From the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Blogs: Diving into CRM 2015 Update 1

Now that Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Spring 2015 Update (a.k.a. CRM 2015 Update 1) is available, we took a look around the web to see what about the release has CRM professionals talking. Here are some recent findings.

Approve Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 2015 Update 1

Think you are ready to turn on the Spring 2015 updates? On the Magnetism blog, Colin Maitland shows you how to schedule and approve the update for your organization. Maitland notes that before you apply the update to a production instance of Dynamics CRM, you should complete the following steps:

• Read the "What's New in this Update" information
• Schedule and approve the update for a sandbox (non-production) instance of Dynamics CRM
• Test your solutions and customizations after the update has been applied to the sandbox instance
• Prepare to train your users in the changes introduced by the update

Then when you're ready, you can schedule and approve the update for your production instance of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. You can find out how to do that here.

Deprecation of the CRM SharePoint List Component

The Dynamics Day blog, reminds readers that the Dynamics CRM Team announced that CRM 2015 Update 1 will deprecate the List Component as a result of SharePoint's deprecation of the sandbox solution, a dependency of the List Component.

The migration will be easy ...