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Are we allowed to use Power BI Embedded within Dynamics CRM? I’m puzzled!
At this moment I’m doing some research to embed Power BI embedded within CRM. I can hear many of you think “Why bother dude, just use Power BI in your Enterprise 1 plan”. For large enterprises this is...
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#CRMVisualSchema – part 7: Stuck on a new diagram rendering mode…
The last months I’ve been working on the Entity Relation Diagram Creator plug-in for the XRM ToolBox. At this moment the plug-in is functioning well and some new ideas start to cross my mind. E.g. a...
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#CRMVisualSchema – part 6: XrmToolBox development pitfalls and tricks
It has been almost two weeks since I released the Entity Relation Diagram Creator for XrmToolBox. Over 10.000 people already downloaded the plug-in, and I received a fair deal of suggestions to...
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#CRMVisualSchema – part 5: Launch of the plug-in for XrmToolBox
Almost 2 months after I started this series of articles, I’m proud to announce that the 1.0 version of the Entity Relation Diagram Creator plug-in is downloadable through the XrmToolBox Plugin Store....
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#CRMVisualSchema – part 4: Some steady progress
It has been a couple of weeks since I wrote the last update on the XRMToolbox plug-in I’m developing: The Entity Relation Diagram Creator. This is going to be a tool in which you can generate nice...
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#CRMVisualSchema – part 3: Getting started with plugin development for...
In the previous article, I managed to cram the visual schema designer functionality into a single dll. So far I have implemented the following functionality: Get a list of solutions from CRM I only get...
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#CRMVisualSchema – part 2: Entity schema up-and-running
At this moment I’m making some nice progress on visualizing an entity model. In the comment section of my previous article Stefan (*kudos*) pointed me on some alternatives, some of them depend either...
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#CRMVisualSchema – part 1: intro
Last summer I was approached by the EMEA recruitment office from Salesforce; if I was interested to join them as a Technical Solution Architect. I was suprised because I didn’t have any experience and...
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Workaround for ADFS issues for external Dynamics CRM url in IFD
Last week we were setting up an on-premise Dynamics CRM 2016 at one of our clients. The server had to be configured to accept internal and external clients in order to be able to work with mobile CRM...
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Our organization is relocating
A lot has happened since I wrote my last article in which I discussed the dodgy unpredictable performance of the Dynamics CRM online environment of one of our clients. I didn’t expect to receive that...
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My thoughts on the performance issue
At this moment we are having a Dynamics CRM online performance issue at one of our clients. In a joint effort with Microsoft we are trying to find the cause of the performance issue. As a backup...
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Moving back on-premise (for now)
One of my clients is experiencing a very poor performance on CRM online. The client is about to go live with the new system, but this week during an internal demo (for the key users) the key users...
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The solution that didn’t want to be installed, but ended up being installed!
Aaaargh, what a day! Today I was wrapping up the setup of an on-premise Dynamics CRM 2016 (Update 1) testing environment for a client. One of the last tasks I had to do was to update the unmanaged...
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Battling performance issues
At the moment I’m working for one of our clients. The customer is migrating from Lotus Notes to Dynamics CRM online in combination with Office 365. Since the beginning of the project, the client has...
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#Crm2Crm – part 7: Bidirectional replication up-and-running
Welcome back in the final episode in this series of articles on building a replication mechanism within Dynamics CRM. In the previous article I implemented a concept of a message pump. The goal of the...
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#Crm2Crm – part 6: The Message Pump
In this series of articles, I’m implementing a proof of concept of a replication mechanism within Dynamics CRM. My intention is not to build an enterprise class replication mechanism (e.g. Scribe,...
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#Crm2Crm – part 5: Serialization fixed
I ended my previous article in this replication series with the remark that I needed to focus on the serialization and deserialization of the entity data that I’m going to replicate. I explained that I...
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#Crm2Crm – part4: First steps
For the first time in weeks I’ve been able to work on the replication concept. As this excersize is intended to be a proof of concept, I decided to start with a small setup. In order to replicate the...
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The saga continues…
It has been a while since I wrote the last article in the #Crm2Crm series. For some reason, my trustworthy SuperMicro server decided that its working life came to an end… Resulting in a server which...
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#Crm2Crm – part 3: Replication basics 2
Last time I described the concept of a simple one way replication pattern. In this pattern each time an entity record is added, modified or deleted a message is written in a message entity. The message...
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