Microsoft quietly announced support for SQL 2012 for both CRM 2012 and CRM 4 yesterday. The 2012 support was early than originally planned, and I don’t think anyone saw the v4 support coming. But it makes sense – CRM isn’t really using must more than the core Database Engine and Reporting Services, so you kinda [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )If your users can run OOTB (out of the box) CRM 2011 reports, but all custom reports (built using the CRM Report Wizard or designed in BIDS) fail with the rsProcessingAborted error (as shown below), then the solution may be relatively simple. The solution, in most cases, is to add a SPN (Service Principal Name) [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )With CRM 2011 it’s easier than ever for administrators to identify and resolve user permission errors, and to finely-tune the additional privileges that need to be given to users. When a user tries to do something and the CRM balks at the operation based on their privileges, the user will see this dialog: As an [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Often during an implementation of CRM a lot of attributes get added to entities, or get imported from another environment, and never end up being used for anything. Sometimes those fields are earmarked for ‘future use’, but often times they are just rubbish and are only taking up space (in the abstract sense). In addition [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )A month or so ago, I was preparing test-bed data for a prospective client. As part of the test, they wanted identical sets of contact data loaded for 20 users in 20 individual CRM Business Units. This would allow 20 different testers to execute the same test scripts and, in theory, have the same user [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 5 so far )Came across an issue after installing CRM at a client site a few weeks back. The CRM appeared to complete successfully, and if you didn’t look too close, the application seemed to be working fine. But once we started clicking around, we noticed that custom icons weren’t loading, and there were form scripting errors all [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Adventures in Microsoft CRM
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