New version customization manager

My friend and colleague Daniel Halan has released a new version of his program CRM Customization Manager. It is a very very useful tool for handling customizationfiles for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. It can handle exporting from one system and importing to another from the same GUI. You can choose to export only javascripts, you can change the datatype of attributes and keep the data.

It is an essential tool for all Dynamics CRM professionals and Daniel is way to alturistik in my view to be giving it away for free.

You can read more about it and download it here http://blog.halan.se/.

Gustaf Westerlund
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Chief Architect

Logica
www.logica.com

Reporting Services Windows Service wouldn't start

I created a new differencing disk of a CRM virtual machine today and I had some troubles getting Reporting services up and running. The service simply wouldn't start. I had previously used the same virtual harddisk base for other systems so I found it a bit strange, it should work.

When I looked in the event viewer it showed the error "Report Server (MSSQLSERVER) cannot connect to the report server database.".

I looked around a bit on the net and found a reference to the following which helped:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/839803

I concernings increasing the timeouts of pipes in the system to 60 seconds instead of 30. This might be needed on VPC:s that are not so fast and might not get the service up and running fast enough.


Gustaf Westerlund
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Chief Architect

Logica
www.logica.com