Tip #661: New and Improved PowerBI Content Packs

Dynamics CRM Power BI Content Packs

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

Pangea supercontinent

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

Role playing game

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 #647: Tipster guide to Dynamics CRM 2016 Spring Update – Part II – Mobile Offline Syncing

Cans connected by a string that is cut in the middle by scissors

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 #643: Role to manage Dynamics CRM Online

Manage the CRM Online instance

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 #637: Tipster guide to Microsoft Flow – codeless integration between CRM and other apps

Friday Flow

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 […]