Kindle Fire HD8 Review

Background: I recently found myself wanting to replace my iPad Mini 2. It's around four years old and starting to become sluggish enough to be frustrating. Given the incredibly low price of Amazon tablets on Prime Day, I decided to take a risk and try out the Kindle Fire HD 8. Below are my impressions... Continue Reading →

Windows Server Core Jumpstart

Recently I've been looking into the potential that Windows Server Core holds for our environment. Like most eager new Core users, I imagine, I jumped in with grand visions of spinning up a VM quickly and being off to the races administering it from my desktop. The reality wasn't quite the same, as I ran... Continue Reading →

The Final Push – CRM 2016 is Live

After months of ups and downs, plans built and destroyed, and countless hours invested, CRM 2016 is live. (Actually, it's been live since Easter weekend. But keeping a blog up to date is obviously not one of my talents.) For the last installment in this series I'd like to go over how we went about... Continue Reading →

Dynamics CRM Import Fails on “Upgrade Indexes”

As I mentioned in the last post, I'm taking you through our adventure in upgrading the existing on-premise Dynamics CRM 2011 environment to 2016 (and eventually 2016 cloud). Previously I discussed the first show-stopper error we received, "Must declare the scalar variable “@table”." Following that resolution the import continued past the stage “Metadata xml upgrade: pass... Continue Reading →

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