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Unable To Save Account, Contact, or Anything Else With an Address by Ranko

By a yet undiscovered set of circumstances some records are created without addresses. Because the CRM has to create two default related address records, editing the master records will produce errors that invoke internal business rules of the CRM. To...
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Changing the User Name and Logon Name In Dynamics CRM 4.0 Extra Fun Edition by Ranko

Note: Please note that I plan on verifying this on a clean system as soon as time allows. So grain of salt please. The task at hand is changing a user name and login name of a Dynamics CRM 4.0 user. Most probably you know how to do it, it is well documented...
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Trigger CRM Workflows On Records Created By Import by Ranko

How often do you want to run a workflow only if the record is created through an import? If the answer is “at least once”, read on. The only problem is figuring out how to trigger the workflow. Fortunately the solution is dead simple. Every time you run...
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Updating Records With MS Dynamic CRM 4.0 Import Wizard by Ranko

Records update feature is another one of those features I learned to hate in CRM. First we were teased in the Titan previews with it. Then it wasn’t in the RTM of the CRM, and then rumors were that one of the rollups (I forget which one) for CRM included...
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CRM Permissions For Data Import by Ranko

The other day I received an e-mail that led me to a fun-to-solve problem with one of our MS Dynamics CRM 4.0 installations. A user informed me that they could see the Imports section within the workplace just fine, but no New button. A quick check of...
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Killing Choices Is Not All That Good by Ranko

I love Silverlight. If you are reading this text, you know why. Looking at the various demos makes me want to work in Silverlight. When Microsoft.com offers me their download center in Silverlight I click the yes please option. The eye candy makes me...
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Is Developing Just About Writing Code? by Ranko

A couple of colleagues and I went to dinner a few weeks ago. As it does so often, we chatted about work stuff. It drifted to various topics, some more, some less on the personal side of life. One of the things I mentioned (or complained) was my unhappiness...
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First Thoughts On MVC.NET by Ranko

Finally some time for .net. Since Scott and Phil started writing about is I wanted to read and try out the MVC framework. So last night I managed to read a few blog posts on the topic, namely Scott's expectedly great series of posts and Phil's REST like...
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Community Server Cuts Personal And Small Business Licenses by Ranko

Yesterday Telligent, in an interesting turn of events if you ask me, announced that Personal and Small Business licenses for Community Server are no longer available . Yes, you read it right - not will not be available, but as of November 2nd, when it...
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ASP.NET Baby Steps by Ranko

When Joe made an open call to blog with ScottGu I had to at least try to get in. And I did. Now I have to make a first post before my cold feet get the better of me. Baby steps, you know ... The idea I pitched was that I'd write about getting into ASP...
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