot from this project and...

I ran into a problem today that CRM IE7, 8, 9 hangs after 30 minutes because I have many XmlHttpRequest calls on the form.  I found a blog on MSDN that helped me out and I believe all of the us as a CRM developer should pay attention to.  The...

Oh well, when it comes to tuning the CRM 2011 application, there are many things we can do.  The project that I am working on for the past two years is finally finished with performance tuning, I like to write down a few things that I learned from...

In most enterprise Dynamics CRM project, the customer would like to install CRM using the SQL server DNS alias instead of the server name. One of the reasons for doing it is because they need to support their Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy.  CRM...

The customer wants to setup DNS for SQL Server because it’s part of their Disaster Recover (DR) plan.  I learned something from the folks in our team and Grant G from the PFE team on how to do it. Posting the step here just in case that I need to...

We ran into an issue when importing a solution to few of our environments.  The import failed and we received an error message telling us that “An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.”  We have tried so many different...

I am working on a global Dynamics CRM 2011 project and we are encountering performance issues on Internet Explorer (IE) 7.  I guess there are several options to tackle this problem. Option 1: If you customer is ok with upgrading all of the users...

Do you want to read our book for free?  Our publisher is giving away two free e-copies of our book, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 New Features ,  if you tell us one or more of features that make you want to own this book in the comments section...

I upgraded my laptop’s hard drive from STAT to SSD this past weekend, now I have raised my minimum requirement for a laptop that it must has a SSD.  Swapping the hard drive was easy, however to clone the information from the old SATA to SSD was not...

Packt Publishing released the book Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 New Features .  This book covers CRM 2011’s new features by walking a person through building an Airline Compensation Management System in CRM.  Jim Wang and I spent many hours on...

Our team encounter issues with import and publish because we have a single 6MB unmanaged solution.  A 6MB CRM solution is considering a very big solution.  Depends on the hardware, it took us more than an hour to import and then another hour...

The CRM SDK team released version 5.0.7 of the SDK and this version includes a lot of new things that incides with UR 5 and the CRM Online November Service Release.  You may download the new SDK from MSDN library and also on MSDN download . Also...

The product team has updated the CRM 2011 SDK to version 5.0.6.  Based on the release note, the following has been updated.  To get the latest SDK, you may download in MSDN Downloads or view it at MSDN Library . Release New and updated topics...

Rollup #3 has been released and it fixes dozens of bugs in CRM 2011.  You may download UR3 at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26912 .  Here are some of the things UR3 fixed: You import a solution that contains a plug-in...

Problem: If you ever run into a situation that you imported your solution successfully and not able to publish it, the reason is because either the size of the solution might be too large or the SQL is not fast enough.  We ran into this problem earlier...

Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step Methodology R2 has been released on April 22, 2011.  Besides all of the new contents added, I want to point out that the Sure Step methodology has been translated into 9 other languages.  It has English Chinese ...

I am going to blog something not related to Microsoft Dynamics CRM here today.  I spent more than half a day on this so I just want to write down what I did just incase that I have to do it again in the future.  If you are trying to do the same...

I have been asked to figure out the minimum permissions required to install CRM 2011.  I dig around and I didn’t realize the product group already put the information in the Implementation Guide (IG).  I found the article below from the CRM...

In CRM 2011, you may include Plugin assemblies and steps in a solution.  Then you can export the solution from one environment and import into other environments.  If you run into a problem telling you that the import of the plugins failed,...

The PG announced the availability of the new CRM 2011 SDK today.  It adds couple new features such as tools, assemblies, documentation for using developer extensions, portal developer toolkit and the metadata browser solution to replace the list...

The product team released the Claims-based Authentication white paper today.  It’s available to download on the Microsoft Download Center.  In this paper, it covers the following topics: Authentication Models for internal and external access...

The CRM Product Team has been working days and nights to get this release out to us.  Many Kudos to that team for releasing it nearly two weeks early.   You may download the RTM release on Microsoft Download Center now. Here are the product...

The SDK team announced the release of the latest CRM 2011 SDK.  I knew that they work really hard to improve the content in there.  They are just an awesome group of people to work with, they listened to our feedbacks and trying their best to...

CRM 2011 has this excellent solution concept which I like it a lot!  If you can master on how to leverage solutions in CRM 2011, it’s quite powerful when you are doing customizations in CRM.  When doing Site Map or Ribbon customization, I often...