Splitting fullName column to first and lastname
This is something I find myself doing over and over and over again, when importing data to CRM, seeing as CRM wants the contacts as Firstname and Lastname. And the data I receive is very rarely in that condition. So I find myself having to split the column fairly often – and I always forget […]
Using KingswaySoft to migrate ClickDimensions
I was tasked with migrating a ClickDimensions solution from one Dynamics 365 to another Dynamics365 (both version 9.0). The only differences were, that it was a different CRM tenant and a newer version of ClickDimensions (v9.4.0 – the old was v9.2.0). Before starting a migration, which has quite a lot of entities and data, I […]
CRM Theme generator
This is by no means a new site, but I find myself comming back to it again and again, and I would like to share it with those, who have not yet discovered this little gem. https://crmthemes.azurewebsites.net/ This is a theme generator for Dynamics 365, where you can try different color setups for your CRM […]
Fixed: Metadata error in Outlook plugin after u...
I was recently presented with an error in the Dynamics 365 Outlook plugin, after the clients organization was upgraded from Dynamics 365 v8.2 to v9.0. After the upgrade, their outlook started to fail because of invalid metadata. The following error would be thrown when trying to connect to the CRM organization: Metadata contains a reference […]
Error installing SSDT for VS2017: Failed to acq...
Note: I have not yet been able to fix or workaround the issue described below I recently had to install VS2017 with KingswaySoft on a computer, and I ran into some issues in regard to the installation. After I had installed the Visual Studio software, I needed to install SSDT (15.5.0). When I attempted to […]
KingswaySoft Spring release v10
KingswaySoft recently released their spring 2018 release marked as version 10. This release introduces numerous awesome changes, which makes data integration and transformation a lot easier and seamless. Some of the changes include: The CRM Source component now includes a SQL to FetchXML converter which allows you to convert SQL script to FetchXML query directly […]