In the tip 759 we suggested keeping a sandbox instance as your persistent backup because Dynamics 365 Management Center provides no control over the backup lifetime. Later, we were excited about introduction of the Online Management API and, as it turned out, all for the right reasons. Using the API, administrators can now backup a […]
Now that you’ve mastered the backup and restore for your CRM Online organization, you may be wondering, now what? Backups are only held for three days, that’s not very useful, is it? Well, actually, it is. These transient backups are very useful if you perform some scary-looking update to your production instance. But more importantly, […]
Derek “clients call him ‘The Guru’” Hughes has been our follower for some time and today he returns the favor with some interest because his tip is hot. We haven’t seen any announcements or heard anything in the official channels regarding backup and restore coming in any wave updates. Edit: official announcement and documentation are […]
In Tip #241, we recommended backing up your encryption key for CRM 2013. What if you didn’t do that, and now you have lost your encryption key. There are several things that you can do. First of all, you cannot enable encryption in the organization if you don’t have the original key are there is […]
Dynamics CRM 2013 has field level data encryption on password fields, like the email password field on mailbox records. This feature is enabled by default. Always be sure that you copy the key and save it in a safe place. You will need it some day. When you import a copy of an organization in […]
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