Which browsers are actually supported?

Which browsers are actually supported?

by | May 29, 2016

I sometimes get people complaining to me that CRM doesn’t work in Firefox. What i usually ask them when I hear this if they are running Mac, which of course is the reason why it isn’t working. 

The simple fact is that Firefox isn’t supported for Mac. The only supported browser for Mac OS X is Safari. And Safari isn’t supported for PC.
Below is a simple matrix showing the support matrix for the browsers (for CRM 2016).
Windows 7
Windows 8/8.1
Windows 10
Mac OS X
IPad
Google Nexus 10 Tablet
IE 10
IE 11
Edge
Firefox
Chrome
Safari
Green = Supported, Red = Not supported, Grey = Not applicable
However, do note that there is a difference between “not working” and “not supported”. The latter just means that you can’t open a support case with Microsoft and complain that CRM looks weird in some of the non supported combinations described above.

So why is this? Are Microsoft just lazy? No, Just like everyone else, they have a limited amount of time, money and resources. So, they can’t test all possible combinations unless the price of Dynamics CRM were to go through the roof, and I think we all agree that we prefer it not to.

Do refer to the official documentation from Microsoft on what is supported for more detailed information.

Gustaf Westerlund
MVP, Founder and CTO at CRM-konsulterna AB
www.crmkonsulterna.se

Strange problem with Country and Country Code

by | Oct 18, 2009

A couple of days ago I had the wierdest error. We have added some fields on Acccount and a new entity called Billing Account so that there is Contry and Country Code in both. The wierd thing was that when I opened the tab with the field, after about 1 second, the country changed to “United States” and the country code to “1”. This even happened to the custom entity.

I was confused. The country code was supposed to be according to the so and so ISO standard, where Sweden is SE. Hence 1 was very incorrect. I started looking if some tired programmer might have added some javascript or similar but found nothing out of the ordinary. Then I though I’d just like to see what happens when I run IE directly from the CRM server, and praise and behold, it didn’t change the field! That narrowed it down. First I thought it was google Toolbar, so I uninstalled it, but the error was still there. Then I tried running IE in InPrivate surfing and then it didn’t change it! So, there must be some plugin in IE that causes it. After some uninstalling and testing I found it, Swedbank has this “e-kort” or e-card program that let’s you generate a one-time VISA number, this was the program that caused this error. It is probably some program this Swedish bank has bought from some american company and it has this weird feature.

Well, that just teaches you, don’t install a lot of crap into IE. 🙂

Gustaf Westerlund
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Chief Architect

Logica
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