Field Services for Dynamics 365 On-premise

Lately I've been searching for an on-premise solution of Field Services for Dynamics 365 / CRM and this is what I found.

Download Field Services for Dynamics 365 On Premise

Customers can download the solution binaries here for Field Services for Dynamics 365 on-premise.

Install Field Services for Dynamics 365 On Premise

Follow these instructions here to install field services.

How to enable interactive experience in Dynamics CRM

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 and CRM Online has an interactive experience to offer. You can notice this on the notification bar at top of CRM.

To enable the interactive experience in Dynamics CRM, you can either click on Experience it now from the notification bar as shown here:

Or you can input the URL directly in your browser. The URL would be different for CRM Online or CRM (on premise).

Microsoft Dynamics CRM (on-premises) : In your browser, type //engagementhub.aspx, and then press Enter. For an Internet-facing deployment (IFD) use https://< hostname[:port]>/engagementhub.apsx.

If more than one organization is available, and you don’t specify one, the default organization will be used.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online : Type https://. crm#.dynamics.com/engagementhub.aspx, and press Enter.

You can always go back to the original main experience by replacing https://..../engagementhub.aspx to https://..../main.aspx

What's next in Dynamics CRM?

Want to know what's new in Dynamics CRM or what's in preview or in development? Microsoft makes this easy with the CRM Roadmap website.

Now keep yourself up-to-date!

Monthly bulletin on Dynamics CRM - August 2016

Here are a few things I thought are worth sharing this month:

Now you can backup and restore your CRM Online instances (for both production and sandbox). Microsoft has provided us the ability to perform backups on demand:  Backup and restore your CRM Online instance

FantasySalesTeam update 1.4.6 is now available. Microsoft has improved the process for Metric Feed. FantasySalesTeam update

Collect feedback and rate records in CRM Online and Dynamics CRM 2016. Collect feedback using the Feedback entity

New data type for CRM fields called Customer added in CRM Online. Now you can include the Customer data type in system and custom entities.

Monthly bulletin on Dynamics CRM - June 2016

Here are a few things I thought were worth sharing this month:

Microsoft has announced deprecation with Dynamics CRM Online 2016 Update 1 and Dynamics CRM 2016 Service Pack 1: Deprecation Announcement

Dynamics CRM Tip of the Day shows how you can use Agreements in Dynamics CRM Field Services: Agreements in Dynamics CRM Field Services

I wrote how you can embed Power BI tiles in Dynamics CRM: Embed Power BI tiles in CRM Online

Update Rollup vs. Build Version comparison for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

To determine which update rollup is installed on your server or client, the below table provides a precise mapping between the update rollup version and CRM build version.

(This post is regularly updated to keep current with the latest releases)

The updates documented in this blog for:

• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016

You can use the below command using SQL Server Management Studio on your CRM database to determine the current version of CRM.

select * from BuildVersion



If you're unable to view the above table, click here to see it in a new page.

As mentioned earlier, I'll try to keep this post updated. In case of any delays, thank you for leaving a comment below. This will keep other visitors updated while notifying me too to take an action.