Tip #267: If form load is slow, take this pill

IIS 8 performance settings

Gayan “Not Daddy” Perera is a man of few words when it comes to squeezing the last bit of performance out of on-premise installations. Succulent and straight to the point: If you’re running CRM 2013 on-premise using IIS 8, make sure to go into the IIS Manager > Configuration Editor then select system.web\caching\outputCaching, set omitVaryStar […]

Tip #265: Administrator updates of read-only fields

If you have fields on your CRM form that are read only, it can make administration difficult. For example, if you have read only fields, you cannot bulk update the fields, and you can’t edit the field from the workflow designer. Sure you can customize the form, make the fields editable, and then bulk update the fields, […]

Tip #242: Don’t forget the default filters

Default Report Filter

Are your users confused when a CRM report freshly-minted by a report wizard, does not deliver the data they expect? Inspired by our twice the tip, our fellow contributor Andre “I’ve got 88 in my handle” Margono sent us a fresh reminder that “the default filter is something that I often forget to remove/update and […]

Tip #225: When CRM makes ye say “Arrrrrrgh!”

Friday, September 19 International Talk Like a Pirate Day 2014 If ye be usin’ Dynamics C Arrrrrrrrrrrr M fer several years, ye may spy wit’ ye eye that CRM starts runnin’ like a scallywag. Here be several thin’s ye can do to swab th’ deck ‘o ye CRM system, hoist performance, ‘n spit shine th’ cobwebs […]

Tip #206: Change the password expiration policy on Office365/CRM Online

Arghhhh – AGAIN? If your company uses Office365 (Exchange Online), I am sure you’ve had reactions like the one above several times in your life. Every 90 days actually. 90 days is the default Password Expiration Policy for Office365 (shorter than the 42 days of Active Directory) and this affects CRM Online. I get this question […]

Tip #193: Check your duplicate detection rules after solution imports

Today’s tip was submitted to the tip jar by Jef Smets. Got a tip that you want to share? Send it to jar@crmtipoftheday.com. For quite some time now our duplicate detection rules seemed to be un-publishing themselves from time to time… Nobody had any idea why until I discovered today that duplicate detection rules are unpublished […]