Why am I not able to proceed after accepting License Agreement - CRM 2011

No wonder I had wasted a great span of time to figure out on why my CRM 2011 installation didn't proceed further after accepting License Agreement :(

No wonder if I wouldn't ignored the warning message on "...see the log C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\MSCRM\Logs for further details - would have solved ages ago.

Further reading it revealed CRM 2011 comes with minor version of Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x64 Redistributable - 10.0.30319 whereas there was already a higher version installed.

So I removed the already installed version and continue with the installer and voila! it worked.

A piece of advise - the installer should have prompted instead sitting quietly and letting administrator read the log :)

CRM 2011: Issue Installing Windows Identity Foundation

While installing Windows Identity Foundation as a Pre-Requisite for CRM 2011 on Windows Server 2012, I was getting this strange error:

"The certificate for the signer of the message is invalid or not found."

Since Windows Server 2012 already contains "Windows Identity Foundation" as a Feature that's the reason it failed to installed.

So pause where you are are, first add "Windows Identity Foundation" as a Feature via Server Manager, once installed then continue and you can easily move on to the next screens...

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How Much Does Microsoft Dynamics CRM Cost?

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Four points on why do you need a CRM

- Access any portion of your business i.e. Visibility
- Collaborate virually with anyone i.e. Sales, Marketing, Customers, Support
- View real-time reports and statistics of your business i.e, KPI, Trends, Sales
- Integrate virtually with any system

Dynamics CRM Long Term Vision (SoD)

This Statement of Direction (SoD) outlines the future direction and planned areas of innovation for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The intent of this paper is to help customers and partners establish appropriate plans and guidelines for their investments today, while keeping an eye on the horizon of future innovations being delivered by the Microsoft Dynamics CRM team. It is meant to be directional in nature – and articulates scenarios and solutions that are planned to be delivered over the next 36 months versus any particular product release or service update.

Statement of Direction (SoD) link

Release of Rollup 1 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013

There is a long list of fixes issued in Rollup 1 including:

• Publishing a CRM report fails as the parent report already links to another report with same name.
• Invalid Argument when navigating to view with related entity lookup. 
• The chart (for any other entity) does not display in Korean due to System.ArgumentException: "Value of 'Malgun Gothic, Segoe UI, 9.5px' is not valid for 'units'."
• Script error occurs when moving from a form. "Unable to get property 'get_filterType' of undefined or null reference"
• Disabling checkbox fields using the JavaScript API does not work.

Find full list of details on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Update Rollup 1 KB article here.