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The Case for Microsoft CRM Unified Service Desk
The Case for Microsoft CRM Unified Service Desk For the last 20 years, I have seen technology go in a virtual circle. When I started my career, I worked at…
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Case Study: Rapid Application Prototyping
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Case Study: Azure Disaster Recovery Configuration
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Sitecore and Dynamics CRM: Driving User Experience and Product Catalogs
So I have talked about linking Dynamics CRM and Sitecore here and here, but I just wanted to drive home a sample use case for linking these systems together. Lets say…
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Disabling automatic database upgrades when upgrading Microsoft Dynamics or installing updates
When managing multi sever Dynamics implementations for our clients. It has always been beneficial to disable the automatic database upgrades which occur when you are either doing a full version…
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How to connect Microsoft Azure SQL to Office Access
In my previous post here, we discussed how to assign Office 365 permissions to Azure SQL databases. In this post, I will explain how to setup a ODBC connection with…
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"Invalid User Authorization – The user authentication passed to the platform is not valid" error after upgrading to Dynamics 365
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How to setup Azure Active Directory/Office 365 Authentication with Azure SQL database (PaaS)
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Use CREATE OR ALTER For New SQL Object Scripts
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Migrate Sage ACT! to Microsoft Dynamics CRM
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