Tip #461: Getting started with that mysterious USD development

Kamaji - the perfect call center employee

Not United States Dollars, I’m afraid. Unified Service Desk, the quite achiever in the Dynamics family, and the secret sauce to any successful call center implementation. In addition to having CRM (any version from 2013 SP1 up to CRM Online 2015 Update 1 will do), USD initial setup even for the development is very trivial: […]

Tip #448: Tipster guide to Dynamics CRM for Phones: Customizer View

Dynamics CRM recently released an updated Dynamics CRM for Phones app as part of the Spring Update 1. It’s Friday and it’s time for a video walk-through. Give us your feedback, all of it: good, bad, and ugly, I’m sure we can take it. Suggest new topics either in comments or by sending your ideas […]

Tip #446: How to avoid overwriting audit and duplicate detection flags

Audit On/Off

tl;dr To avoid overwriting some of the system entities flags for the customers, manually remove those flags from the managed solution files. WARNING! Super-duper unsupported. Some juicy details If you are a Dynamics CRM ISV or an infrastructure group within a large enterprise then, most likely, you distribute one or more managed solutions to your […]

Tip #433: Tipsters guide to Office 365 Groups: Administration

It’s Video Friday again. We continue our explorations of CRM Online new features with this week introduction to Office 365 Groups and what do you need to do to get it up and running. Give us your feedback, all of it: good, bad, and ugly, I’m sure we can take it. Suggest new topics either […]

Tip #410: How to create non-interactive user while saving foot from injury

Non-interactive users (available in CRM Online only) are defined as the users that “… can access the system but only through the Web service”. That makes them perfect for use as integration accounts. That and a small fact that they do not consume a CRM license (in quantities five or less). To create non-interactive user […]

Tip #405: Convert Your SQL To FetchXML The Easy Way (or Cai)

Kingswaysoft has recently updated their SQL2Fetch Convertor Let’s say you are moving from CRM On premises to CRM Online and you want to update your reports to work with CRM Online, you can take the SQL query from your report, paste it in the SQL box and click the “convert” button to generate FetchXML. This […]