First look at Microsoft Dynamics 365

It has been great to see the new changes coming with Dynamics 365 (Available November 1st) during Scott Guthrie presentation at First look at Microsoft Dynamics 365. The new Dynamics home page gives you an easy start point to join the user experience of our CRM and ERP users: There we can find the different … Continue reading First look at Microsoft Dynamics 365 →

How to get the most out of Convergence in Barcelona

The xRMVirtual session on Tuesday September 1 had to be cancelled last minute because of technical and audio difficulties and we couldn't share our experience on previous events such as Convergence, CRMUG and eXtreme CRM. However, you can still find some of the tricks I was about to share in the next link How to get … Continue reading How to get the most out of Convergence in Barcelona →

Role to JUST Import Data into Dynamics CRM

If you need to give the ability for a Dynamics CRM user to Import Data, you can just create a security role with access to the next entities: Data Import Data Map Import Source File Note: I have notice you will need, at least, Delete right - user level on the Data Import entity (it doesn't make sense … Continue reading Role to JUST Import Data into Dynamics CRM →

Comunidad CRM 2014 Expert Contributor

During 2014 I have enjoyed helping the Spanish-speaking users group Comunidad CRM. It is a great community focused on Microsoft Dynamics CRM. They organise technical webcasts, training, forums, blogs and other activities like Twitter (@ComunidadCRM). These guys are always active and keen to help you with any CRM question you may have. It doesn't matter if … Continue reading Comunidad CRM 2014 Expert Contributor →

Microsoft publishes CRM SDK in NuGet (Visual Studio)

CRM SDK is now also available from the Visual Studio extension NuGet. This extension is a provider of third party packages where anyone can participate and publish their own ones. This makes very easy to add third party assembly references. Install NuGet in Visual Studio from "Tools => Extensions and Updates" Once NuGet is installed, … Continue reading Microsoft publishes CRM SDK in NuGet (Visual Studio) →

9th to 13th September, join the MVP community in London for a ‘real world’ look at the Microsoft Cloud OS

Monday 9th September at the Microsoft Office, Victoria, LondonJoin leading MVPs for a two track one day event that tackles the delivery of Enterprise data platforms and analytics solutions.Please register to attend either track 1 or track 2:· Track 1 will focus on building of an enterprise data platform exploiting both cloud and on-premises technologies. … Continue reading 9th to 13th September, join the MVP community in London for a ‘real world’ look at the Microsoft Cloud OS →

[CRM 2011] Intermittent RetrieveMultiple error: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection

Few weeks ago, I faced an interesting intermittent issue using the CRM Service, specifically with the RetrieveMultiple message. Basically, there was a WCF service wrapping the CRM Service and eventually we were getting the same issue you can find in this MSDN CRM forum post After some deep investigation, it turned up to be a thread safe issue … Continue reading [CRM 2011] Intermittent RetrieveMultiple error: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection →

[CRM 2011 Webcast] Data, Metadata and Code Generation in CRM 2011

Dynamics CRM 2011 offers a new WCF service layer based on two endpoints: SOAP and REST. During the next webcast (Tuesday 12th April,19.00(GMT+01:00) Madrid, París), we will see how to use both of them, their supported operations and how to generate code from them easily for the line of business applications. Basically, these are the … Continue reading [CRM 2011 Webcast] Data, Metadata and Code Generation in CRM 2011 →

Hello WordPress!

Welcome to WordPress.com. Microsoft is migrating Windows Live Spaces blog to WordPress.com, where my blog has been migrated quickly and successfully. I'm playing now around WordPress dashboads and it seems to be a very compelling framework. For other side, I'm looking forward to try all the plug-ins and add-ons provided by this solution. I'll let … Continue reading Hello WordPress! →

[CRM 2011] CRM 2011 and Windows XP

Can you develop applications for CRM 2011 using Visual Studio 2010 and Windows XP? Yes, but you will have to cheat a little bit :)CRM 2010 is base on Windows Indentity Framework (WIF), which is not supported by XP. One way around is to deploy the following assemblies into the GAC of the development machine: … Continue reading [CRM 2011] CRM 2011 and Windows XP →