CRM 2011 : CRM Ready Organization - Training

My customers wants me to deliver End User training as part of CRM Ready Organization program

I made a short training program (25 minutes) to create understanding on CRM and its importance following the Workshops (which I will write later).

OneDrive location to the presentation.

OneDrive location to the training manual.

CRM 2011 : CRM Ready Organization - Implementation Plan

One of my customers wanted to be CRM Ready Organization, they hired me to take this up.

I created plan of action which you can take as a reference to deliver CRM 2011 or 2013 implementation.

OneDrive location to the proposed action plan.

CRM 2011 - End User Training Guide

Microsoft has published an excellent resource on CRM 2011 End User Training.

OneDrive location to find the training guide.

Deploying CRM 2011 on Windows Azure - Part I

To start with I've subscribed for FREE Trial account on Windows Azure and thanks to my friend Arshad Hussain for doing that.

Following tasks I planned to accomplish:

• Creating a Disk Storage
• Creating a Cloud Service
• Create Virtual Network
• Creating 3 Virtual Machines:
1. Domain Controller - Windows Server 2012 Data Center
2. SQL Server 2012 with Windows Server 2012 Data Center
3. CRM 2011 with Windows Server 2012 Data Center

With the release of CRM 2011 Update Rollup 13 it's now possible to install CRM 2011 on Windows Server 2012 - so I decided to take it as a challenge.

Don't know whether I shall call it an extensive exercise on going through all the installations, deployment issues but it was worthwhile lesson.

Keep reading.... coming up next....

Windows Azure is a 5 star cloud infrastructure (IaaS)

I better right a book on my experience with Windows Azure FREE trial and the results are unbelievable.

My next couple of posts will cover experience of this 5 star cloud infrastructure which allowed me testing the capabilities of Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012 and CRM 2011 without hassles.

Stay tuned...on my way.

Yet the most simple way of differentiating between types of licenses available.

While browsing through CRM 2011 Licensing related blogs, I came through this simple to understand post explaining the difference between types of licenses available.

Here is the real post and hopefull author won't mind promoting his blog here :)
https://community.dynamics.com/crm/f/117/t/125000.aspx

CRM 2011 - Redeploying an existing organization - Part VII

After successfully importing the organization, installing and configuring the Email Router - it's time to let the user enjoy the glory but wait! i was unaware of the incoming issue :(

"Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook cannot be configured while Microsoft Outlook is running.  Close Outlook and try again."

The above message appeared when I try to use "Manage Organization" from with in Outlook so it should connect to the existing organization on the newly created CRM instance with a new name.

How did I solved this - I was actually trying to remove the organization from a different location instead I've to use All Programs -> Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 -> Configuration Wizard. Once opened I removed the existing CRM server link and added the new one.

-Best.