Posted in ClickDimensions, Dynamics 365, Dynamics 365 Marketing, and Power Platform
Today I had the challenge to display the plain text version of an email on a Windows device. I gave the Outlook setting “Read all standard mail in plain text” in the Trust Center a try, but it only removes the images and formatting from the the HTML version of the email.
Finally I found in the internet that Thunderbird is able to show the text version of a mailing.
Here is the way to switch the view.
And this is of course also helpful for plain text emails with Dynamics 365 Marketing.
Posted in ClickDimensions, Dynamics 365, Dynamics 365 Marketing, and Power Platform
Email marketing tools automatic add query strings at the end of urls of your hyperlinks. That’s a common way to pass additional informations to the target website inside of hyperlinks. Mostly these are informations about which channel the visitor came and to which campaign the visit is related to.
The target website should validate the passed query strings and ignore them if it don’t know what to do with. But sometimes you a have target website that crash painfully with a 404 error.
Instead of trying to fix the targets understanding of the query strings, you can mask the query strings when you create the hyperlink in your email marketing tool.
Just put the anchor identifier “#” at the end your link url. By that way the recipients web browser interprets the query string as an anchor within the target website. As there is no anchor text with that name on the target website, it has no effect. That’s in the specification of HTML since version 4.01 from 1999 – yes that was is in the last century.
You see how important it is to test your mailing with real recipients.
At the eXtreme CRM 2015 in Madrid we played all together the “Dynamics CRM Trivia” at the evening event and I realized that I do have absolutely no idea about the time before I started in 2011 with Dynamics CRM. In addition to that the release cycles have become increasingly shorter and more products were added and I am also only hardly able to remember when was which released. To fill both gaps at once, I have created this Dynamics CRM timeline.
Short introduction, to the left it goes into the past and the release dates are accurate to the month.
If you want to create a timeline by yourself, you can do it at knight lab.
Posted in Dynamics 365, Microsoft Social Engagement, and Power Platform
It’s not really easy to find a reasonable price list for Microsoft Dynamics Online services prices. Recently I found but one at Microsoft and I take the liberty to adopt this for my blog. I’ve changed it a little bit, grouped by product and supplemented by one point. In my opinion it is a very useful overview. I’ll update the prices here regularly and track the changes.
Below you’ll find an “update” box in which I record the changes with date. If I make an update, I will also leave an update, so that you can subscribe to the comment feed to be always up to date.
Here is the Comment-Feed.
| Product | Price | Unit |
| Dynamics CRM Online Essential | €12,70 ($15.00) | / User / Month |
| Dynamics CRM Online Basic | €25,30 ($30.00) | / User / Month |
| Dynamics CRM Online Professional | €54,80 ($65.00) | / User / Month |
| Dynamics CRM Online Professional Add-On to Office 365 | €42,20 ($50.00) | / User / Month |
| Dynamics CRM Online Enterprise | €168,70 ($200.00) | / User / Month |
| Product | Price | Unit |
| Dynamics CRM Online – Enhanced Support | €4,20 ($5.00) | / User / Month |
| Dynamics CRM Online – Professional Direct Support | €7,60 ($9.00) | / User / Month |
| Dynamics CRM Online – Additional Storage | €8,40 ($9.99) | / GB / Month |
| Dynamics CRM Online – Additional Production Instance | €463,00 ($549.00) | / Instanz / Month |
| Dynamics CRM Online – Additional Non-Production Instance | €126,50 ($150.00) | / Instanz / Month |
| Dynamics CRM Online – Portal Add-On | €421,70 ($500.00) | / Portal / Month |
| Dynamics CRM Online – Additional Portal Page Views | €42,20 ($50.00) | / 500k / Month |
| Dynamics CRM Online – Field Service User Add-On | €29,50 ($35.00) | / User / Month |
| Dynamics CRM Online – Employee Self Service | €2,50 ($3.00) | / User / Month |
| Product | Price | Unit |
| Dynamics Marketing Enterprise | €105,40 ($125.00) | / User / Month |
| Dynamics Marketing Additional Email Messages | €16,90 ($20.00) | / 10k / Month |
| Dynamics Marketing Additional Storage | €1,70 ($2.00) | / GB / Month |
| Dynamics Marketing Sales Collaboration | €1,70 ($2.00) | / User / Month |
| Dynamics Marketing Enhanced Support | €4,20 ($5.00) | / User / Month |
| Dynamics Marketing Professional Direct Support | €7,60 ($9.00) | / User / Month |
| Product | Price | Unit |
| Social Engagement Enterprise | €105,40 ($125.00) | / User / Month |
| Social Engagement Professional | €63,20 ($75.00) | / User / Month |
| Social Engagement Enhanced Support | €4,20 ($5.00) | / User / Month |
| Social Engagement Professional Direct Support | €7,60 ($9.00) | / User / Month |
| Social Engagement Additional Posts (100 Einheiten Minimum) | €33,70 ($40.00) | / 10k / Month |
| Social Engagement Additional Posts (10 Einheiten Minimum) | €59,00 ($70.00) | / 10k / Month |
| Social Engagement Additional Posts (Kein Minimum) | €84,30 ($100.00) | / 10k / Month |
| Product | Price | Unit |
| Parature Enterprise | €105,40 ($125.00) | / User / Month |
| Parature Additional Departments | €168,70 ($200.00) | / Abteilung / Month |
| Parature Additional File Storage | €16,90 ($20.00) | / GB / Month |
| Parature Additional Page Views | €42,20 ($50.00) | / 500k / Month |
| Parature Additional Records | €42,20 ($50.00) | / 500k / Month |
| Parature Enhanced Support | €4,20 ($5.00) | / User / Month |
| Parature Professional Direct Support | €7,60 ($9.00) | / User / Month |
22.08.2015: Updated prices for Microsoft fiscal year 2015
22.08.2015: Updated source URL
17.05.2015: Added “Social Engagement Enterprise”.
17.05.2015: “Social Engagement Professional” reduced from 76,70 ($) to 57,53 ($).
17.05.2015: Renamed “Social Listening” into “Social Enagement”.
04.01.2015: Added Parature.