PowerBI and Dynamics CRM are an up and coming celebrity “power couple” – they’re seen in all the trendiest places and news about them is reported widely. That said, it came as a surprise to many that Microsoft quietly overhauled the existing Dynamics CRM Sales Content Pack and added a brand new Service Manager Content […]
Tip #656: Dynamics CRM Online is truly global with multi-regional deployments
If you have or are a multinational customer with the user base spread around the globe, CRM Online offers multiregional instances. It means you can keep your local data in the regional datacenter for performance, regulatory and corporate governance reasons. Your tenant needs to be enabled for multi-region deployment and you need to request this […]
Tip #653: Tipster guide to Dynamics CRM 2016 Spring Update – Part III – Interactive Service Hub Enhancements
Spring Update 2016 has introduced several enhancements to Interactive Service Hub. The first is directly related to customizing and extensibility with the ability to add iframes and Web Resources to ISH forms. Also added, is the ability for users to work with article translations that are not in their native language. Give us your feedback, […]
Tip #650: The real role to manage Dynamics CRM Online
Few days ago we explained how to give your O365 users ability to manage CRM Online features but without being a Global Administrator. O365 admin portal UI gave us Service administrator role. We suspected it’s too much but decided to let it go for the sake of simplicity. Thanks to the insight from Hans Worst […]
Tip #649: CRM Online has SLA
Not that SLA where you define level of service or support that your organization agrees to offer to a customer. The other one, where Microsoft puts their money where their mouth is when guaranteeing that your CRM Online will be up and running when you need it. Unlike some other providers.
Tip #647: Tipster guide to Dynamics CRM 2016 Spring Update – Part II – Mobile Offline Syncing
As always the annual spring update for CRM online is introducing many new features and improvements. One of those is Mobile Offline Synchronization. In this video we look at requirements for the feature, and walk through setup and configuration (including defining offline profiles, and controlling what data is available). There might be a part III, […]
Tip #645: Name that address
If you want to take advantage of an obscure Lookup Address feature when dealing with quotes or orders, you will find that the address lookup on that dialog looks very strange: first line is blank followed by the zip/postal code and city. In addition, how do you add multiple addresses to a customer record in […]
Tip #643: Role to manage Dynamics CRM Online
When a user opens Dynamics CRM Online instance manager (https://port.crm[0-9].dynamics.com/G/Instances/InstancePicker.aspx), they see the instance selector if there is more than one instance available but nothing else. The only option is to select the instance and click Open button. What if you want user to be able to manage CRM Online features but without being a […]
Tip #642: Tipster guide to Dynamics CRM 2016 Spring Update – Part 1
The Annual Spring Update for CRM Online is upon as, and trial Instances are already available with the new features. In this video we highlight a couple of key items, and dive into the new SLA enhancements for other entities. As you have guessed, there will be at least part II – stay tuned. In […]
Tip #637: Tipster guide to Microsoft Flow – codeless integration between CRM and other apps
Apparently, for people who like bending their joints backward, Friday Flow is a thing. We’ve decided to join the bandwagon and in today’s video we will show you how to create a basic workflow between SharePoint and CRM using Microsoft Flow. Flow is a cloud service, currently in preview, that allow you to create automated […]