The ins-and-outs of checking SharePoint Online documents in and out

SharePoint Online has an abundance of document management capabilities. You can share documents with people inside and outside your organisation, for you and your (extended) teams to collaborate on and co-author. You can invoke document versioning to enable restoring of earlier editions and  log changes. You can control the process of document editing by invoking … Continue reading The ins-and-outs of checking SharePoint Online documents in and out

New whitepaper “Scalable Security Modeling with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011”

Microsoft Dynamics CRM offers a wide range of security modeling features, and it is important to choose the most appropriate approach to implementing a particular solution. Each feature offers a combination of characteristics that provides a balance between granularity of access control, administrative ease, and impact on scalability. Having an understanding of the underlying mechanisms … Continue reading New whitepaper “Scalable Security Modeling with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011”

Phases and Requirements during transition of your CRM Online organisation

On July 19th, 2012 Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online on-boarded to a new administration portal and billing platform. Together the portal and billing platform are referred to as the Microsoft online services environment. This environment is designed to streamline and improve the customer experience across all Microsoft online services. It enables customers to manage their Microsoft … Continue reading Phases and Requirements during transition of your CRM Online organisation

Understanding the concept of a CRM Online user on Office 365

Microsoft Dynamics CRM integration with Microsoft Office 365 adds a new dimension to the concept of a user. User records are stored in both systems’ databases, and are synchronized. In addition, different types of users may exist to handle the situation where a user exists in one system but not the other. In this blog … Continue reading Understanding the concept of a CRM Online user on Office 365

How to set the base language in a CRM Online Trial

The trial creation experience around CRM Online has changed. In the previous UI you could pick your Country (ie. your location, determining what datacenter your trial will be created in) and your base language. The  base language is a language used when installing Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online for your company that determines which language you use for Microsoft … Continue reading How to set the base language in a CRM Online Trial

How the transition will affect users of CRM Online

On July 19th, 2012 Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online on-boarded to a new administration portal and billing platform. Together the portal and billing platform are referred to as the Microsoft online services environment. This environment is designed to streamline and improve the customer experience across all Microsoft online services. It enables customers to manage their Microsoft … Continue reading How the transition will affect users of CRM Online

How to Get your Office for Mac 2011 if you havent been upgraded yet

In the new Office 365, Mac users can download Office for Mac 2011. So what to do if you want your Office for Mac now, and your tenant hasn't yet been upgraded to the new Office 365 experience? If your are an existing Office 365 E-plan customer, and your tenant hasn't yet been upgraded to … Continue reading How to Get your Office for Mac 2011 if you havent been upgraded yet

Now you can control who sees what in the Exchange Online GAL

Companies who have gone through a merger often need to have separate Global Address Lists (GAL) per company, with functionality that allows users to see only other appropriate users. Schools often need different views of the GAL for subsets of users within the same organization - restrict students’ access to GAL to avoid misuse. To … Continue reading Now you can control who sees what in the Exchange Online GAL

Multiple Instances in CRM Online – whats the use case?

With the December 2012 Service update (aka "Polaris"), we introduced the ability for customers to provision and manage multiple CRM instances within a single subscription. This opens up new enterprise customer scenarios such as separate instances for departmental use, regional use, development/test instances for application lifecycle management and more.    Use Case for Multiple Instances … Continue reading Multiple Instances in CRM Online – whats the use case?