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    - Hardware Requirements for Small Scale CRM Demo Hi guys, I want to install SQL Server 2005 and CRM 3.0 on the following hardware: Dell 1400SC, 933Mhz PIII, 640MB RAM, 18GB U160 SCSI Q: Is this hardware going to be sufficient for a small scale demo or is it going to crawl? Robert Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53290
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    - crm email - no longer working V1.2 After a security risk was flagged up to our exchange server I made a very small change to our IIS configuration. Namely removing script mapping to .printer. After running and IISreset to ensure that change was applied we have had problems with CRM email. Namely that when you try to send a CRM email you get an error stating that: "An error has occurred. Please contact your system administrator". A referall to the event viewer reveals nothing of interest. A reboot of both the exchange and the CRM servers makes no difference. nor does applying rollup update 2 (on all of client/server/exchange router). I am guessing that I may need to reinstall the exchange router, but having inherited this system pre-installed, I have never had to do that. Is anyone able to advise on whether or not that is likely to resolve the issue and also how the reinstall is actually done. cheers P Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53287
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    - MS CRM 1.2 Register New incident from External source with SDK Hi I am creating a small application which stores the new incidents by using the SDK. I have added the .dll references of the assemblies Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Types, Microsoft.Crm.Platform.proxy and System.Web.Services. When I execute the code are no error messages, but does not register the new incident. This is the code Thanks, Gilbert Robinson the code ======= Imports Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Proxy Imports System.web.services Imports Microsoft.CRM.Flags Imports Microsoft.CRM.Platform.Types Public Class WebForm1 Inherits System.Web.UI.Page Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load codei() 'Put user code to initialize the page here End Sub Sub codei() ' strServer should be set with the name of the platform Web server Dim strServer As String = "im-dp-flow11" ' virtualDirectory should be set with the name of the Microsoft CRM ' virtual directory on the platform Web server Dim virtualDirectory As String = "MSCRMServices" Dim strDir As String = "http://" + strServer + "/" + virtualDirectory + "/" ' BizUser proxy object Dim bizUser As New Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Proxy.BizUser bizUser.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials bizUser.Url = strDir + "BizUser.srf" ' CRMIncident proxy object Dim incident As New Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Proxy.CRMIncident incident.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials incident.Url = strDir + "CRMIncident.srf" Dim strErrorMsg As String Dim strIncidentXml As String Dim strIncidentId As String Dim strAccountId As String = "{1BBD7C7F-9ADE-4972-A307-1181A57A5750}" Dim strCustomerId As String = "{ECF99EF1-3858-4E06-ABD9-EBFE526BF9FF}" Try Dim userAuth As Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Proxy.CUserAuth = bizUser.WhoAmI() ' Set up the XML string for the new incident strIncidentXml = "<incident>" strIncidentXml += "<title>Incident 1</title>" strIncidentXml += "<accountid>" + strAccountId + "</accountid>" strIncidentXml += "<ownerid type=""" + Microsoft.CRM.Platform.Types.ObjectType.otSystemUser.ToString(+""">") strIncidentXml += userAuth.UserId + "</ownerid>" strIncidentXml += "<customerid type=/ " + Microsoft.CRM.Flags.ObjectType.otSystemUser.ToString() + " / " > " ' " 'ToDo: Error processing original source shown below ' ' '------------------------------------------^--- Syntax error: ';' expected strIncidentXml += strCustomerId + "</ownerid>" strIncidentXml += "</incident>" ' Create an incident strIncidentId = incident.Create(userAuth, strIncidentXml) ' 'ToDo: Error processing original source shown below ' ' '-^--- Syntax error: ')' expected Catch err As System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException ' Process the platform error here strErrorMsg = "ErrorMessage: " + err.Message + " " + err.Detail.OuterXml + " Source: " + err.Source Catch err As Exception ' Process other errors here strErrorMsg = "ErrorMessage: " + err.Message End Try End Sub End Class Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53283
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    - Add new incident from external source with SDK Hi I am creating a small application which stores the new incidents by using the SDK. I have added the .dll references of the assemblies Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Types, Microsoft.Crm.Platform.proxy and System.Web.Services. When I execute the code are no error messages, but does not register the new incident. This is the code Thanks, Gilbert Robinson the code ======= Imports Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Proxy Imports System.web.services Imports Microsoft.CRM.Flags Imports Microsoft.CRM.Platform.Types Public Class WebForm1 Inherits System.Web.UI.Page #Region " Web Form Designer Generated Code " 'This call is required by the Web Form Designer. <System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent() End Sub 'NOTE: The following placeholder declaration is required by the Web Form Designer. 'Do not delete or move it. Private designerPlaceholderDeclaration As System.Object Private Sub Page_Init(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Init 'CODEGEN: This method call is required by the Web Form Designer 'Do not modify it using the code editor. InitializeComponent() End Sub #End Region Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load codei() 'Put user code to initialize the page here End Sub Sub codei() ' strServer should be set with the name of the platform Web server Dim strServer As String = "im-dp-flow11" ' virtualDirectory should be set with the name of the Microsoft CRM ' virtual directory on the platform Web server Dim virtualDirectory As String = "MSCRMServices" Dim strDir As String = "http://" + strServer + "/" + virtualDirectory + "/" ' BizUser proxy object Dim bizUser As New Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Proxy.BizUser bizUser.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials bizUser.Url = strDir + "BizUser.srf" ' CRMIncident proxy object Dim incident As New Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Proxy.CRMIncident incident.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials incident.Url = strDir + "CRMIncident.srf" Dim strErrorMsg As String Dim strIncidentXml As String Dim strIncidentId As String Dim strAccountId As String = "{1BBD7C7F-9ADE-4972-A307-1181A57A5750}" Dim strCustomerId As String = "{ECF99EF1-3858-4E06-ABD9-EBFE526BF9FF}" Try Dim userAuth As Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Proxy.CUserAuth = bizUser.WhoAmI() ' Set up the XML string for the new incident strIncidentXml = "<incident>" strIncidentXml += "<title>Incident 1</title>" strIncidentXml += "<accountid>" + strAccountId + "</accountid>" strIncidentXml += "<ownerid type=""" + Microsoft.CRM.Platform.Types.ObjectType.otSystemUser.ToString(+""">") strIncidentXml += userAuth.UserId + "</ownerid>" strIncidentXml += "<customerid type=/ " + Microsoft.CRM.Flags.ObjectType.otSystemUser.ToString() + " / " > " ' " 'ToDo: Error processing original source shown below ' ' '------------------------------------------^--- Syntax error: ';' expected strIncidentXml += strCustomerId + "</ownerid>" strIncidentXml += "</incident>" ' Create an incident strIncidentId = incident.Create(userAuth, strIncidentXml) ' 'ToDo: Error processing original source shown below ' ' '-^--- Syntax error: ')' expected Catch err As System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException ' Process the platform error here strErrorMsg = "ErrorMessage: " + err.Message + " " + err.Detail.OuterXml + " Source: " + err.Source Catch err As Exception ' Process other errors here strErrorMsg = "ErrorMessage: " + err.Message End Try End Sub End Class Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53282
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    - how to... hi all, using crm 3.0 on 2003 ent. i have added a new tab into the Appointment Form which has some bit and picklist attributes for a survey form. i will be opening more than 3 or more Appointments for the same company and when creating a new Appointment activity , i want to see the last appointment's data on it, this way i will be able to analyze the incrementation beetween appointments For example. i am creating the first Appointment Activity saving and closing it, then after a week later, i am creating a new activity for the same company and the first activities data is already shown, i am changing whatever is needed and saving and closing and so on. couldn't figure out a way. any help? thank you Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53278
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    - Mail Merger with Webclient It's possible to do a Mail Merge with the Webclient? I know how it works with the outlook client but no idea how it should work with the webclient. Thank's for some help Michel Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53277
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    - Picking up previous lead owner when assigning a lead May not be seeing the wood for the trees here but... I have created a rule which fires off an email when a lead is assigned - however I would like to be able to pick up the id of the person who did the assigning... the fields list in the lead doesn't seem to have this info - any suggestions? Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53274
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    - Register an Appointment using the outlook interface and CRM 3.0 I want to make an appointment for myself with one contact of one of my account but these contact does not have any email adress. If I use the outlook interface I put the name of the account on regarding but where can I put the required or attendees persons ? Because thes persons do not have email adress they don't appear in the adress book but I have to mention the name of the person and to link the appointment with this person in the CRM. It seems to be totaly impossible ! It is very frustrating because Microsoft said the the new 3.0 version was better than the 1.2 that we used since last year and that this version was totaly intergated with the CRM It don't seems to be right. Can somebody explain what we have to do to register an appointment via the outlook interface and for that appointment to be correctly linked to CRM ??? Thanks in advance Best Regards Didier Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53271
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    - Assign a task using Outllook interface with CRM 3.0 It seem to be impossible to assing a task to another user when you create and manage task within outlook. If I am in outlook and I click ont the task button of the CRM toolbar I can add a regarding (the name of the account for which I have to do the task) and put a subject and a due date But... It is impossible to and a time which is very annoying because the time is used by CRM task It is impossible to use the assing the task to another user with the outlook button "assign task". I receive the message Assigned tasks are not supported in Microsoft CRM. The item will not be linked to Microsoft CRM I am very frustrated with this answer because I thought the integration was better than in the past version (1.2) that we used ! Can somebody tell me how to solve these two problems ??? Thanks in advance Didier Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53270
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    - MS CRM - C360 Hi, Can anyone advise on the server spec for running MS CRM for about 1400 cases a day ? I am also experincing problems with mails being held up by MS C-360 any ideas ???? -- Mark Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53269
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    - Categorizing email history Hi, Can anyone tell me whether the two fields called "category" and "sub category" can be used when tracking emails to CRM ? It seems that it is not possible to enter anything into these fields. What can they be used for ? Rgds, Partner Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53268
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    - Multilanguage Environment A customer needs for his employees in several countries (and different languages!) a central CRM-solution. Can I use different languages on one installation, and where can I define the language - per user, PC, ... ??? I have also to define the labels, helptext for my individual new fields in different language. Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53266
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    - subject entity customization seems impossible Hi everybody, I hoped I could change the name of the "subject" entity. However, this entity, as well as other customizable entities does not seem to allow customization of any information that appears on the general tab of the informations menu item. How may I change this name ? I tried another method, namely, "export customization", modify the name in the xml file and then "import customization". However, it seems impossible to publish this customization, so that the entity name quickly reverts to its previous value. Thank you to anyone who can help me achieve this goal. Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53264
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    - Reinstalling MSCRM 1.2 failure Hello everybody, I wanted to reinstall MSCRM 1.2 on our SBS 2003 server but I receive the following error message : "Failed to connect to database _MSCRM on <sql_server_name>. hr: 0x80004005" Can anyone help me !!!! Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53259
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    - How to change CRM 3.0 MSDN licence key? We are going to replace the CRM 3.0 MSDN licence key(only 5 users, not enough!) by purchase license key. Thanks! Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53258
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    - Updating data in MS CRM from other places Hi all We use relationships extensively but find that when using Advanced Find we can't define the joins necessary to create the set of Contacts required for a marketing list. (I think it would be good if I could save an Advanced Find, and then be able to use that within another Advanced Find - like a sub-query - but that's another matter). Anyway, as a quick solution, I have used queries in MS Access to identify the list of Contacts required. I have customised, adding a new field to the Contact table, and want to be able to set this field from in MS Access on those Contact rows I've identified - I can then use Advanced Find over this field, and build the marketing list I want. However, it won't let me I guess because they're non-updateable filtered views in Access ... Can anyone tell me the easiest/best workaround for this? We have Scribe (although not experienced) and of course I could go to Enterprise Manager and run the UPDATE query in there - want to avoid this if possible. (I also don't want to have to buy/install an add-in). Can anyone help? Many thanks. Matt Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53257
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    - Error when using Workflow assembly I created an assembly and added the reference to the workflow.config file. I stopped and started the IIS and the workflow service. Then I created a workflow rule that uses the new assembly. However when the workflow starts to run I generate an error on the workflow monitor saying that the dll appears to be an unsigned assembly which is disabled from executing as specified in workflow.config. Does anyone know what have I done wrong? Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53254
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    - 3.0 Laptop Client Install Failing Having a heck of a time getting the Outlook client to install on any of the client machines. Starting with a single notebook, I get the following error when installing from SBS or directly from the CD. An incompatible version of the Microsoft CRM desktop client for Outlook or the Microsoft CRM laptop client for Outlook is already installed on this computer: Product: Microsoft CRM laptop client for Microsoft Office Outlook, Version: 3.0.5300.0, User: . Before continuing the current installation, remove the incompatible version. All other test are green checked. 3.0 is the only version ever to be installed on this notebook. I have never gotten the client to show up in Add Remove Programs. The only CRM reference on the notebook is the MSDE SQL CRM that I have uninstalled/reinstalled numerous times. I also have tried removing all registry lines containing 3.0.5300 in them and those referencing CRM. In addition the Microsoft SQL and Microsoft CRM folder are deleted before each reinstall attempt. I don't know why, even if something was missed in the registry, the program will not allow an overinstall of the same version......? Any help would be appreciated. Hopefully the answer will shed light on the other stations as well. Thanks, John Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53243
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    - Outlook client does not stop synchronizing Hi There, I have rolled out CRM 3 on a clients SBS 2003 server without issues, but I am having problems with one of the client machines. There have been 3 clients installed so far without issue, only this machine is causing headaches. The installation goes ahead without issue, but when you open outlook for the first time it appears to hang and becomes non responsive. I let it run for almost two hours only to find by looking at the network card that there has been 4Gb sent and 8Gb received. The database itself has around 5000 records (made up of leads, accounts, contacts,etc...), but the user I am installing for has a mailbox of just over 2Gb (I only do crm for this company, actual IT support is handled by someone else). The laptop is brand new and the user has had it for around a month without having any problems. I will be back on the clients site in a few hours, until then I do not have any log files or anything, just wanted to see if someone else had a similar issue. I can get any log files required when back on site. Any ideas? Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53226
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    - Outlook client does not stop synchronizing Hi There, I have rolled out CRM 3 on a clients SBS 2003 server without issues, but I am having problems with one of the client machines. There have been 3 clients installed so far without issue, only this machine is causing headaches. The installation goes ahead without issue, but when you open outlook for the first time it appears to hang and becomes non responsive. I let it run for almost two hours only to find by looking at the network card that there has been 4Gb sent and 8Gb received. The database itself has around 5000 records (made up of leads, accounts, contacts,etc...), but the user I am installing for has a mailbox of just over 2Gb (I only do crm for this company, actual IT support is handled by someone else). The laptop is brand new and the user has had it for around a month without having any problems. I will be back on the clients site in a few hours, until then I do not have any log files or anything, just wanted to see if someone else had a similar issue. I can get any log files required when back on site. Any ideas? Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53224
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    - Add a Picklist to a Contact Address form in the metadata attribute I am trying to add a picklist item called country to the contacts address. I have already added it to the entity address. I then went to the attribute table and created two records that follow the format of shipping methods two records. One for the Code Value and the other for the name of the value selected in the picklist. Next I went into the settings and then contact entity and clicked on attributes and found my picklist for country was there. If I double clicked on the picklist it does not have a display name or any values. If I try to add a display name and save it I get an error because I am missing records that attach this picklist with the one in address table. I checked the other tables in the metadata database and there does not seem to be any other table I need to add records to. What other tables do I need to add records to and how can I get my custom picklist on the contact for country to tie to the picklist on the address table. What is the schema layout to support the entities and the forms for these entities? I know what I am wanting to do is unsupported but I need country and state as picklist for the contact and Account. Thanks Mike Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53222
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    - Creating new contacts also creates contacts in Outlook Hi, I have a question regarding contacts. I have created a client contact in CRM and when going into my personal contacts in Outlook (My Contacts), the new client contact has been saved in My Contacts area along with my existing personal contacts. Is there a way of preventing the new contact from being saved amongst my personal contacts, or is this how CRM behaves? Thanks, Natalie. Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53220
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    - Object refererence & user manager Like many here I've been pulling my hair out trying to get CRM upgraded from 1.2 to 3.0. I'm gettting closer I think but now when I open configuration manager and navigate to the the user manager node, I get an error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" It appears to happen when the list of configured users is being populated and the list remains blank. When I try to add a user, the progress bar indictaes that 1 of X users is being configured and configuration manager closes altogether. The licenses node indicates that three licenses are installed. When I open the site in IE, I get an authentication error no matter what account I use that was previously configured for 1.2. Is there a way to mnually remove te 3 licenses and their associated users so that maybe user manager will populate properly? All users have first and last names. Any other thoughts? TIA! Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53218
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    - Enable Drag and Drop in the Service Scheduling Calendar The Service Scheduling Calendar provides a visual representation of scheduled activities but does not lend itself to real life situations e.g., an engineer has gone off sick and the scheduler has to assign jobs to various other engineers quickly or there has been a traffic holdup and there is a knock on effect. Enabling drag and drop of scheduled activities both in horizontally (date/time) and vertically (resources) would vastly improve the usability. I have had two customers this last week who have told me the Service Scheduling, as it stands, cannot be used in their businesses as it is too inflexible and is not a "scheduler" tool ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/Businesssolutions/Community/NewsGroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?mid=a7bb3aec-4011-4285-9b8d-6cfb99271498&dg=microsoft.public.crm Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53215
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    - Ryan Farley's Hiding & Showing Fields at runtime blogg Hi, I tried to hide a field using the following javascript on the OnLoad event for the Case Entitiy form: crmForm.all.contractdetailid_c.style.display = 'hidden'; crmForm.all.contractdetailid_d.style.display = 'hidden'; Apparently there's an error in my javascript Any ideas? I also tried it on a new custom entity, still an error, either my object is null or doesn't exist. Also tried = 'none' AND tried = '' crmForm.all.new_description_c.style.display = 'hidden'; crmForm.all.new_description_d.style.display = 'hidden'; Any corrections graciously accepted, thks Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53211
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    - CRM SBE Configuration Wizard Rather than experimenting with each option in order to see what happens, I hoping to find some detailed documentation on this feature... can anyone help? thanx, Joem Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53209
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    - Installing the CRM3.0 Exchange router failed Hello, I was trying to install the router on the exchange server prior the upgrading the server, and I got the following message: action Microsoft.CRM.setup.Exchange.Installserviceaction failed. Input string was not in a correct format. Any idea what is the problem here. -- M@gi Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53208
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    - Fax setup in CRM 3.0 We try to send a fax within CRM and get the following error: "An error has occurred. For more information contact your system administrator." What is causing this? Does anyone know where we can makeconfiguration changes relating to faxing in CRM? Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53206
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    - Seeking Help, Report Services Error (CRM_locale issue), No Reports I cannot get any reports to generate in CRM 3.0. The error below appears. The property â??nullableâ?? of report parameter â??CRM_Localeâ?? is set to false. However, the corresponding parameter (default) value is null or contains an empty string. (rsProcessingError) Get Online Help Can anyone please help with this as basically the system is useless without reporting. The reporting services seem to be available. I have searched everywhere but can find no solution. It seems to have appeared on this newsgroup a number of times but with no solution provided. Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53203
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    - USING CRM I am new to MSCRM. I have installed CRM1.2 and Find that I have workflow monitor, workflow manager, and deployment manager. When I launch workfolow monitor or workflow manager I get the error, "the localhost is not responding. This might happen if is currently unavailable or is not a microsoft CRM Server. For more information, contact your system administrator". I try the ip address of the server and the server name and SQL Server name and get the same error. On the other hand I am not sure what I am supposed to be seeing. I though I followed the installation process and am not sure why it is not working. Thx Jerryc Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53202
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    - Dispalying address on the contract form (CRM 3.0) Is there any way to include the actual contract address (vs. lookup to it) in the contract form or any other view/advance find? I need it to generate an excel file for all contracts that meet certain criteria. Thanks for any advice! Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53199
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    - Allow a New Case to be Created from the Outlook Client ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/Businesssolutions/Community/NewsGroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?mid=f052acad-0d84-4747-93c0-e13bfb2007e9&dg=microsoft.public.crm Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53198
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    - CRM v3 Outlook Client documentation Are there any good docs (white papers?) that describe how the new Outlook Client sync works? I don't see any in the KB or in the user forums. thanks, Paul -- Paul Boiano CRM Practice Manager Synergy Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53192
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    - Bulk Email: Outlook client:"Direct email via Mail Merge is off". I am trying to test bulk email before a big demo. I am following along the task list provided by John O'Donnell in another discussion. When I click to distribute the activity (launched from Outlook) I get a message box that states "Direct email via mail merge is off. The activity cannot be distributed. Please contact your system administrator." I am using the CRM 3.0 VPC. What do I need to do to enable email via mail merge? CRM settings? Or other settings? Thank you in advance. Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53182
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    - Multiple products on Cases We want to associate multiple products with a case. We cannot accomplish this via lookups. In order for us to take full advantage of the functionality that you are attempting to create in this product we need to add multiple products on a case just as the way products are handled in Opportunities on the Sales side. Can we have this tomorrow? Seriously, this is functionality that we desperately need. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/Businesssolutions/Community/NewsGroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?mid=be7751fc-df6e-4f2a-a48c-a4d54375bb7d&dg=microsoft.public.crm Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53180
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    - Microsoft CRM Communications with outlook...."There is a problem communicating with CRM Server", and "an error occurred while loading Microsoft CRM funtionality. Try restarting outlook" I not only attempted restarting it but reloading it. Has anyone else encountered these errors? If so what did you do to repair them? Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53177
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    - renaming Outlook crm folders Hi, Has anyone been able to rename the crm folders in outlook and keep then renamed? They just change back when you go online again. I guess the server synchronizes everything with the server and just takes over the names from the server. Is there a way to work around this? changing the isv.config.xsd on the client pc maybe? Thx Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53167
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    - Export to Excel problem Hello all I have tried to export a list to Excel. I click on the Excel button, and I am asked whether I want to open or save the file. If I cancel, CRM closes. If I click open, Excel opens, gets populated and then CRM closes. If I click save i get prompted to save the list, Excel opens with the data and CRM closes. What gives? how can i create a dynamic worksheet? Why is CRM closing? TIA Saira Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53165
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    - Take Shared records OFFLINE Does anyone know how to setup the LOCALDATA in the Laptop client to take SHARED records offline? Thanks, Nick Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53163
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    - Upgrading from 1.2 to 3.0 with PowerTrack Installed Just wondering if anyone out there has upgraded to 3.0 with PowerTrack installed. We are hoping that 3.0 has the functionality we gained from PowerTrack, natively. My gut seems to think that it might be better to do a fresh install and try to migrate the data from 1.2 into 3.0. Is there a process for this? If there is, can I have 2 installations of MSCRM 1.2 & 3.0 running at the same time in the same domain. If migrating is not possible, what issues might we run into when upgrading to 3.0 with PowerTrack installed. Thank You, Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53162
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    - Queue to a case Relates to the Service Module in CRM. I have set up Queues in the CRM module to which users can send emails from their desktop. I would like some of these emails to be converted to a CASE, automatically with some basic fields filled in from the email content. I was told that version 3.0 is capable of doing this, but am still trying to figure out how to achieve this. Has anyone succeeded in being able to do this? Any advice would be appreciated. Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53161
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    - teams and business units I created a team in CRM 3 and would like to delete it, but cannot see how. Is this possible? Saira Tag: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? Tag: 53158
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Hi guys,

I'm planning on doing a demo for a client of CRM 3.0. I have a server
kicking around with 640MB RAM, 18GB SCSI U160 drive and a 933Mhz PIII
processor. I want to install SQL Server 2005 and CRM 3.0 on this box.

Q: Will this be sufficient to demo CRM to just a few users at once with a
couple hundred account records? Or is it going to be so painfully slow as to
affect their evaluation of the product?

Robert J. Bullock
Upstate Internet Services

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Re: Hardware Requirements for Demo Server? by Alan

Alan
Wed Feb 22 12:51:43 CST 2006

It will be painfully slow to boot up and to initially cache the pages.
Once running it should be fast enough for evaluation. However, initial
impressions count for a lot and you could be doing more harm than good with
the 640 mb of ram.

"MS" <robert@upstateis.com> wrote in message
news:eAMraM8NGHA.208@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm planning on doing a demo for a client of CRM 3.0. I have a server
> kicking around with 640MB RAM, 18GB SCSI U160 drive and a 933Mhz PIII
> processor. I want to install SQL Server 2005 and CRM 3.0 on this box.
>
> Q: Will this be sufficient to demo CRM to just a few users at once with a
> couple hundred account records? Or is it going to be so painfully slow as
> to affect their evaluation of the product?
>
> Robert J. Bullock
> Upstate Internet Services
>

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