Microsoft has retired the support of ACS. This blog post discusses what this means to you as a Dynamics 365/CRM developer, and what action should be taken moving forward.

At KingswaySoft, we always try to embrace new platform features as much and as soon as we can. However, in our support effort in helping one of our clients, we ran into a very strange situation that when we try to make an update of a CRM record's statecode/statuscode fields, it will always create two audit records for one service call. In this blog post, I will show you the symptom of the problem and how you can fix it.

There are often times when you need to perform a cascaded lookup in your CRM SSIS/ETL project for cases such as when a lookup field could be located in 1 of 2 fields. This blog post will show you how you can perform such cascade lookups

There are many reasons that you might want to extract attachments from Microsoft Dynamics 365/CRM. For CRM online users one of the most appealing reason might be uploading the CRM attachments to a cloud storage such as SharePoint or OneDrive as a more cost-effective storage option. In this blog post, I will show you how to extract CRM attachments and save them to your local file system.

Happy New Year from all of us at KingswaySoft, thank you for helping us have a great year.

In this blog post we will cover how you can very easily update CRM Entityimage within SSIS using the new Premium Derived Column.

This blog demonstrates how to use our SSIS Duplicate Detector component to find and merge duplicates with ease in CRM.

A breif recap of our week at UG Summit 2016 in Tampa Florida as CRMUG Sponsor Attendees.

This blog demonstrates how to use our Directory Services toolkit to move and rename users, computers, groups, and service accounts to a new container path.

CRM migration can be a daunting task as there are many things that can go wrong during the migration development process. For this reason, we are very excited to announce the general availability of a sample CRM migration package that you can take, use and even customize to your specific migration needs. We hope you find this useful.

There are a few challenges when trying to migrate CRM activity entities. In this blog post, we will try to address some of those challenges and show you some ETL design patterns that you can use for your CRM activity migration.

SSIS Balanced Data Distributor has been commonly used for distributing incoming rows to multiple SSIS destination components to help improve integration performance. However BDD comes with a few limitations. In this blog post, I will show you a better way to implement it without sacrifice from the those limitations.

In this blog post, we will showcase the best practices that you can use to migrate CRM quote data from one CRM organization to another.

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.

Our next block of training courses are schedules to begin August 18th. Contact us now to reserve your spot!