In CRM 4.0 Rollup 9 and earlier, there was a statement in the ReadMe file that said

Special Condition

Microsoft Office 2010 is still in the beta stage of development. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 was tested together with Microsoft Office 2010. Additionally, issues can be logged by the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Support team. Therefore, the hotfix to resolve the issues may not be available until Microsoft Office 2010 is released.

Even if Microsoft removed the statement from the Roll Up 10 Read Me, it seems that the ribbon behavior stayed the same…

The toolbar seems to work fine, but it is a little non-aesthetic. Hoping this will be corrected in Rollup 11...

Two documents were published by Microsoft to enable transactional replication of data between CRM Databases. Yes, it is supported, but only a commercial reasonable support will be provided.

A note here, only data that was created by replication can be replicated, so it’s not a workaround to write directly in the CRM database ;)

Supportability
Commercially reasonable support will be provided for the SQL replication based solution described within this document. Commercially reasonable support is defined as all reasonable support efforts by Microsoft Customer Service and Support that do not require Microsoft Dynamics CRM code fixes. This support extends to Microsoft provided code and samples, but not to custom developed code which is the responsibility of the ISV or developer.

 http://m3r.ca/g/a9hi

A nice tool to configure or move CRM customization can be found on Daniel Halan’s blog ... an image worth a thousand words.

When using the online version of Dynamics CRM, you can now have a little more complex but more powerful import process by using ZIP files, check it out on MSDN.

As they are saying, when you want more you can rely on other software like Nomad

Many tools, like the one on an MSDN post, or on Codeplex, are good enough some times. But did you calculate YOUR time?

Let’s calculate it... let suppose you can sell your time @ 100$/h, and you took...

1. 2h too find the right code sample
2. 3h to compile it, and test it
3. 2h to fix the code to fit your need
4. 2h to test it and maybe modify some screens
5. ... and all the time you may add to have a real software with... a kind of stability.

You paid 900$ for a “software” that only fit one need... Nomad is 999$ for ALL your need...

-f.

Yes it is possible to execute Asynchronously bulk operation inside CRM. The basic steps are:

1. Create QueryExpression so that only specific record can be deleted.
2. Queue the operation in CRM
3. Check that the operation completes successfully.

More information and sample code can be found on MSDN

http://m3r.ca/g/20cx

Just in case that somebody didn’t notice, we have a FREE Dynamics CRM log analyzer, to easily validate Traces generated by a CRM Server.

http://m3r.ca/g/dhcf

When using the proxy inside a plug-in, you might had a 404 not found. A solution was found here

http://m3r.ca/g/xlk5

And this was not corrected in the Roll Up 6.

-f.

keyword for search engine...

SdkTypeProxyCrmServiceWrapper

Microsoft.Crm.Extensibility.SdkTypeProxyCrmServiceWrapper.Update 404

crm 80040265

When installing CRM 4 Outlook client, you may encounter this problem, Install PST Action failed.

Two method that I tried and were successful.

Method 1: Remove CRM Outlook Data file (check the references)

Method 2: Run %windir%\system32\fixmapi.exe

-f.

ref.:

http://m3r.ca/g/teri

When I tried to install the second rollup on a CRM 3.0 installation, I had this error

dbremoveaction registry key

Searching on the web found nothing... after investiguating a little I found that... it was the roll up 2 for CRM 4!

Why the installation package did not alert me?

-f.