Tyler Sand

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Name: Tyler Sand
Date registered: April 30, 2009
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Latest posts

  1. Scribe Insight 7.5 Released! — December 29, 2011
  2. CRM 2011 Update Rollup 3 — July 28, 2011
  3. BPOS to Office 365 Transition — June 30, 2011
  4. Unable to Configure CRM 4.0 Outlook Client After Installing CRM 2011 Outlook Client — June 29, 2011
  5. Set Default Microsoft Outlook Profile — June 29, 2011

Most commented posts

  1. Scribe Custom Database Function — 3 comments
  2. Set Default Microsoft Outlook Profile — 1 comment
  3. CRM 2011 Update Rollup 3 — 1 comment

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Dec
29

Scribe Insight 7.5 Released!

Last week, Scribe Software released the long awaited Scribe Insight 7.5.  The biggest new feature of the release is support for Unicode, which is of particular importance for international users, however it also included over 24 bug fixes, several of which I have run into so having them finally resolved is great news!  In addition, …

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Jul
28

CRM 2011 Update Rollup 3

Microsoft has just released Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011! This Update Rollup provides many new fixes for documented issues and is cumulative, therefore including all of the fixes from Update Rollups 1 and 2. For additional information on Update Rollup 3, please visit the following Microsoft KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2547347 To download Update …

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Jun
30

BPOS to Office 365 Transition

Summit Group Software is officially participating in the BPOS to Office 365 TAP migration program. I plan to share as many details as possible about the migration process as we proceed in order to make it as easy as possible for other organizations. Yesterday, we had an introduction call and here were the most important …

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Jun
29

Unable to Configure CRM 4.0 Outlook Client After Installing CRM 2011 Outlook Client

Yesterday, one of my users replaced their Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Outlook client with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Outlook client for a customer demo and when he tried to revert back to the CRM 4.0 Outlook client, was unable to successfully run the Configuration Wizard. Here was the error that he received: Error| Configuration exception.System.Exception: …

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Jun
29

Set Default Microsoft Outlook Profile

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Most BPOS customers have a problem noticed after installing the Microsoft Online Services Sign In tool that Outlook starts prompting users to select a profile when opening, even when only one profile exists. To automatically default a profile, follow these steps: 1. Open the Control Panel 2. Select Mail 3. Click Show Profiles… 4. Choose Always …

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Jun
06

Support for Scribe Insight 6.5.x Being Discontinued

Scribe Workbench

Support for Scribe Insight 6.5.x will be discontinued on June 30, 2011. If you are running Scribe Insight 6.5.x or earlier, it is highly recommended that you upgrade to a supported version (Scribe Insight 7.0.x) as soon as possible. Please contact Summit Group Software to get your upgrade scheduled as soon as possible! To check …

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Apr
06

Loop through all controls in a section

Here is a helpful code sample that loops through all controls within a specific section and sets the requirement level of each related attribute. Tab Name: tab_5 Section Name: details_customerinformation Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(“tab_5″).sections.get(“details_customerinformation”).controls.forEach(function (control, index) { var attribute = control.getAttribute(); attribute.setRequiredLevel(“required”); });

Nov
09

Google Closure Compiler and Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Google has just released their JavaScript development toolbox which itself is not supported for use with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, however it does include a component called the Closure Inspector which will optimize, compress, and debug JavaScript code.  The compression removes all of the unnecessary white space, so gone are the days of painfully trying to …

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Oct
28

Automatic Credit Memo Notifications – Summit Messenger

We recently implemented a solution (that we are now calling Summit Messenger) for a customer to automatically send credit memo notification emails from Microsoft Dynamics GP to their customers.  Each quarter, the customer runs a SQL Reporting Services report to determine the credit that should be applied to each of their customers.  Rather than having to …

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Jul
13

Scribe Custom Database Function

Currently Scribe Insight has a function for running SQL queries, however it only supports running them against the source, target, and internal databases.  The lack of this functionality has caused me issues in the past when I have needed to query for external data.  For example, say that you are using the CRM Publisher to …

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