Microsoft CRM - Risk estimation for CRM load-balancing needed |
- Risk estimation for CRM load-balancing needed
- Question about query
- Web client
- adding a schema into CRM
- CRM Professional Edition 1.2
- Orders Question - Urgent!
- Programmatically Send Email in CRM
- Email Router and Exchange 2003
- Office Solution Accelerator for Proposals
- week numbers
- Change Quote template
- CRM 1.2 and XP Service Pack 2 - Hotfix 870365
- Adding Status Reason field values not saving
- Quote.dot missing - URGENT!
- CRM 1.2 SDK / Retrieving contacts
- Error in Knowlegebase Search
- MS CRM and my Company requirements
- Server unwilling to process your request
- Can't customize contact form
- Data Migration for CustomerAddress table
- Data Migration Failed
- go offline and problems with contacts
- Customisation CRM 1.2
- Disabled Leads at all levels (including System Admin) cannot put b
| Risk estimation for CRM load-balancing needed Posted: 11 Mar 2005 07:24 AM PST Alfred, I have received mixed answers on the "supported" issue with load balancing. However, from what I understand, the "official" answer is it's supported from the CRM side, but they aren't going to help you configure the farm. The key is getting high enough up the support chain. I know that there can be some issues with getting Crystal to work properly in a farm, though it can be done. If performance is the concern (vs. reliability), than I think they are better off in just making sure both the SQL Server & the IIS/CRM server are good machines. 320 users isn't that big, unless they have a huge amount of data per user. I think there's a good chance they will be OK with the 2 server install if the boxes are sized well. Matt Parks MVP - Microsoft CRM ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:24:16 +0100, "Alfred Göbel \(MS\)" <com> wrote: Hi all, I have a very critical customer, who is aware of the fact that CRM 1.2 is over its limit in is environment. Shortly described as: - 320 users - a lot of changes with security roles - CRM Server and SQL Server on one machine. In the short term, the customer has been convinced that he has two split up CRM and SQL Server on two separate boxes. In the long term he thinks about the possibility in having CRM / IIS splitted up by Windows / Network Loadbalancing. It's not supported and the customer knows it as well. But has anyone done this so far and can provide me a technical risk estimation, what might not run, etc.? Thank your for your help, Alfred Göbel (MS) (Microsoft kann für die Richtigkeit und Vollständigkeit der Inhalte in dieser Newsgroup keine Haftung übernehmen.) |
| Posted: 11 Mar 2005 01:52 AM PST Thanks for reading the whole message Matt. Some days... -- Mj Miller Technical Lead Microsoft CRM This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Matt Parks" <com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Posted: 10 Mar 2005 08:05 PM PST I would try two things first: flush dns and register dns from the command prompt. (Start>Run, type cmd, type ipconfig /flsuhdns, press Enter, then type ipconfig /registerdns, Enter). If this doesn't fix it, try running MS Anti-Spyware and scanning the machines. I've seen this with a number of clients who get spyware on their machines and their browsers won't resolve intranet addresses. Good luck Matt Wittemann http://icu-mscrm.blogspot.com "Nathan Warner" wrote: |
| Posted: 10 Mar 2005 05:12 PM PST Actually, it depends on the fields being added. If you have already added about 10 fields and each was a string of length 50, then you are extremely close to the limit on the Contact table. Each 50 character string field will take up 100 bytes of the 8k limit as the product ships with close to 7k already used on that table. Matt Parks MVP - Microsoft CRM ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:24:35 +0000, JB <else> wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:12:02 -0800, "Sansanee" <com> wrote: There are limits on the schema fields added. These are, if memory serves correctly which it probably doesn't, that the total length of the attributes for fields in a table can not exceed 8192 bytes, ie SQL only allows 8k to describe the fields for a table. In practice you are unlikely to reach this limit after adding only 10 fields. The error reporting in CRM seems to be hidden. The real error messages are put into the event viewer, the error messages you see when running deployment manager are generally useless. We have also found the deployment manager to be unreliable it is prone to fail when creating schema and to not only fail but to not indicate what items have failed. If at all possible it is be better to keep any customised data in tables and databases separate from CRM, then you can access this directly through SQL, have control of the data and correct it if necessary. JB |
| Posted: 10 Mar 2005 02:15 PM PST Sorry for the confusion. My bad. My original question was about CRM, because BCM wouldn't work if Outlook was connected to an Exchange mailbox. Midway, I found an update to BCM that solved the problem. CRM is a whole different animal, obviously, and seems to require a very careful installation plan. jc "Matt Parks" wrote: |
| Posted: 10 Mar 2005 12:41 PM PST Hi Sylvie, I will see if I can customize this report to also include the products. Seems like a big oversite on Microsofts part that you can't print both together. Thanks so much for your reply. Shauna "Sylvie" wrote: |
| Programmatically Send Email in CRM Posted: 10 Mar 2005 06:53 AM PST This article in the SDK should provide you with all the information you need Create an E-Mail Activity Using Workflow: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnmbscrm1_2/html/mbs_crmemailactivity.asp Regards, Simon |
| Email Router and Exchange 2003 Posted: 10 Mar 2005 06:41 AM PST This is correct, one of my customer's had this requirement, and tested both the dedicated sub-domain model and the dedicated Exchange server model. Neither work. Although they didn't take this any further, I suspect you need to send all messages to an SMTP relay (Windows Server has an SMTP relay service as part of IIS), which can then bounce back any mail for @mymaildomain.com. Regards, Simon "Matt Parks" <com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Office Solution Accelerator for Proposals Posted: 10 Mar 2005 04:23 AM PST The Office Solution Acclerators have now been turned into community projects on http://www.gotdotnet.com The Office Solution Accelerator for Proposals workspace can be found at http://www.gotdotnet.com/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=173e82b7-e777-4522-a4c5-f4548a20f9ec Plans for a CRM version were shelved several months ago Regards, Simon |
| Posted: 10 Mar 2005 02:05 AM PST Thanks! "Support www.MSCRM-ADDONS.COM" <com_NOSPAM> schreef in bericht news:phx.gbl... |
| Posted: 10 Mar 2005 12:25 AM PST Hi, We came across the same issue when attempting to customize the Quote form for a customer and we recieved help from microsoft. It shows how to use and modify the quote template. If you would like to see this please feel free to e-mail me and i will send you a copy. com.au Regards, Nathan Warner JayThom Pty Ltd "Jytte" wrote: |
| CRM 1.2 and XP Service Pack 2 - Hotfix 870365 Posted: 09 Mar 2005 09:00 PM PST Arrrggghhh, 'ya know... you're right, it wasn't implemented on the server... Thanks, Boolean1 =========== "Serge Ayotte" <groupesci.com> wrote in message news:com... |
| Adding Status Reason field values not saving Posted: 09 Mar 2005 06:57 PM PST That was it. Had to publish "incident" customizations. "BarryL" wrote: |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2005 01:21 PM PST Hi Nathan, Yes I would be interested. I will e-mail you separately from this thread. Thanks for getting back to me on this. Shauna "Nathan Warner" wrote: |
| CRM 1.2 SDK / Retrieving contacts Posted: 09 Mar 2005 11:20 AM PST Hello Frank Wonder if you might want to bypass fetchxml entirely and query the contactbase table directly. While accessing the crm databases directly is not supported you are able to read the databases directly. Might help if we could understand what you want to do with the contacts once you have them -- John O'Donnell Microsoft CRM MVP http://www.mscrmfaq.us "Frank" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:60f201c524dd$07d6b0d0$gbl... |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2005 06:54 AM PST Hi, thanks for your reply. I think that this is a bug in SQL-Server. Because the error is returned from the SQL-Server fulltext search. For example if i type vi* it works. I don't know if ther is a way to get this fixed... But in CRM there is no way I think. regards, Marc "John O'Donnell" <com-nospam> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:phx.gbl... |
| MS CRM and my Company requirements Posted: 09 Mar 2005 06:47 AM PST Out of the Box Microsoft CRM will provide Contact/Client database Contact correspondance logging Product Database Basic Contract management Secure online access to my CRM from any internet connected PC anywhere (using HTTPS & Certificates or a VPN solution) Email communication with customer via CRM Mobile Contacts data access from PDA For the Customer Portal and Advanced Proposal & Contract Management as well as Central Document Library, then you need to add some modules from Axonom http://www.axonom.com Regards, Simon |
| Server unwilling to process your request Posted: 09 Mar 2005 06:05 AM PST Hi~ This may be an issue where the user you are trying to move is the manager for other users within the current business unit. To resolve this error remove the Microsoft CRM user's alias as Manager from other Microsoft CRM user(s). I have included the below steps to do this. 1. Open the Microsoft CRM web client, click Home, click Settings. 2. Within Settings click Business Unit Settings, click Users. 3. Within the User's window click the View drop down menu and select All Users. 4. Holding down the Ctrl key select each user that is listed as having the user to be moved as their Manager. 5. Click Actions and then select Change Manager. 6. The Change Manager window will appear. Click the magnifying glass icon and then click the Go button. 7. Select the new Manager that is in the same or parent Business Unit for these users. 8. Click OK. Click OK again to confirm the changes. 9. Attempt to move the Microsoft CRM user to a new Business Unit. 10. If the user is still not able to be moved, restart the Microsoft CRM Security Service, located on the Microsoft CRM server. You should be able to move the user to the new Business Unit. If you continue to receive the error, please refer to the items listed below: A. Try removing this user's role and license, then move them to a new business unit. B. Please verify this user is not currently logged into Microsoft CRM when trying to move them. C. Another possible cause is that the MSSQLSERVER and SQLSERVERAGENT services were running under a Domain account. Or CRM Server was not added to the Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access group. Kind Regards, Shawn Nulph | Microsoft CRM | Microsoft Business Solutions This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. You assume all risk for your use. © 2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2005 04:18 AM PST Thanks Now it works!!! "Mike R" <freeserve.co.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:d0msqq$mb7$1$demon.co.uk... |
| Data Migration for CustomerAddress table Posted: 09 Mar 2005 02:21 AM PST Thanks...I will rtry that and c if it works... "Mike R" wrote: |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2005 01:05 AM PST Hi Datapac... thanks for your reply. I found out y i cant import over...it's cos I didnt define the owner :) Thanks "Datapac" wrote: |
| go offline and problems with contacts Posted: 08 Mar 2005 11:51 PM PST If you have CRM admin rights all contacts from CRM will be synced down to your Outlook folder. The only way to get around this is either select the option for contacts not to sync to Outlook or put your user account into a different role where all contacts will not sync. Do not make the security role change to the default CRM admin role though. Always copy that role and make the change to the newly copied role. Kind Regards, Shawn Nulph | Microsoft CRM | Microsoft Business Solutions This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. You assume all risk for your use. © 2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. |
| Posted: 08 Mar 2005 11:25 PM PST You have 2 options 1. Create a windows service. Use a timer and monitor the database fo new emails that come into the QueueItemBase table in the cr database. (check the CreatedOn or ModifiedOn fields for the info). Cross reference the ObjectId in the QueueItemBase with the ActivityI in the ActivityBase table. Generate an email response and send it off.... (I know sounds ver simple). :wink: 2. Alternatively you can purchase a c360 component that does it fo you (including converting the email to a case and attaching the emai to the case) http://c360.com. We are a company with over 100 cr users, so the small costs for each license unfortunately adds up t too much for us (cheaper to develop in house....) :( I hope this helps Ala |
| Disabled Leads at all levels (including System Admin) cannot put b Posted: 08 Mar 2005 05:03 PM PST Here is the KB article for the CRM admin tool. You will need to contact Microsoft CRM support to get access to this tool. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;893102 Here are direct links to our support site: Microsoft Business Solutions support home page: <http://www.greatplains.com/support> To contact Support by phone: (888) 477-7877 Microsoft Support home page: <http://www.support.microsoft.com> Kind Regards, Shawn Nulph | Microsoft CRM | Microsoft Business Solutions This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. You assume all risk for your use. © 2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. |
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