Tip #470: OneNote in Dynamics CRM for Dummies, Part 1: Why and How

OneNote benefits

¡Como estas amigos! Our good friend Pablo “CRMGamified” Peralta with another bunch of tips for the rest of us. If your Español is good, read the original, nothing to see here. Just in case any of you were distracted these past few weeks, the answer is yes. We can now upload notes we make on […]

Tip #452: How to use SSL certificates internally

tl;dr Get a wildcard SSL certificate for your domain, reserve some names for internal CRM (e.g. internalcrm.contoso.com) and use internal DNS to resolve those addresses internally-only. If blah.foobar.local is required, domain CA should be used to issue an internal only certificate with trust implied. The Stop Our own Joel “Standing on the shoulders of other […]

Tip #426: Making intelli-sense out of plugin parameters

Browse object library

Our today’s tipster is the man himself: Tanguy “The XRM Toolbox” Touzard. Did you ever feel lost when you wanted to develop a plugin and didn’t know what keys to use in IPluginExecutionContext.InputParameters or IPluginExecutionContext.OutputParameters? Did you ever wonder why we do use the mysterious “Target” key when writing a plugin for Create, Update or […]

Tip #418: 3 ways to find the blocking attribute

Shan “Smoke ’em” McArthur wonders during another mini truck stop if there is any way to find a blocking attribute using nothing but its id. The error message usually looks like this: A managed solution cannot overwrite the Attribute component with Id=e7840116-dead-beef-a5e5-8b5cb27e9509 for the CRM org noneofyourbusiness.crm.dynamics.com That said, I have no way of looking […]

Tip #407: Some things are irreversible

Truck goes wherever it pleased. For example, US Patent Office. Andrhe “I’ve got 88 in my handle” Margono could not make up his mind, kept adding then deleting attributes and got himself into a pickle: Recently I was migrating some data from my Dev environment to Test environment and I noticed that there are 2 […]