Background I’ve been working on a project creating the light-touch task sequences in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 to deploy Microsoft Windows 7 to bank branches using offline stand-alone media. Recently we noticed that three of the thirteen Dell notebooks weren’t prompting the on-site technician to hit the F10 button after the PowerShell script…
Microsoft today announced that in Exchange Online, administrators will now have the ability to conduct message traces for the previous 90 days. This change is attributed to feedback that Microsoft has received that the previous ability to look back only a week was insufficient. For traces over a week back, the results will be emailed…
As a follow-on to my System Center Universe 2014 session, I thought I’d put together the various ways to create WMI “objects” so that ConfigMgr can later pick them up using Hardware Inventory. The below examples do not include any error checking and simply contain the core code snippets needed to perform the actions; variations…
I have created a custom entity entitled "Funding Request". I want to add a field that allows users to select multiple products from a list. My first thought is to go into the Fields interface and create a new Pick List and look for the option that allows users to choose multiple items, but the…
I received an email from Microsoft yesterday introducing two new compute-intensive instances in Windows Azure. They’re pretty powerful, and expensive. Not only is the processor and RAM way up there but you get a 40 Bbit/s InfiniBand network with RDMA! If your company needs this kind of server it’s available now in Windows Azure. Remember,…
I have a custom entity form in CRM. When the user selects an opportunity, I want to populate the form data with values from the selected opportunity. One of the fields I want to populate is the Account field with the Account entity that is related to the selected Opportunity. My OData query looks like…
I have a custom entity form in CRM. When the user selects an opportunity, I want to populate the form data with values from the selected opportunity. I quickly realize that I cannot use the CRM Business Rules functionality for this, because it does not currently support setting field values from related entity data.…
While the news is showing snow in the south of the United States, I am happy to report that the weather at SCU in Houston Texas is beautiful (chilly but beautiful). Since this will be a FAQ, Starbucks is directly across the street from the conference hall and down the stairs. There is also a…
We had a great Office 365 International User Group meeting! I started off the meeting with a couple quick updates: SkyDrive to be rebranded as OneDrive and SkyDrive Pro to be OneDrive for Business, http://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive-for-everything-your-life/ Office Web Apps to be rebranded as Office Online?, http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-office-web-apps-to-be-renamed-office-online-7000025633/ New Partner Admin Center for Office 365 Partners, http://blogs.office.com/2014/01/28/introducing-the-new-office-365-partner-admin-center/ Next…
I ran into an odd problem today. I am upgrading our on-premise CRM environment to CRM 2013. I have some client-side code that uses the OrganizationData.svc to fetch some data from a related Opportunity entity, as follows: } function PopulateOpportunityData(oppId){ var ODataHost = location.protocol + ‘//’ + location.host + ‘/’ + Xrm.Page.context.getOrgUniqueName(); var ODataService =…
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