Console application for moving Dynamics CRM access team templates

When Dynamics CRM 2013 was released, I thought access teams were the new killer feature in that version, and I even developed custom workflow activity code to make managing access team membership easier by using connection records. I have thus far not had an opportunity to use access teams in a real project, so I was disappointed to read this blog post by Ben Hosking (AKA “The Hosk”) about how Microsoft doesn’t provide any out-of-the-box capabilities for moving access team templates between Dynamics CRM organizations. »

Creating a near real-time streaming interface for Dynamics CRM with Node.js – part 4

This is the final post in my four-part series about creating a near real-time streaming interface for Microsoft Dynamics CRM using Node.js and Socket.IO. In my last post I showed how to write the plug-in code to send messages from CRM to the Node.js application. In today’s post I will show how to configure a client to receive and process notifications from the Node. »

Lots of Dynamics CRM sample code now available on GitHub

Over the years, I’ve shared a lot of code as part of my blogging, but I didn’t do a particularly good job of making the code easily available outside of the individual blog posts. I also realized I didn’t even have all the code where I could easily get to it from my PC! »

Creating a near real-time streaming interface for Dynamics CRM with Node.js – part 3

This is the third post in my four-part series about creating a near real-time streaming interface for Microsoft Dynamics CRM using Node.js and Socket.IO. In my last post I showed how to create the Node.js component of the solution to process messages received from Dynamics CRM and send notifications to connected clients. »

Creating a near real-time streaming interface for Dynamics CRM with Node.js – part 2

This is the second post in my four-part series about creating a near real-time streaming interface for Microsoft Dynamics CRM using Node.js and Socket.IO. In my last post I presented an overview of how a near real-time streaming interface can be used with Dynamics CRM, and I discussed the solution approach. »