Category: Microsoft Dynamics 365

Deployment Manager – To create a new organization, the wizard must remove the current organization in Dynamics 365 message.


While creating a new organization using Deployment Manager we got the below message

It was because we had entered the Workgroup Product key which restricts it to only organization.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh699677.aspx

Changing the product key to the server one, allowed creating the new organizations.

Hope it helps..

2015 (not 2016) in review


Sharing Annual report of 2015.   (sad to know that there will be no annual report this year for WordPress blog – https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/annual-year-in-review-for-2016-for-my-blog?replies=30)

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 260,000 times in 2015. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 11 days for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

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Plugin on Retrieve and Retrieve Multiple – How bad is it?


Nice article

salimadamon's avatarSalim Adamon - Dynamics 365 Blog

I have managed to be in the Dynamics CRM/365 world for over 7 years without having to write a single plugin on Retrieve and Retrieve Multiple. The recommendation that I give is to stay away from those. The reason is simple, it sounds horrible from a performance standpoint, and even people from Microsoft have recommended against it in many scenarios. Faced with an issue recently where we had to really consider it, I did some research and testing to try to measure the impact of such plugins on system performance. This article provides some background as to why we recommend against these types of plugins, and it also provides some of our finding after we tested for performance.

Why are Plugins on Retrieve Multiple scary?

When looking at the event execution pipeline for Dynamics CRM/365, we need to consider that there are a lot of steps involved as part of…

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Not able to register Image for Plugin in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Developer Toolkit (Public Beta 1)


Hi,

While using Developer Toolkit for Dynamics 365 we got strange issue today, the Images were not getting registered for Plugins.

In fact, in the Create New Plugin dialog box we couldn’t see the option of adding images like previous version.

Previous version –

To get more details on the new toolkit refer the below article

http://butenko.pro/2016/11/developer-toolkit-dynamics-365-public-beta-1-whats-new/

Hope it helps..

Using World Map \ Bing Map in SSRS Report in Dynamics 365 (and earlier)


Hi,

Recently I was working on a SSRS Report that will show the countries in the world map (Country was a custom entity in our CRM)

To create such a report, drag the Map report item to the report designer.

OOB we do not have world map in the Map Gallery.

Download it from the following location

https://mapgallery.codeplex.com/releases

Copy the download RDL to the following location (in my case – SQL Server Data Tools for VS 2012)

Select the world map

Add a Bing Map layer

Select Basic map

Click Next and select appropriate value

Click on Finish.

Next inside report designer, right click Layer Data

And specify mapping between the spatial and analytical dataset (our custom dataset here which has 2 column in it, name of the country and A2.

Suppose we have following countries in our CRM

The final report with countries highlighted in colors.

Hope it helps..