Tip #681: Hunting down invisible timeouts

Hunting down timeouts

Application Request Routing (ARR) feature allows creating a reverse proxy front-end for your on-premises deployment. Web Application Proxy (WAP) is another (newer) kid on the block allowing DMZ deployments of CRM. We’ve been successfully using both for quite some time and they are way down on the list of suspects when things go wrong. And […]

Tip #358: How to delete deleted report

Import renamed report

No, it’s not a typo – I am going to talk about deleting the deleted. – “What?!” Let me explain. We all have that Rupert/Vernona/Joe/Jill on our team who think they know best and, for some inexplicable reason, management agreed and granted them privileges sufficient to deliver some real damage. Like going into SQL Server […]

Tip #299: Schedule CRM on premise reports

Jim “Sourdough Master” Steger sent us a fresh reminder that, despite all the advantages of CRM Online deployments, on premise installations have a few aces up their sleeves when it comes to reporting, and here is one of them: Don’t forget about the ability to schedule SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports when using CRM […]

Tip #53: Prepare your SSRS reports for CRM Online

If your SSRS report works fine in BIDS and on-premises instances but fails to upload with very unhelpful message: An error occurred while trying to add the report to Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Try adding the report again. If this problem persists, contact your system administrator. then do the simple “1-2-3” test: Ensure that your report […]

Tip #18: How to disable export from the reports

Sometimes there is a requirement to stop users from being able to export CRM reports. Take away Export to Excel privilege and reports will be displayed without the export button. Dependency on Excel export privilege is, perhaps, a bit unintuitive, and the privilege covers not only Excel but other export formats as well. Privilege is […]