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Advanced Data Migration Map Editor for CRM 4.0 - Redux

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 shipped with Data Migration Manager (referred as DMM from here on) to provide customers a solution to migrate data from their current solutions to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. DMM has made people happy with its unique set of

CRM 4.0 Bulk Data Export Tool

There is no facility to Bulk Export the data from Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. This sample tool allows users to connect to OnPremise or Online Microsoft CRM 4.0 organization and export records of CRM entities in form of CSV files. The complete code for

Duplicate Detection Security Model

Security model of duplicate detection is in accordance with the security flow of MSCRM v4 which is very simple and quite intuitive. For performing duplicate detection rule create and publish or running duplicate detection job, user needs some security

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007 with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (SSAS) provides tools for data mining with which you can identify rules and patterns in your data, so that you can determine why things happen and predict what will happen in the future—giving you powerful insight that

Bulk Record Deletion in Microsoft CRM Online

This blog post will cover custom filter-based mass record deletion for a given entity System. In this article, I will walk you through some scenario-based examples that I hope will provide some clarity for your CRM implementation. Because there are so

Error Handling in Data Migration Wizard

In this entry I am going to talk about different features in Data Migration Manager(DMM) where error situations can appear, how the tool notifies the user, filters out the erroneous content and proceeds for migration with the acceptable data. Let’s take

Data Migration Wizard: Express versus Standard Mode

The Data Migration Manager is a powerful feature in Microsoft CRM 4.0, designed to handle the migration needs of your organization. The main component of the Data Migration Manager is the Data Migration Wizard, which guides you step by step, in migrating

Data Migration Manager: Advanced Transformations

Advanced transformations used in Microsoft CRM Data Migration Manager is a powerful and efficient technique for managing data when migrating your data. In one of my previous posts, Data Migration Manager: Advanced Transformation Mappings , I discussed

Advance Data Migration Map Editor for CRM 4.0

On behalf of the Microsoft CRM Product team in India, I would like to take this opportunity to announce the release of Advanced Data Migration Map Editor for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. The Map Editor is released at http://www.codeplex.com/mscrmmapeditor

Data Migration Manager: Advanced Transformation Mappings

Today I will talk about what are advanced transformation mappings and how are they used while migrating data into Microsoft CRM using the Data Migration Manager. As we all know, Microsoft CRM Data Migration Manager comes as an easy to use tool for migrating
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How to get better performance from the MetadataService

You may have noticed that in 4.0, the MetadataService is considerably slower at retrieving data that it was in 3.0. In fact, you’ll still see the difference if you compare the 2006 MetadataService endpoint and the 2007 endpoint. Why is this? The reason

Migration Deletion support in Data Migration Manager

Before reading this post, it is recommended to go through the brief introduction and demo of Data Migration Manager (DMM) available at: http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2008/01/04/microsoft-dynamics-crm-4-0-data-migration-manager-with-john-o-donnell.aspx
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Migrating Notes and Attachments using Data Migration Manager

In Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, there was no straight-forward way to import a bunch of attachment into CRM without writing some code. This has changed in 4.0. The Data Migration Manager supports migrating Notes and Attachments (collectively called annotations)

Importing Data in CRM 4.0 Made Easier

Let me guess, either you are looking to learn ‘how to import data’ or you are stuck with some issues while importing data. If one of these is the case, then you are at the right place. Importing data into CRM was never this easier. It would be good if

Pick list and Bit Data Migration using DMM

Pick list Value Mappings and Pick list Migration: DMM has the potential to efficiently handle your pick list values. DMM uses the concept of Pick list mapping in its Data Map for migrating the pick list values. So what are these pick list mappings? Let’s
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