Archive for February, 2010

Give Users an Easy Way to Control Which Contacts Sync to Outlook

February 21st, 2010 by admin


Let’s face it, using local data groups to define which contacts sync to Outlook isn’t necessarily for everyone. While some more savvy CRM users will be fine with this, others may ask for a simple way to just “check a…

Disappearing Security Roles in Microsoft CRM

February 17th, 2010 by admin


This is an old gotcha that I ran across recently and was surprised to find that not everyone was aware of the functionality. A particular user was suddenly having problems logging into CRM, with a message indicating the a security…

Happy Chinese New Year! 2010 – The Year of The Tiger

February 13th, 2010 by admin


p.s.: Ancient Chinese believe that the markings on the forehead of tigers resemble the Chinese character for “Wang”, or King, which is my family name. ;-)

Windows Server 2008 – Missing Drive Space

February 6th, 2010 by sirslur


The story begins with me needing more drive space on my backup drive.  I allocated the extra space from our SAN.  Then I went into the server and told it to expand the drive with the extra space.
This is where it gets weird.  I could see the new space everywhere except in explore and [...]

Delayed IFRAME Loading

February 5th, 2010 by admin


Suppose you have a CRM form that has several IFRAMES contained in multiple tabs. Loading such a form can sometimes create a performance issue on the client browser due to the frames all loading at the same time. One such…

CRM 4.0 Pre-Filtering Gotcha with Union Queries

February 3rd, 2010 by admin


The other day I had to do a report in SSRS and it required me to do a UNION query. In my queries I had a join to the FilteredAccount view so I could use the CRMAF_ prefix to all…

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