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While developing new or extending existing custom workflow activies you might experience a problem that new or updated  input parameters will not show up on the workflow designer UI. In the Plugin Registrations tool you successfully updated the assembly, but still it does not show up on the UI. A simple trick solves the issue: In the Plugin Registration Tool select the workflow activity that you want to update and press the save button in the properties section.

Currently it looks like that the Bing Maps form control cannot be rendered in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Mobile Apps for Phone and Tablets. I added it to my form and published the changes to my Lumia 950 Windows Mobile 10 device and still missed the Bing Maps. Looks extremely like it not supported! BUT… … I found out that if you click on one of the blueish links of the Address section if will open the native Maps app of my device:

Todays I made a classical mistake. I assumed that the Bing Maps in CRM is activated by default and I was wondering why I did not see the map of my opened account record. Simple enough was the solution: Go to Settings > Administration > System Settings > Open General tab Check Yes on the “Show Bing Maps on forms” setting.

The Outlook CRM add-in includes the diagnostics tool. This allows various configuration options. For some cases it might be useful to deactivate the Outlook Synchronization. Usually, this tool is installed in this path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics CRM\Client\res\web\bin you can open the tool from command line if you want: Microsoft.Crm.Outlook.Diagnostics.exe If you want to configure multiple machines or use policies to deactivate synchronziation you can also use a registry key for that: The key you want to look for is “ RunOutlookScheduledSync ” or “ RunOfflineScheduledSync ” if you use offline functionality. Setting to 0 (zero) disables it. Setting to 1 enables this feature. Remark: Replace ORG_ID with your actual organization id. Create Windows Registry deactivate.reg file for deactivation of sync: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSCRMClient\{ORG_ID}] "RunOutlookScheduledSync"=dword:...