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re: EBS: Leveraging Single Sign On (SSO) in TMG for Sharepoint

Michael Hensley — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:49:08 GMT

This was driving our users crazy. I really want to thank Jeff for his help in solving this issue for us.

re: Hyper-V: Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2 from Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V

jeffl — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:22:21 GMT

Ben, you have to pay attention to details. I give the value of experience in this article which I think is the best practice. If you look at the other comments you will note that people have been unsuccessful using the other methods. Not because those methods do not work but because people do not take in to account the effect of not doing the compatibility steps. Essentially, the difference in this post is the value of experience and dilligience. With expereince going through this process you will find that a good backup to recover from lost VMs, Config Files or Hyper-V inability to resolve the Simlinks in certain scenarios is very valuable. If you add in that proper documentation is not as common as it should be, administrators should be diligent in not following Method 3. And of course you always need a good backup.

Jeff Loucks

re: Hyper-V: Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2 from Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V

Ben — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:23:01 GMT

Don't understand the value of this post as all of this (and more) is available on the Microsoft website.

re: Creating bootable USB using Diskpart and using it to install Windows 7

tekyguy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:49:44 GMT

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re: Hyper-V: Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2 from Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V

Jason — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:06:25 GMT

I have tried Method 1 and everything seems to work. But one thing is bothering me. After creating a new snapshot and deleting the snapshot, the hierarchy of the snapshots is all messed up. All the children snapshots are at the parent level. Is there no way to preserve the hierarchy?

re: Hyper-V: Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2 from Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V

Robert — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:06:36 GMT

I wish Microsoft would somehow automate the "Insert Integration Services" updating that is required when going to R2. It's a pain the way it is now - I have dozens of VMs.

re: The Numbers: Hyper-V R2 and Dynamically Expanding Storage Performance

Robert — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:57:45 GMT

For my XP/Vista/Win7 "client" hyper-V VMs I use dynamic. For Servers, I use fixed. Data "only" drives fixed too.

re: Twilio - Programing Voice Interactive Web Applications and telephony - WOW

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re: Understanding what can go offline with the CRM Laptop Client

Malcolm — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:45:13 GMT

Hi Jeff,

I'm a wee bit confused. When I take my laptop client offline, I can't assign existing Cases or Activities. This is the same for Accounts and Contacts.

When I create a new Case or Activity when offline, I can change the owner. Once it is saved, the field is disabled. Again, this is the same for Accounts and Contacts.

Now, we do have some custom js that disables some fields, but I've switched this off and refreshed and I still get the issue. The js may be caching, but usually a Ctrl + F5 gives me the new version.

I'm trawling the net just trying to find a definitive statement that says you can't assign existing records offline, but your statement at the top of the page alludes to the fact that you can for cases and activities.

Any clarification would be great.

Cheers,

Malcolm

re: Understanding what can go offline with the CRM Laptop Client

brian — Mon, 07 May 2007 19:42:29 GMT

Hi,

I manage several sales people and can see all their leads when VPN'd to our servcer.

how to I see all leads "owned by everyone" when offline?

re: Understanding what can go offline with the CRM Laptop Client

Ian Dawkins — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:50:12 GMT

Hi Jeff

Very useful - thanks.

I'd also like to sync records (Contacts or possibly Accounts) not owned by me but where I am a Required Attendee on an appointment i.e. a colleague owns the data but wants me to attend a meeting - once offline I have the appointment but not the record details/history etc

Thanks

Ian

re: Understanding what can go offline with the CRM Laptop Client

Alex — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:31:15 GMT

We have found out that the rules are stored in MSCRM:UserQueryBase

On user creation the set of 40 rules is copied in this table for that user.

We are going to try to adjust the rules for all users with a set of SQL update queries. (oh boy...fingers crossed...)

We hope to maintain integrity by closing CRM security roles; give only read rights to the users.

re: Understanding what can go offline with the CRM Laptop Client

jeffl — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:55:58 GMT

Alex,

I am not aware of a way to backend or systems wide set the Sync ALL. I would have concerns with this as well. You have to really understand a number of things that can happen if you start pushing local copies of the data to many people. First is the perforamnce issue but that is not the biggest concern if you ask me. Remember that when those laptops come back on line the syncronization time is used to see whos data is the most current so if you have any data that has changed on a laptop it always "wins" the update of records. You can see as you get several laptops out there that having access to all the data could be a real issue.

Be very leary of giving people access to data that they really don't need because they may change it and that could affect the data that someone else does need. This is especially true with business owners.

Good luck and if you find a manner of doing it please post back.

re: Understanding what can go offline with the CRM Laptop Client

Alex — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:11:07 GMT

Hello Jeff

Do you know if a shortcut exists to sync ALL crm data to the laptop clients without constantly altering these rules by hand on the clients?

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