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A measure that could not record early

by site-publisher | Sep 9, 2026 | Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM

The mutual action plan agreed with a customer now records what was promised and what actually happened. The third piece, how far each step slipped, turned out to be unable to hold a negative number, so a step finished ahead of its date and a step finished exactly on...

Unused, unreferenced, and still not safe to delete

by site-publisher | Sep 9, 2026 | Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM

Ten automations in the CRM were switched off, and the system’s own dependency check said nothing pointed at any of them. On that evidence all ten looked equally disposable. Half of them still could not be deleted. Five were removed and five were kept, for...

Three date fields that existed on every row, and had never once been written

by site-publisher | Sep 9, 2026 | Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM

The sales process keeps a plan of the steps to a first commitment, with a target date, a baseline and a slippage figure on each row. A question about the slippage field turned out to have an awkward answer: nothing computes it, nothing writes it, and every row in the...

A monitor that could not tell a dead resolver from a deleted record

by site-publisher | Sep 5, 2026 | Automation

An alert reported that two mail authentication records had stopped resolving. Both were correct, and had been throughout. What the alert had no way to say was that the machine asking had lost its network at the moment it asked. The lookup command exits with one code,...

Publishing the instrument before the policy it measures

by site-publisher | Sep 5, 2026 | Architecture

MTA-STS tells sending mail servers to require a valid TLS connection and to refuse delivery rather than fall back if they cannot get one. Turning that on without evidence is a way to lose mail quietly, so the reporting channel went up first, on its own, and collected...

The 202% rise that the measurement window invented

by site-publisher | Sep 5, 2026 | Authgnosis Website

Five consecutive weekly reviews had built on a number the measurement window produced. Checking it against the source data changed what the strategy should do next. A weekly review had reported site impressions rising 202% over five weeks while clicks stayed flat, and...
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