In this blog post, we will demonstrate how to use our software to migrate old KbArticle data to the new knowledgebase along with taking care of the versioning issue by creating new knowledge records and updating the latest version of the existing article records.

CRM 2015 Update 1 introduced the Alternate Key feature which can be used for Update and Upsert function as an alternative way to identify a CRM record in addition to the primary key. However there is one more scenario that this feature can be useful as well, but may have been overlooked, which is to use the Alternate Key for lookup purpose. In this blog post, I will show you how we have enabled the feature for lookup purpose.

We find it is quite tricky when working with recurring appointment. In this blog post, we will demonstrate how to migrate recurring appointment data. You may find it extremely easy to handle the tricky situation by using our software.

In our most recent release of SSIS Integration Toolkit v7.1 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, we updated our support for SSIS 2016 and 2014. With this release there is a requirement to update your script component in order to work with the latest release.

When using FetchXML query to read data from Microsoft Dynamics CRM server, you might run into an error complaining "Paging cookie is required when trying to retrieve a set of records on any high pages". We have a solution for this error.

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With the introduction of all the nice features in CRM Online 2015 Update 1 release, there needs to be a way to detect whether the server is on a particular version so that it can handle those new features.

Query is further enhanced in CRM Online 2015 Update 1 release, which now offers some new query operators that can be used in FetchXML and QueryExpression.

In your Microsoft Dynamics CRM environment, data changes often happen at the same time for the same record, which sometimes could result in data loss. With the introduction of Optimistic Concurrency feature in CRM Online 2015 Update 1 release, you have a way to detect whether the record has been changed since the last time it was retrieved, which can help mitigate such potential data loss.

Data integrity is critical to business. Transactional support is one of the important ways to ensure data integrity, which is something that you often run into in your CRM data integration project. The introduction of "Transaction Batching" feature in CRM Online 2015 Update 1 release is an important step forward as it enables an important integration scenario.

In CRM integration projects, there is often a need to track your source data changes in an efficient way. Currently you would typically implement your solution by comparing CRM entity's modifiedon field, which may not provide the desired performance that you require.

In the past, plugin debugging has been a very challenging task when working with CRM online environment. With the introduction of plugin trace logging feature in the CRM Online 2015 Update 1 release, this has become a much easier job.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM uses a number of special fields for special purpose, those fields used to require using special SOAP messages in order to write to them. With CRM online 2015 Update 1 release, you no longer have to make special service calls to update those fields, which makes it significantly easier to write integration code, at the same time it now offers much better performance due to the reduced service calls.

Upsert is an important enhancement that Microsoft Dynamics CRM brought in the 2015 Update 1 release. It can greatly simplify your data integration development.

In this blog post, I will discuss how you can setup CRM alternate keys and how you can utilize them in your application.

In this blog post series, I will try to illustrate some of the new capabilities that are offered in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 2015 Update 1 release.

We have received a few reporting from our customers saying "The connection manager '' is not properly installed on this computer" when using SSDT-BI for Visual Studio 2013, this blog post tries to direct you to the download link which includes a fix for this issue.