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Comment on Training Session Management- a Dynamics CRM – xRM example by stephenvnoe

stephenvnoe — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:44:27 +0000

Both types of entities are easy to create, so I recommend you create one of each and play with them. There are a lat of additional features hidden in the custom activity, so it’s best to try it out as you go. The service activity is probably the best starting point for you here. We are in the process of designing a new event management system and we used a structure of custom entities: Event/Sesson/Registration to manage the overall process, but extended it into the calendar by creating plug-ins that create and manage Service Activities. Each service activity tracks the session team as resources and attendees as customers.

Comment on Training Session Management- a Dynamics CRM – xRM example by Erkki Jantunen

Erkki Jantunen — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:53:12 +0000

Hi,

We just started to use Dynamics CRM. I am responsible of our customer traing and would like to track those in CRM. I just want to track traings and who attended those. What would you recommend? Is it a lot of if work to create custom a normal custom entity or should I use custom activity?

Comment on CRM 2011 Customization Course 80294 and Exam MB2-866 by Lindsay

Lindsay — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:37:20 +0000

Hi Steve, I do realize I’m replying to a rather old post, but it’s still helpful to this newbie MCT, so belated thanks! I liked the course and the exam and I look forward to teaching it.

Comment on Hosting CRM 2011 Training VMs on Windows 8 Hyper-V by Przemek

Przemek — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 06:56:16 +0000

I checked it twice…config file is stored:
“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\CRM2011\Drives\CRM2011APP-NYC-DC1\config.xml”

Comment on Hosting CRM 2011 Training VMs on Windows 8 Hyper-V by stephenvnoe

stephenvnoe — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:18:10 +0000

Not sure why you are getting that. It has something to do with the replace of “Export – for testing” you are supposed to do, are you sure you saved it back into the correct directory?

Comment on Hosting CRM 2011 Training VMs on Windows 8 Hyper-V by Przemek

Przemek — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:14:18 +0000

Nope; as MCT I used standard procedure described in virtual setup and based on your description I made modification in config.xml file;
unfortunately at end system inform me that:

[Main Instruction]
Hyper-V function error under import.
[Content]
Access denied to the disk.
[Expanded Information]
Access denied to disk C:\Export – for testing\CRM2011APP-NYC-DC1\Virtual Hard Disks\Base10A-WS08R2-HV.vhd: System cannot find path.(0×80070003).

but config file is modified(?!)

Comment on Hosting CRM 2011 Training VMs on Windows 8 Hyper-V by stephenvnoe

stephenvnoe — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:35:18 +0000

Your request is a little vague. If you want to post the specifics or send me an email with screen shots I can try to assist, but I did not have any issues. Perhaps you are attempting to install the VMS from a shared folder on another server, which I did not try nor do I recommend. I created a local folder on a local drive fot he VMs to be created and installed upon.

Does that help?

Comment on Hosting CRM 2011 Training VMs on Windows 8 Hyper-V by Przemek

Przemek — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:13:52 +0000

Hi Stephen; I tried this method without success unfortunately; Can you share any additional description; finally I received error regarding folder access

Comment on Windows 8 on an iPad? Really? by Brad

Brad — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:38:12 +0000

Thanks I have the same RDP app and tested on win8. Works like a charm on iPhone too.

Comment on CRM 2011 Customization Course 80294 and Exam MB2-866 by Hosting CRM 2011 Training VMs on Windows 8 Hyper-V - Microsoft Dynamics CRM Usability - CRM Technical Blogs - Microsoft Dynamics Community

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:27:40 +0000

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