During cloud migration press, there are several challenges that the organizations face. Some of the topmost cloud migration challenges are listed in this article:

Top 3 Major Cloud migration challenges and solutions

• Lack of Well-defined migrations strategy

It’s very common that businesses take the decision to make the shift to the cloud without a decent cloud migrations strategy. Every cloud migration is based on the particular requirements of the businesses. So, it is important to identify the application types like mission-critical apps or non-mission-critical apps.

Solution:  Every migration must be planned.

• Ambiguity in Cloud costs

This arises mainly due to a lack of planning. Cloud vendors are smart people who know how to do business. The problem arises at the clients’ end when they can’t calculate the cloud migration phases costs and thus it results in cloud sprawl. At some point during the migration, the costs get out of hand.

Solution: The best way to overcome this is to Manage costs to avoid Cloud sprawl. This can be done by creating a cost center within your organization and handing the task of cost measurement to them from day 1.

• Resistance to Cloud adoption

The number one cloud migration challenge is the resistance to change. Cloud is a huge environment where everything from infrastructure to apps and management is an integrated thing. The cohesion amongst the various aspects of cloud make it complex for newbies and the business officials might experience resistance from the working employees. 

Solution: The best solution for this is to train them well before expecting them to work with it.  Regular training sessions must be planned and held during office timings.

MachSol offers the best-in-line Enterprise Migration Services

Whether you are looking for a migration service to assist you in your next cloud migration task or you wish to migrate to Office 365 with MachPanel, MachSol Enterprise Migration Services has got you covered.  A transparent migration process awaits you with MachPanel that guarantees minimal downtime and seamless up-gradation. 

With MachPanel, you can get hassle-free migration services for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft SharePoint, Hyper-V & Office365. The MachSol team is ready to discuss your requirements and the process of migration with proper planning and careful deployment.

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For all IT gurus out there, there are obvious Dynamics 365 benefits that can lead to a prosperous business since there is a good ROI on implementing Dynamics 365. On the other hand, customers still have ambiguities in mind and are still unaware of “under the hood” benefits of combining a decent CRM with a promising ERP system.

Here are 5 major ways by which Dynamics 365 can facilitate your cloud operations Team to take business operations to a next level.

• Improve customer retention

There are many ways Dynamics 365 facilitates organizations and help maintain better customer retention, with streamlined lead generation and support of revenue streams. Your customers can be facilitated via Dynamics 365 since it connects project, sales and service functions.

• Sales process automation

Not only Dynamics 365 benefits the cloud operations team, but Dynamics 365 can facilitate marketing team in planning, designing and deploying entire marketing campaigns.  Customers can be made aware of Relationship Analytics and so wasted sales and marketing can be cut down.

• Better integration

The core benefits of Dynamics 365 lie within the connection of various tools that Dynamics 365 has to offer and the knowledge of cloud operations team on how to utilize this combination to move the business forward. Once the team is aware of how Dynamics 365 is integrated with other Microsoft Products, it’ll be able to utilize from the segregated data repositories and create robust reporting mechanism beneficial for business.

• Less overhead of infrastructure

With a cloud-based CRM such as Dynamics 365, there is reduced CapEx for the customers since there is less up gradations and patching required and server CRM lifecycle management is eradicated in the first place. Fewer infrastructures overhead means less budget spending on infrastructure maintenance by the cloud business operation team.

• Streamlined management

Dynamics 365 brings together multiple ERM and HR related functions all in a unified platform which makes customers happy with their own customized dashboard. So, employees can have what they need daily on their dashboards and drop off what they don’t need each day.

MachPanel Automation Module for Microsoft Dynamics 365

MachPanel is a robust platform for cloud automation and cloud business lifecycle management. It implements all operations of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Server/Dynamics CRM 2016/2015/2013/2011/4.0 together with support for ADFS 3.0 and also enables the enterprise to work efficiently and more productively. For a smart approach, it implements easy billing, provisioning and management of Microsoft CRM Services to your hosted services platform. This gives you a streamlined experience for your cloud business with features such as Enable/Disable CRM Organization, CRM Organization creation/deletion, CRM organization/user/roles management etc.

Get your hands on MachPanel for a smooth flow of business operations ideal for a progressive business.

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In January 2011, Microsoft released newer version of Dynamics CRM which was shipped with a lot more enhancement not only in GUI but also in functionality, configurations and integrations with other apps and specially Microsoft Office. Alongside major improvements, Microsoft rolled out for support for cloud based hosted CRM and on-premises CRM deployment which targeted winning the battle in Hosted CRM marketplace.
Withal, following is the list of top features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011:

  + Rigorous Integration with Microsoft Office
      - Contextual ribbon same as in Office 2010
      - Browser clients for Dynamics CRM
      - Improved user experience and personalization
  + Personalization and User Experience
      - Workplace personalization

      - Locale settings
      - Dashboard customization
  + Business Intelligence

      - Multiple Dashboards
      - Trend Charts and Insights
  + SharePoint Integration
  + Microsoft Dynamics NAV Integration
  + Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace
  + Cloud Based Deployment
  + Customization and Development

If above mentioned features could be classified then following three categories can be sought:

  + Familiarity – improving user experience
  + Business Intelligence – improving CRM integrity and Insights
  + Connectivity – integrations with Microsoft Apps

In short, CRM is essentially important for business to exploit Sales and Marketing activities alongside customer management and service. These days, CRM’s are even more crucial because now better customer support and management may only lead doing better business. And, using Microsoft’s top-notch CRM solution can help you doing better business by deploying Dynamics CRM 2011 either on-premise or in a hosted mode over 3rd parties. MachSol provides such a state of the art Hybrid Control Panel for Hosted Dynamics CRM 2011 which not only enables you to sell hosted CRM but also to provision and manage Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suit (BPOS) that includes Hosted Exchange, Office and SharePoint.

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 allows you having complete insights of your sales along with sales automation including customer services and marketing solutions in a single platform which is essentially important for every organization. MachSol has not only visualized the great dynamics of Microsoft CRM 2011 but has also brought you an autonomous solution in the form of MachPanel. Current release of MachPanel 4.2 manifolds vigorous support for Dynamics CRM 2011 allowing you to have 360 degree view of your sales alongside customer management and marketing solutions under the hood of MachPanel.

“We constantly strive to bring you the top-notch solutions for SaaS and Cloud. In MachPanel v.4.2, we are not only supporting latest Microsoft products but also extending its functionality by integrating various other tools and applications, like Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and various other enhancements. We are confident in MachPanel’s v.4.2, being a Complete Automation Control Panel for your hosting business needs.” says Max Roosenbrand, CEO and Chairman of MachSol Inc.

About MachSol Inc.

MachSol is a developer of MachPanel®, the automation business solution for building, supplying and managing private, public and hybrid clouds. It provides self-service control panels to both provider and their customers. Hosting Service Providers (HSPs) and Telecom companies uses MachPanel® for cloud enabled hosted services platform delivering hosted Exchange, BlackBerry, CRM, SharePoint, Lync/OCS, Hyper-V and Web services.  We offer our clients a unique competitive advantage, powerful global brand, our extraordinary competence in technology and design and the many synergies with our channels and partners.

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1. Download CRM language pack

2.  Select your required language and hit to change then go for download and run the installer on CRM server.

3. Open your  CRM organization and Click on settings>> Administration>> languages

4. Now you can see the Installed language packs. Select required one and click Apply.

5.  To verify the presence of applied languages click on Tools >> Options>> Languages

6. Now select the User interface language and click Ok.

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You need to change the sitemap to show the Dashboard:

• Export and Edit The Site Map

Navigate to Settings>>Customization>>Export customization

Change Default view to Client Extensions View and select Site Map and click on export selected customization

Edit the Site Map

Add Sub area and set the appropriate Url, like following…….

<SubArea Id=”nav_dashboard” Title=”Dashboard” Url=”/../ISV/service/dashboard.aspx” PassParams=”1″/>

After Importing the Site Map Dashboard icon will be Visible.

Create a simple page (.aspx) with following code

<html>
<body bgcolor=”#E3EFFF” leftmargin=”0″ topmargin=”0″>
<table border =”1″height=”100%” width=”100%”>
<tr height=”100%”>
<td>
<iframe height=”100%” width=”100%” src=http://localhost/ReportServer/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?%2fMachsol_MSCRM%2f4.0%2f%7b7bea487c-7302-df11-ae44-00155d3c0b2b%7d&rs%3aCommand=Render”/>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html

You just need to change the URL of Report & Report server in above code according to your deployment.

Click on dashboard and Enjoy!

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The E-mail Router is an interface between the Microsoft Dynamics CRM system and one or more Exchange servers or POP3 servers for incoming e-mail, and one or more SMTP servers for outgoing e-mail. E-mail messages come into the Microsoft Dynamics CRM system through the E-mail Router.

Install the e-mail router on a dedicated machine and Configure all users in CRM to use the E-mail Router for both incoming and outgoing e-mailConfigure the “info” CRM queue to also use the E-mail Router for both incoming and outgoing e-mail.

Both users and the queue will allow the E-mail Router to send and receive e-mail on their behalf (users do this via their personal options page, queues allow this directly from the queue entity page)

Single profiles for Incoming and Outgoing e-mail will be configured in the E-mail Router Configuration tool. These will be configured to use “User supplied credentials” for connecting to the individual  mailboxes. The incoming profile will use the POP3 e-mail server type option.

Related Resources:

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 E-mail Router Readme

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C54B428B-3565-4037-B4F3-C553F3288C45&displaylang=en

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 E-mail Router deployment guidelines

http://rc.crm.dynamics.com/rc/regcont/en_us/OP/articles/configrouter.aspx

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