Matt Gronbeck

Author's details

Name: Matt Gronbeck
Date registered: April 30, 2009
URL: http://

Latest posts

  1. Migrating RTF Notes from Goldmine or ACT! — January 4, 2011
  2. Spell Check Microsoft Dynamics CRM Text Boxes — November 3, 2009
  3. Importing Excel Data into Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and Converter Tool — September 14, 2009
  4. Error Changing AD Login in CRM User Record — August 7, 2009

Most commented posts

  1. Error Changing AD Login in CRM User Record — 2 comments

Author's posts listings

Jan
04

Migrating RTF Notes from Goldmine or ACT!

010411_1910_MigratingRT1.jpg

When implementing Microsoft Dynamics CRM for customers, it is common to migrate the notes, and if you are migrating data out of a different CRM system like Goldmine or ACT!, the old notes may be in rich text format. RTF text fields will have tags like this encompassing the note or other text field. {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 …

Continue reading »

Nov
03

Spell Check Microsoft Dynamics CRM Text Boxes

crmspellcheck

I was approached by a customer today with a request for  e-mails written from CRM to include spell-checking capability.  Knowing that CRM doesn’t natively spell-check, I did a little searching for a generic Internet Explorer add-on that could spell-check any text box in IE. One of the first that came up was called ie7pro, at …

Continue reading »

Sep
14

Importing Excel Data into Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and Converter Tool

Many times when setting up a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 implementation it is necessary to import existing data into the new CRM system. Commonly, this data comes from Excel Spreadsheets, or the system it came from has a way to export it into Excel. Microsoft provides two tools for importing data into CRM natively.  One, the …

Continue reading »

Aug
07

Error Changing AD Login in CRM User Record

Today I was approached with a request to change a CRM user’s username after changing the login in Active Directory. Seems like this would be a simple task to do through CRM, however when I tried it and pressed Save, I received this error:   “You are attempting to create a user with a domain …

Continue reading »