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 Install\Import “The SQL Server {sqlserver_name} is unavailable”
My apologies for the significant gap between my last post on our CRM 2016 Upgrade Adventure and this one. My time has been consumed with preparing for go-live, but I've been keeping track of the roadblocks and caveats we encounter as I go so that I can post about them at later dates. One of... 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 →
Dynamics CRM Import Error “Must declare the scalar variable “@table”
This post is the first in a new series I'm going to call "CRM 2016 Upgrade Adventure". Summary: my organization has taken on the ambitious challenge of not only upgrading our existing Dynamics CRM 2011 environment to the 2016 version but of moving it to the cloud service as well. Aside from getting the vanilla components... Continue Reading →