Following the steps below disables the filters for all the activities and contacts the client is designed to bring into the user's Outlook. You've just completed the Configuration Wizard and are ready to launch Outlook. The important part of this blog are the final three steps. I'm going to assume you know how to install and configure the client. Re-start the Outlook Synchronization to allow CRM Activities to synchronize.
Here are the high level steps of how to stop the madness of 20,000 unwanted contacts in your Outlook once you've installed and configured the Outlook Client: Once you configure the Outlook Client, it starts pulling the contacts down. It can cause duplication if those contacts already exist as contacts in their Outlook. This automatic CRM to Outlook syncing can be a problem if the user owns thousands of CRM contacts. One of the features of the Outlook Client is that it automatically syncs all the CRM contacts that user owns and creates contacts in Outlook.
That this is a valid Windows Installer package.Ġ7:53:01| Info| Resuming automatic updatesĠ7:53:03| Info| Clean up the BITS downloader.Ġ7:53:01| Info| Bootstrap version: 6.0.0.302.Ġ7:53:02| Error| Installation of Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook failed.The Outlook Client for Microsoft Dynamics CRM keeps your users' inboxes from becoming silos of information that are accessible only to the user.
Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify Result: This installation package could not be opened. 1Ġ7:53:01| Info| Installing Windows Live ID Sign-in AssistantĠ7:53:01| Info| Launching external process:Ġ7:53:01| Info| Installation of Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant failed. Here is a install log (the bold is mine):Ġ7:53:01| Info| Installation of Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 Service Pack 1 has completed. It seems like the plugin has a hard coded web url to pull down the Live Sign-In Assistant. It keeps looking for Windows Live Sign-in Assistant - which does not want to install correctly on Windows 8.1Įvery thread I have seen related to this seems to be about video game compatibility. This installation works in WIN7, but fails on one of the pre-reqs. I am attempting to deploy the CRM outlook plug-in via SCCM.