I am using CRM Online 2013 and I have to do reporting with custom code and there are reports that just cannot be done with Fetch XML. So my question is.
Can I use Azure integration with CRM Online 2013 to extract CRM data of entities into SQL Azure through some ETL tool like SSIS or any other (recommend please) and do the reporting through SSRS from SQL Azure?
If yes, then we come to our second step. Is there a way to call these reports from CRM Online? I know we can't upload the .rdl files with custom code to CRM Online. So I am thinking of calling the reports from CRM even though the reports may reside on Azure server.
Its the second step I am most worried about as being impractical. Suggestions?
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Is it possible to export all marketing List members from Marketing List?
I have 35 Marketing list, i can export to Excel all marketing lists, but not the member list associated to those lists...
Thanx.
Sofiane
Migrating from on premise to online is a little bit more tricky if this was migrating from crm 2011 on premise to crm 2016 on premise you could of restored from a .bak (database file). Currently Microsoft provide no supported way to restore from a bak file using online crm.
The options available to you are to use the in built data import templates, export the data to excel from current system and reimport to your new environment. This will be time consuming and won't migrate any documents.
Another option is to use a third party tool such as scribe or kingswaysoft connector with SSRS to migrate the data or code your own solution using the SDK.
I have a Development Project in motion where the end user interacts with an MVC Application to input data into it, then it gets submitted to SQL Server. Straightforward as it is really. Then the data is used to produce a PDF Report.
I want to use SharePoint to pull the data from SQL Server to create a .DOCX and integrate Microsoft office word 2010 to edit the document and publish as a .PDF
The MVC Application, Not a problem. ITs SharePoint Integration with Microsoft Word I'm not familiar with. SharePoint itself yes. Integration and Automation with Office Business Applications, no really.
Can anybody point me into the direction of good solid resources online into Office Integration?
Im using Sharepoint Server standard 2010 so One Word Automation is out...
How can i get database schema for my Dynamics CRM 2013 Online? Is it possible in CRM 2013 online? If it is possible to get database schema, can you tell me any procedure?
A quicker option that doesn't require getting a backup of the database is to use the XRMtoolbox available at http://xrmtoolbox.codeplex.com and use the Metadata Doc Generator tool. That allows you to retrieve the Metadata and select all or some entities and various options for those entities and to save the output to a Word document or an Excel document. While maybe not technically a database schema, it allows you to see even more information at a glance than you would see in the database schema because you can see things like if an attribute is available for Advanced find and which form or forms it is located on.
Another option is to install a local copy of Microsoft CRM that is the same version as the online version and to export the customizations and solutions from the CRM online version and then import them to the local CRM install. This will give your local database the same schema as what exists in CRM online and you can either view the schema in SQL server management studio or other SQL database schema generation tools. Hope this helps.
You can request a copy of your Dynamics CRM organization database from CRM Online support. Then you'll have your Dynamics CRM database and you can restore it to a local SQL Server. If you don't already have a SQL instance you can use the Developer edition, if you have access, or use a trial.
Be sure to ask which version of SQL Server you need to use to restore.
To receive a copy of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online SQL Server
database, contact Live Customer Service by calling 1-877-CRM-CHOICE
(1-877-276-2464) Monday-Friday, 8:00 A.M.-8:00 P.M. Central Time
(UTC-6) in the U.S. and in Canada.
Restore the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online SQL Server database
The backup of your Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online SQL Server database
must be restored by using a server running the same (or a newer)
version of Microsoft SQL Server as is running in Microsoft’s data
centers. At the time of this writing, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online
data centers are running SQL Server 2008.
where can I find official Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 or 2013 Instance Adapter ? for data synchronization between two CRM organization and migration to CRM Online ? Its missing on downloads.microsoft.com
It seems that Microsoft has removed CRM Instance Adapter feature and it's now being using the CRM 2013 SDK which has tool Configuration Migration Tool , that can transfer data from on-premise to another on-premise or CRM Online environment using xml/zip file with simple export/import.
More details:
https://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/survivingcrm/archive/2014/06/09/configuration-migration-tool-working-smarter-with-metadata-entities.aspx
I know that Sharepoint 2010 will store almost everything into its databases. We have a reporting application and we would like to publish our reports into Sharepoint 2010. We don't have any integration kit for Sharepoint 2010. What options do we have? Can we publish our reports into Sharepoint database or how this should be implemented?
From your question, I can't tell if you want a programmatic solution or not. Either way, you can store your reports into a SharePoint Document Library
A) By manually uploading the reports to the SharePoint Document Library
or
B) By creating a simple app or web service to do the job for you
http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=297