Virtualization on 64 bits

Almost everybody knows that the new versions of Dync CRM 2011 and MOSS 2010 have been released in 64 bits. This has been the concern of many
consultants because they think they can not create virtual machines and show them on your MS Virtual PC or Windows Virtual PC. Well, I found a solution that helped me to mount an image with CRM 2011; however, this solution does not involve a MS product but a free software tool Virtual Box.
First of all, we must know if our machines supports this kind of virtualization because it is not enough to have the software but also the appropriate hardware. To escape this doubt can download Intel Processor Identification Utility or AMD-V Technology and Microsoft Hyper-V Compatibility Check which help us to identify if we have technology
virtualization. In the event that we had these characteristics, we have to make a setting in the BIOS, this in order to enable the function "Virtualization Technology" which by default appears with a "Disabled" value. This setting depends on the equipment that we have. If you want to see configuration of your computer click here. At the time we have done these settings, we have to proceed to download Virtual Box latest version and generate our 64-bit virtual machine.

Mass publication of reports - PublishReports

For various reasons, it is necessary to conduct a massive publication of the reports, this may be because the configuration is lost on the server or It has been formatted (or any other extreme case you have gone through the report server.)
To do this, we will use a tool called PublishReports.exe
This tool is located in the folder where CRM is installed, by default: C: \ Program Files \ Microsoft CRM \ Tools \ PublishReports.exe
Now, the question is .... How do I use? ... well the answer is:
Open the comand prompt and locate in the Tools folder:
Drive: \ Program Files \ Microsoft CRM \ Tools>
Then type: PublishReports [MyOrganization] and press the enter key (do not use the symbols "[" neither"]"that contain the name of the organization).
Finally would something like this:
Drive: \ Program Files \ Microsoft CRM \ Tools> PublishReports MyOrganization


Spanish Post: Publicación masiva de reportes - PublishReports

Advanced Search + Fetch

Many people, especially those who are learning to generate fetch, have been interested in knowing the generated fetch in advanced search on Dynamics CRM. To know this is not much to investigate. The only thing to do is build an Advanced Search, then press the F11 key in the address bar and type: javascript: alert (resultRender.FetchXml.value)
After do that, press enter key and a window will show the fetch built.

Spanish Post: Fetch de búsqueda avanzada

Integrating Google Maps with CRM 4.0

Often companies that uses CRM 4.0 have need to visualize the locations of their customers to provide their services in a faster and more efficient so they need a reference map in the chips.
In this opportunity, I'll show you how to achieve this goal. In addition to this, we will create a button which allows me to show and hide the map as this occupies a considerable size.
First, we create an IFrame, which we will call map within the Account entity (can also be within the agency contact).

Now that we have the logic, we create the button in the account entity form and then copy the extract of Jscript code, for this we should modify your Sitemap in this way:

<Entity name="account">
<ToolBar ValidForCreate="0" ValidForUpdate="1">
<Button Icon="/_imgs/ico_16_4414.gif" JavaScript="var displ=crmForm.all.IFRAME_Map.style.display; if(displ=='none') crmForm.all.IFRAME_Map.style.display=''; else crmForm.all.IFRAME_Map.style.display='none';" PassParams="1" WinParams="" WinMode="0">
<Titles>
<Title LCID="1033" Text="Map" />
</Titles>
</Button>
<ToolBarSpacer />
</ToolBar>
</Entity>

Then, import the modified ISV and verify the results.
We must remove the check in order to not  restrict cross-frame scripting.
In the onload event of the form, we will get the values ​​that are relating to the name of the street, district, department and country and then concatenate in the following way. Significantly, for the registration of these fields I have not used the out of the box attributes, I worked with cutom lookups.

var url= "http://maps.google.com/maps?q=" + 
crmForm.all.jc_countryid.DataValue[0].name+ "," + 
crmForm.all.jc_stateid.DataValue[0].name + "," + 
crmForm.all.jc_districtid.DataValue[0].name + "," + 
crmForm.all.jc_street.DataValue;
crmForm.all.IFRAME_Map.src=url;

Now that the map is shown on the form, create a button which allows us to hide and / or display as we need. To accomplish this we must first consider the jscript that will allow this fucnionalidad.

var displ=crmForm.all.IFRAME_Map.style.display;
if(displ=='none') crmForm.all.IFRAME_Map.style.display='';
else crmForm.all.IFRAME_Map.style.display='none';

NOTE: The code above allows this functionality. The best practice is that the IFRAME is on a different section to hide the section instead of hiding the IFRAME because if we do this last, a gap is shown.

Spanish Post: Integrando Google Maps con CRM 4.0

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