You create a Power Apps trial at www.powerapps.com, but if you try to create an environment with a CDS database you get an error that adding a database requires at least 1 GB of free space. The reason you are getting this error is because when you create the environment, you choose what type of […]
Tip #1178: Pure Unified Interface trials
I guess it was only the matter of time until Unified Interface started to take over. And so it begins with the changes coming to the trial experience that will let the customers experience and evaluate their workloads purely on Unified Interface. Summary of experience enhancements are as follows. For more details, please refer to […]
Tip #1132: Performance of various instance types
We keep hearing this question over and over again from the customers, consultants, and developers: Are production instances given any preferential treatment in terms of resources as compared to sandbox and trial instances? I thought it’d be a good idea to revisit the 4 years old answer as nothing has changed since then. As per […]
Tip #1065: How to get clean Customer Service trial
When Neil “Agile” Benson installed a new Customer Service trial, he got more than he bargained for: Trial Site Map Customization, FreeTrialBaseSolution2, Trial for Field Service, Trial of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Project Service Automation, etc. And he didn’t select or want Field Service or Project Service Automation apps added either. Why does the trial […]
Tip #1042: New trial sign up options for Customer Engagement
We are one whining bunch. We said that 30-days trials are not long enough. Then we said that 30-days trials are not short enough. Microsoft did listen and now we have some new sign up options. Today Microsoft has released a new Customer Engagement trial sign up service for Microsoft Employees and Partners. You can now […]
Tip #1021: Everything is an app
If you provisioning a trial and accidentally or deliberately missed the checkboxes enabling Customer Service, you will end up with Dynamics 365 instance with the “facelifted” Web UI but nothing else. Where’s the much tooted Universal User Interface (UUI) that was meant to replace Interactive Service Hub in the version 9? Well, it’s simply not […]
Tip #780: When trial is “sorry, that didn’t work”
During the provisioning of new Dynamics 365 trial you may find yourself in the situation when provisioning process does not complete and you receive the “Sorry, that didn’t work” error message: Fubar symptoms include: Office portal works just fine CRM trial is actually provisioned and can be found under Billing > Subscriptions No CRM licenses […]
Tip #535: Licensing Microsoft Dynamics Marketing trial
Stopping the truck again, otherwise Daniel “Soft king” Cai won’t be able to market his awesome products. Daniel: Computer says “No” I wonder what criteria it is to get a MDM trial. I have successfully requested a new MDM trial, but when I try to assign myself a license for MDM, I am getting the […]
Tip #521: SharePoint integration in a CRM Online trial
So you set up a Dynamics CRM Online 30 day trial and you want to also try the document and OneNote integration. Here is how to get a SharePoint Online trial to use with your Dynamics CRM trial. There are two approaches: If you have already set up a CRM Online trial, from the Office 365 […]