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At Osmosys we had all been pretty busy for the past few months, brimming with work and with very little time on our hands for anything else, so when Sravani sent out a mail saying that a one day trip to Ananthgiri was being planned, I was rather excited. This was going to be my very first outing with the whole team.

Team outings are not only a lot of fun, but they bring out a side of your peers that you generally don’t get to see in an official environment and we at Osmosys are a young, energetic bunch so when we let ourselves go, we can be a pretty awesome bunch to hang out with.

With Skype being integrated with MS CRM 2011 out of the box, it gives greater access to people/customers and changes the way we communicate with customers.

Skype Integration:

With Skype we can make calls straight from CRM without the need for a Phone Integration. Of course for this to work, Skype needs to be installed on the user’s machine and we should have the facility to call from Skype

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MS SQL Server integration service (SSIS) is very widely used in data acquisition that subsequently goes through the ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) process which makes the data available for immediate use or can be used by other sources as input. Many organizations get data from outside sources in common formats such as CSV or MS EXCEL and those files are dropped into a folder at regular intervals. Since it is humanely not possible to monitor the folder 24×7, it would be ideal to have a monitoring application that kicks into picture as soon as files are dropped into the folder and parses it, and logs any failures occurred during the process.

From developer’s perspective, CRM 2011 has a lot of new features to offer. In this post we take a peep into the below listed concepts,
– Customization of forms
– Filtered lookup
– Field level security

Customizations can be done in the Settings area. And as stated in earlier post, a form of an entity can be customized right within the entity itself.
One of the exciting new features in CRM 2011 is the ability of having different forms for different user roles. There are two forms (named as Information) by default one for main form and one for mobile.

We went on a trip to KUNTALA WATERFALLS, Adilabad. It is approximately 250kms from Hyderabad and is situated on NH7 Nirmal-Nagpur highway. Kuntala waterfalls are about 40kms from Nirmal. We were 30 in number and engaged a mini-bus for the trip.

We started from our office (Tarnaka, Hyderabad) at midnight and reached Nirmal town at 5 am next day morning. We checked into the hotels in Nirmal and started for Kuntala at 9 in the morning. Another 1.5 hour and we were into the dense forest with lots of fresh breeze and the sound of water flow. We parked our vehicle and started walking.

Recently we did a CRM Organization import where the SQL Database dump was provided by the client. Restoring the database and Importing it into CRM happened smoothly, but when we tried to access the new organization 404 – Not Found’ error was displayed.
Restarted the machine as the database restoration and organization import took considerable time and CPU/Memory. This time got an error as shown below: