My suggestion is that CRM training materials should be free for anyone to download. Partners are expected to purchase a Microsoft Dynamics Partner Foundation or Advantage Service Plan in order to access several benefits including access to the Dynamics CRM 4.0 and 2011 training guides. The Dynamics service plans are most popular with larger partners who are committed to Dynamics CRM. The service plans are less popular with new and small partners who are still building their committment. This means that the CRM professionals who need the most training (those who work for new and smaller partners) do not have access to training material, while those who are most likely to be certified already (those who work for Silver and Gold CRM certified partners) do have access to the training. Well-training, certified CRM professionals perform better CRM implementations. It's in everyone's interests -- Microsoft, partners and customers -- to ensure that Microsoft Dynamics CRM has more well-training, certified CRM professionals available than competing systems. Microsoft will have happier customers, larger market share and greater software licensing revenues by providing free training materials to its customers and partners than it will by attempting to turn training requirements into a source of revenue. Salesforce.com, for example, provide administrator training guides at no charge for anyone to download from their website: http://www.salesforce.com/assets/pdf/misc/SG_CertifiedAdmin.pdf. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 training course materials were free for any customer or partner to download and study. However, the policy changed with the release of CRM 4.0 and hasn't reverted with the release of CRM 2011. It should! ... View more

With PowerApps becoming more and more complex and bigger, the need for multiple developers to edit / update the same PowerApp at the same time becomes more and more prevalent, just like C# development where there is a plethora of tools to support multi-developer development eg GitHub and Visual Studio Teams.  PowerApps (and Flow) is, like it or not, going to be another developement language.which requires multiple developers working in a collaborative way on the same PowerApps App.  Hopefully, PowerApps and Flow will find their way into the next version of Visual Studio.  Until that happens, there is the need for multiple developers to develop the same PowerApps app.  Is there a way of this being made available. ... View more

Could we get the ability to Share a PowerApp with an Office 365 Group?     Currently you can select individual Users, or Everyone.  But sometimes Apps are built for specific Teams.  These teams already manage their members in an O365 Group via a MS Team or SharePoint .     Would be a mighty shame for them to have to input data more than once 😉 ... View more

I'd really like a function within Canvas Apps to retrieve the App ID of the app I am currently in.   Currently there are a number of features which rely on the App ID to join the dots. We are able to retrieve this from outside of the app via its metadata. It would make for easier and simplier development if the app could be 'self aware' through calling a function such as AppID.()   This would allow me to write a formula such as Set(thisApp, AppID.()) ... View more

With the update 12, Microsoft have restricted the DEV instance access as admin. There is a lot more than just configuration and installation that needs to be done as part of Dev. I would strongly recomend that microsoft provide admin access with the dev boxes  ... View more

As the subject suggests, the ability to use 'This' on any control would be extremely useful for at least my use case and I am sure it will at least be mildly useful for others as well. To go a little more in-depth about this, for instance, if you have a Button, and wish to use the Text attribute to update a variable. You need to specify the 'Button name'.Text to use that value, however, if you could just use 'This'.Text or something like This.Data.Text (since the actual text value is in the DATA of the Button).   TL:DR = Let controls be able to access their own values using 'This'.   BTW, I'm new to PowerApps and if there is a way to do this or if there is a reason we should be able to do this then my bad. ... View more

At Convergence 2014 in Atlanta I discovered that Server side synchronization is not supported in mixed-mode environments (CRM on-prem & Office 365). F or organizations like ours who need to run CRM on-prem due to integration and other requirements but also want to take advantage of commodity cloud SAAS solutions like Office 365, this ability is critical. Please enable CRM on-prem customers who wish to utilize the wonderful features delivered by Server Side Sync to connect to an O365 exchange environment. ... View more

We can use PowerApps to customize the SharePoint list form, but we can not delete customized forms in the PowerApps Admin Center. We need to delete them from SharePoint. Customized form will remain on PowerApps If we deleted the SharePoint list. It is causing trouble in management because there is no way to delete the customized form. If we can deleted the customized form from PowerApps side, it will be nice to manage.   But the best implementation is that when we delete the SharePoint list, the customized form on PowerApps will also be deleted.   I hope you to consider the implementation. Thank you. ... View more

It would be nice to have the ability to create/publish the App from one environment to another( similar to what Import/Export package does).   This is would help save a lot of time in moving the apps from Dev/QA/UAT to PROD. Also it might be easier for the support team to just execute the scripts and have the scripts do the work rather than them doing the steps manually(it would be really difficult for someone wihtout Powerapps knowledge to follow the Import/Export and the Connectors/Flow configuration steps).   @v-micsh-msft @v-xida-msft  Exporting and Importing a PowerApp  Import/Export apps using powershell  ... View more

When a staff member changes his role or team or his name changes, currently we need to update it both in AD and CRM. Is there any where we can just update in AD and CRM somehow gets it automatically. It would be better if it happens immeditely but as CRM doesn't know when a changes happens in AD we can have a nightly job to sync both AD and CRM. ... View more

UR17 has introduced a bug in the Deployment Manager for domains where the first part of the FQDN does not match the backwards compatible domain name (2003). company_com and company.com for example. The code attempts to resolve the domain as just company rather than company.com or company_com http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/8fcb3dc5-874c-4ec9-a55c-8f1f460e2c83/crm-2011-unable-to-open-deployment-manager-activedirectoryobjectnotfoundexception?forum=crm Reverting to UR16 solves the issue. ... View more

Can we have a way to determine the environment ID that a flow or app is currently running in?   I have several flows and apps that I develop in a staging environment, test using test data, and then promote to a production environment, which run on production data. It would be nice to be able to determine which environment the flow/app is running in, and do branching conditions based on that. For example:   * My canvas app allows people to send emails to another person. In staging, I want those emails to always go to a hard-coded email address (the person who is testing). In production, I want the emails to go to the actual recipient. * Same as above, but it is in a flow. * One of my flows creates a record and assigns it to a specific owner. The owner exists in the production environment, but not in the staging environment, because he isn't part of the group that tests things. I have to change which user the record gets assigned to based on which environment the flow is running in.   Currently I'm solving this by exporting the flow/app from staging, importing it into prod, and going in to make all of the manual tweaks to the logic. This process is highly prone to errors, because I may forget to do one of the tweaks, and if anybody else makes changes, we might now know what tweaks need to be made in each other's code. This would be much easier with conditional logic based on the environment ID. ... View more

The audit entity gives us some pretty interesting data on how the system is being used - if we could run an advanced find on this, or even just run charts across it, it would be of great benefit to new users of the system. Imagine a few scenarios: 1) Show a chart of "changes by day by department" 2) Show a report of "everything changed by former employee John A." 3) Show a report of "everyone who changed field 'Discount' on entity 'Account'" etc ... View more

Can you please update Microsoft docs here to highlight that there is a 1000 record limitation?? Also can you please increase the limit to 2000 - in line with the 'Data row limit for non-delegable queries'?   Many thanks! ... View more

This has been a consisent challenge even prior to CRM2011 - the inability to manage the Users Local Data groups centrally. Whilst I recognise that with CRM 2011 methods were added to the SDK to access these Local Data Groups, it is still a challenging process and cost to implement a method to manage this. It would be great if we could set LDG's by Security Role to provide a default/global update mechanism. To this point it would be good to also add to a Security Role a priviledge to determine if a user can change their LDG's. Also to have the ability to access these LDG's from the User record in CRM too - so an Admin can troubleshoot and 'fix' users errors, where a User has elected to override the default (if they are allowed to). Happy to providfe additional information if required. ... View more

For CRM ONLINE especially. From time to time application changes are required (or new solutions applied / existing solutions updated). During this time you do not want "Users" to be able to access the system. For OSDP in particular if you are Federating AD you cannot 'bulk' edit User records to disable them. If you only use a single Business Unit you cannot disable the BU. And it is a pain to add/remove security roles from users. It would be great if an Administrator could set an 'application in maintenance mode' landing page (which Admins could by-pass) to stop Users accessing the system for a planned outage period.. ... View more

It would be nice to have a function that we can just copy existing entity to make new entity. ... View more

CRM On-premise should display a list of organizations the user has access to when they go to the generic org-less url for their CRM server. This is the behavior for CRM Online and is very useful for customers to navigate to multiple online orgs. This behavior would also be useful in an on-prem or IFD environment. This would improve the disoverability of CRM which would be an improvement in the user experience. ... View more

It would be great if the "Description" field of a hyperlink column in Sharepoint would be available in Powerapps. ... View more