Category Archives: Dynamics CRM 2013

Create a chart to compare Actual Revenue from Opportunity and Budgeted Amount from customer

Microsoft Dynamic CRM 2013/2011 provides an easy way to create different types of charts that helps user to analyze their data. We can create multi-series chart to compare multiple values side-by-side. One of our clients required a chart that will compare the Actual Revenue (Opportunity) and Budgeted Amount (Customer) group by month (Actual Close date).… Read More »

Creating a New Organization in CRM 2013 SP1 without Service enhancements already enabled

Introduction: After installing SP1 on existing CRM 2013 on-premise server, we need to enable the customer service enhancement features for each Org from Settings –>Administration –> Install Product Updates as shown in below screenshot: Once enabled, the Update can’t be uninstalled. What if you want to create an Org without the Product Updates installed on CRM… Read More »

Outlook offline sync error – “Invalid Argument error“

At times it happens that when you try to go offline from Outlook you may receive the following error when offline database size is exceeded and outlook is not able to store any more contacts, mails, attachments etc.: When you try to go offline for first time using CRM Outlook client for offline sync, it will create one… Read More »

Calendars, Holiday and Customer Service Scheduling in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 SP1

In a Customer – Vendor relationship, customer service is the most important aspect. With Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Service Pack 1 or Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Spring ’14, there have been many enhancements around service and we have discussed them in various articles on this blog. We can setup SLA’s for our customer service management,… Read More »

System Customizer role does not allow modifying Web Resources in Dynamics CRM 2013

Introduction: Recently, we came across a situation where we were only assigned System Customizer Role in a client environment to give dev access to the organization customizations. It was our understanding all along that System Customizer role is provided to developers for customizing the system and System Administrator being the other role that provided complete… Read More »