Just out of curiousity I created a twitter account (frndlyCRMonster). Hmmm, I am little worried, because the last time I did something like this I ended up with this blog... ;-)
So if I have access and am in the mood, you could find me on twitter too. Of course you still could read my posting or my columns at msdynamicsworld.com.
Enjoy!
I hoped I could attend the WPC this year, but I am in the middle of big migration project. Nevertheless, I heard already some new rumors about new products and alliances in Dynamics CRM world.
If you lucky you could hear it yourself at WPC else check back around 13th to read some of the news or my comments :)
Check back later!
In the last quarter some interesting products were or going to be released in this quarter.
Guess by now you should know I am more or less specialised in migration and integration to Dynamics CRM. So, last quarter Biztalk 2009 has been released. I didn't had time to take a look in it, because I am totally behind due to my current project. You could download trial here.
Other interesting products that are coming is of course Office 10, I read some current products were renamend from Groove to SharePoint WorkSpace 2010. I could remember one of the speeching of Bill Gates af couple of years ago, where SharePoint was positioned in the middle and all other Microsoft products were positoned around SP.
Guess, this is my cue to tell you that probably this month, you never sure with Microsoft release dates, the beta of SharePoint 2010 will be released.
Also I am looking forward to Windows 7's official release. There is only one big annoying thing about this release. It seems that in some countries in Europe an upgrade version wouldn't be available :-( due to European regulations.
Guess, that sums it up for now... its back to migrating!
Guess, its already mentioned in newsletter and maybe you seen the website. Newest release is the blog of Scribe after new branding, fresh website now it also launches a blog.
You can check it out at: http://blog.scribesoft.com/
Interesting topic on the blog from my point of view the pre announcement of an adapter for one of the other Dynamics product, Dynamics AX.
I am working on new post about some more tips and tricks for migration Goldmine to CRM 4.0. Also working on new column for dynamicsworld.com about datamigration.
keep migrating :)
What is a CRM application without data? In my experience datamigration/integration is one of the importants part of your project.
As you might know I am working at this moment on migrating data from Goldmine 5.5 (MS SQL implementation) to MS CRM 4.0. To get more information about Goldmine I used some information from Scribe templates, but also used this website a lot.
To make it more easy we also use an extra leading data source. We choose to add some columns in table of Goldmine. To retrieve you extra columns you have to update the Goldmine Adapter with MetadataConfig tool, which you could find in Scribe directory.
You have to add your columns in the Goldmineadapter.xml and upload them with the Metadataconfig tool. Please make backup of xml file first :-)
If you succeeded you will see the fields when connecting to Goldmine in the workbench. Some more tips/tricks in next post.
I ran into some issues trying to schedule a DTS in the Scribe Console. The DTS was running fine in the Workbench. In our logs we did see several errors also:
- "Server execution failed (Error code=80080005)"
- "Error initializing the Message Processor"
- "Initialize failed (MsgProcDoc is null)"
We followed these steps (see topic 469) to solve the issue:
1) Check (correct) installation of MSMQ
2) Scribe Service Account should be/have :
a) a local admin on the Scribe server
b) a member of the Scribe Console Users Group
c) internet access.
The last (internet access) could be issue in Enterprise Environment. If its impossible to gain this privilige because security policies you could try this:
1) Logon to server with the account running the Scribe Services
2) Open IE and go to => Tools => Internet Options Click on the 'Advanced tab' scroll to 'Security'
3) Uncheck 'Check for publisher's certificate revocation'
4) Click 'Apply' and then 'OK'
You're DTS should now run succesfully.
The origin of this issue is not in the Scribe Software but an possible issue with the .NET framework. Please test it first in your development environment. The workaround is only needed when your account don't have internet access privilege.
Keep on integrating!
After my long weekend, we had some holiday over here. I had nice surprise, which I guess many people were waiting for.
The website of Scribe(soft) had an extremely makeover! I must admit I like it and it is big improved considering the old website. The style was already displayed in new release of Scribe Insight 6.5 and its fresh and I actually could find my way around now :-)
So for many of us it's time, if you didn't already, to update the bookmarks:
- Openmind (forum & knowledge base)
- Downloads (of course the download page)
Go see it for yourself!
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