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From the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Blogs: Diagnostic web sign-in; Data migration from MySQL; Form headers in Dynamics 365; Relationship insights

by Linda Rosencrance
Contributing Writer, MSDW

A selection of the latest insight from the Dynamics CRM blogs:

  • New Diagnostic Scenario for Web Sign-In
  • Migrating Data from a MySQL Database
  • 3 Ways to Display Form Headers in Microsoft Dynamics
  • Dynamics 365 Relationship Insights

New Diagnostic Scenario for Web Sign-In

On the Dynamics CRM Support Blog, Dana Martens said the team was excited to release a new diagnostic scenario for Dynamics 365 (formerly CRM Online).

Martens said that this diagnostic is included as part of the Office 365 Support and Recovery Assistant that you can download here. The scenario is designed to troubleshoot issues with signing into Dynamics 365 with your web browser.

He offers an overview of some of the checks and recovery actions that are included as well as some screenshots here.

Before running any checks, this diagnostic first prompts you for which web browser you are using if multiple browsers are installed. Any recovery actions that appear later will be based on the selected browser.

Migrating Data from a MySQL Database

On the Sonoma Partners blog, principal developer Rob Jasinski said that recently he had to migrate data located in a MySQL database to Microsoft Dynamics CRM for a customer.

We have many tools, applications, and interfaces that rely on the source data being Microsoft SQL Server, so ideally we like to convert the data from a different database platform to SQL Server whenever possible. Since MySQL is open-source and considered the second most popular used RDBMS (according to ...

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About Linda Rosencrance

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 25 years experience as an reporter/investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in the metropolitan Boston area. Rosencrance has been writing about information technology for the past 16 years.

She has covered a variety of IT subjects, including Microsoft Dynamics, mobile security issues such as data loss prevention, network management, secure mobile app development, privacy, cloud computing, BI, big data, analytics, HR, CRM, ERP, and enterprise IT.

Rosencrance is the author of six true crime books for Kensington Publishing Corp.

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