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Owner Mapping/User creation in Import Data Wizard for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online
Microsoft Dynamics CRM online Nov 2009 Service Update has several exciting features. One of that is the Import Data Wizard that allows rapid Import of data from within the Webapp or Outlook client. This blog covers how record ownership is resolved and how the users are created as part of data import. Introduction To whom -
Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Append Vs. Append To – What’s the Difference?
This post is CRM security 101, but I get asked this question fairly often, so it seems that there is some confusion about what the difference is between “Append” and “Append To” security permissions. I find this confusion comes from the similar sounding names of these permissions, and also because configuration of relationship security requires -
Using Data Pre-Filtering in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Reports
Have you been looking for a way to retrieve and view query results faster? Pre-filter the data! Data pre-filtering in Microsoft Dynamics CRM reports lets you retrieve and display result sets quickly, makes reports context-sensitive, and allows reports to be filtered using the Advanced Find feature. Data pre-filtering complements data filtering supported by Microsoft SQL -
Error during Hotfix installation – “Version string portion was too short or too long”
Recently we had a problem when installing a Hotfix for AX 2009. The installation stopped with an error and we could find the following information in the setup log: === Starting execution phase === Starting the Microsoft Dynamics AX Client executable: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics AX\50\Client\bin\ax32.exe “-regconfig=Ax2009myConfig” “-logdir=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dynamics AX\Dynamics AX Setup -
Supported file types in Data Import Wizard for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online
The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online November 2009 Service Update encapsulates many new cool features and improvements. One of such features is the much-much improved Import Data Wizard. The new Import Data wizard no longer restricts user to import one data file at a time. You can do Import of multiple files containing record types that -
Using XMLports With Web Services
As a follow-up on my recent webcast, here is the general walkthrough of how to create an XMLport and use it for sending data to NAV. First, what we want to do is create our XMLport and make sure it has the elements and values that we want. For the root element, I have set -
Duplicate SPNs in a 3-tier setup and how to locate them
One of the problems when troubleshooting why a 3-tier setup of NAV 2009 doesn’t work is, that the same error – typically this one on the SQL Server: “Login failed for user ‘NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'” can be caused by any number of problems between NAV Server, SQL Server and Active Directory settings. One quite common cause -
Using CaptionClass property on a field in a system table can cause problems
You can experience some problems if you set a value on the ‘CaptionClass’ system tables on NAV 2009 or NAV 2009 SP1. This can also happen if you had already a value on one of the ‘CaptionClass’ system tables on previous versions, and you upgrade to either NAV 2009 or NAV 2009 SP1. Problems can -
CREATE DATABASE failed when installing Cronus Sample Database
Today I did run into a problem installing the “Cronus Sample Database”. In the error report view I found this error message SQL Server option Cronus Sample Database for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Fatal error during installation. CREATE DATABASE failed. Some file names listed could not be created. Check related errors. After click on the -
Provisioning ‘unique names’ changes in Microsoft Dynamics CRM
The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online November 2009 Service Update will change how we provision unique names. If ISV code makes a certain incorrect assumption about how to talk to CRM Online organizations, it will break for some orgs. Also, customers setting up an email router will have a minor change to the way they acquire -
Creating a web service manually, the importance of the name you give it, and a few small things to remember
When you use the SC command line command to create a new NAV 2009 Service, how does the new service know whether it is a middle tier for RTC to connect to, or whether it is supposed to handle web service calls? In other words, what decides whether the new service will be “Microsoft Dynamics NAV