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Listed below are news items relating to Microsoft CRM we have collected over the months.
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Readiness
What’s New in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 - Top 60 Feature Guide ... Read these four white papers to learn how Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 performed on ...

Bill Ryan’s Other Blog » 6 new CRM 4.0 Accelerator Videos
6 new CRM 4.0 Accelerator Videos. December 15th, 2008. If you’re doing any Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 development, the CRM Accelerators up on CodePlex are pure gold.
The CRM team just added 6 more videos to the series. ...
Bill Ryan's Other Blog - http://www.williamgryan.com/blog/

New features coming in CRM 5
By Ross Lotharius
This means that it will be possible to run custom code in the CRM Online environment and achieve true parity between On-Premise, Partner-Hosted and Microsoft-Hosted deployments. Plug-In Transaction Support - In CRM 4.0 you could ...
ascentium | Microsoft Dynamics... - http://www.ascentium.com/blog

How Do I Move CRM 4.0 Reports To A New SQL Report Server?
By Hasret Smajlovic(Hasret Smajlovic)
I don’t know that you would need to move reports yet, now that you are on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 – but may come up some day. So – how do you do it? With CRM 3.0, you may have needed to move reports off the CRM server – or just move ...
Welcome to my blog its all about MS CRM! - http://hasrett.blogspot.com/

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 E-Service Portal Accelerator is Now ...
By Paul Velgos
Business Productivity: A collection of time-saving productivity customizations for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0; Sales Methodologies: Practical Guidance for adoption of third-party sales methodologies such as SPI Solution Selling, ...
Paul Velgos' Microsoft CRM Blog - http://www.crmdynamics.net/

Dynamics CRM 4.0 - Update Rollup 1 now available for download (KB ...
By Christian
Microsoft has released Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Server, Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Microsoft Office Outlook, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 E-mail Router. For more information about this release, see Microsoft ...
Dynamo for Dynamics CRM - http://crmdynamo.com/

Accelerators for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 are now available
By DynamicsBlog
CRM Accelerators are a range of add-on solutions developed for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 customers and partners. Each accelerator is available at no cost and will showcase how the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 platform can be configured ...
Partner Blog Community - http://ts2blogs.com/blogs/default.aspx?GroupID=3

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 5.0 features
By Stefano Demiliani
This means that it will be possible to run custom code in the CRM Online environment and achieve true parity between On-Premise, Partner-Hosted and Microsoft-Hosted deployments. Plug-In Transaction Support - In CRM 4.0 you could ...
STEFANO DEMILIANI - http://demiliani.com/blog/

Ways to build up a CRM dashboard
By Jim Wang(Jim Wang)
dashboard to integrate with CRM, it's a good idea to build up your own ASP.Net page with FusionChart. I would say it won't disappoint you. 4. CRM Analytics Accelerator This well-known add-ons is not available for CRM 4.0 at the moment, ...
Microsoft Dynamics CRM - Jim... - http://jianwang.blogspot.com/

Microsoft et le XRM...
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is built on a sophisticated line-of-business application platform that provides the basic services required by ISVs and developers to build upon. While this ability is clearly applicable in CRM-type scenarios, ...
Viadeo - Forums CRM - http://www.viadeo.com/hub/listehub/

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Help Update (On-Premise Edition)
By microsoftPost
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Sample Data (On-Premise Edition); Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook (For On-Premise and Hosted Editions); Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 E-mail Router Readme (On Premise); Microsoft CRM Online Data Migration to ...
Microsoft Download Center ::... - http://www.microsoftpost.com

Enhancing user experience using Shortcuts
By Adi Katz(Adi Katz)
In order to address this I’ve created a very handy utility class which facilitates the creation of shortcuts on all types of crm functions ie menu items, toolbar buttons, navigation links, fields and tabs. The nice thing about this ...
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 - Unleashed - http://mscrm4ever.blogspot.com/

Auto Numbering in CRM 4.0 (with custom workflow )
By Aamir Bashir
I have created a readonly field on Account entity” new_auto” to hold the “Guid” of Account. As GUID is always unique , so there is no question about it being duplication. We can use prefix whatever we want. As one can see AC- (GUID). ...
It's all about Microsoft CRM - http://mscrmsupport.wordpress.com

 

CRM Best Practices Explained: Ease of Use
TMC Net - Norwalk,CT,USA
Because their marketing materials say so: "User interface improvements make Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 even easier to use and make it simpler to complete ...
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New Updates relesed to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 SDK
By Rahul Manekari(Rahul Manekari)
The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) is for developers, system customizers, and report writers. It contains all new information about creating plug-ins, working with custom workflow activities, using the new Web ...
Be Live...with Me...!!! - http://manekari.blogspot.com/

Microsoft Dynamics CRM SDK
This document describes the essential steps to setting up the environment before installing Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM ...

Deploying a Custom Workflow Activity to CRM 4.0
By Steve(Greg Galipeau)
I recently ran into a problem deploying a custom workflow activity assembly to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. After figuring out that I needed to download (and build) the Plugin Registration Tool, I thought it would be smooth sailing. ...
RDA Collaboration Evangelist Team Blog - http://rdacollab.blogspot.com/

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Analytics and Enterprise Search ...
The Analytics and Enterprise Search Accelerators are now available for download. Newly Released Analytics: Extends business intelligence for Microsoft.
Paul Velgos' Microsoft CRM Blog - http://www.crmdynamics.net/

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog : Check Out Our New Articles and ...
If you read Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 technical articles , especially our two new articles that cover plug-ins and how to generate entity diagrams, you may have noticed a new Community Content feature, shown here.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/default.aspx

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Management Pack for Microsoft ... By Imad HAJJAR We are happy to announce availability of the CRM 4.0 Management Pack which will help administrators centrally manage the CRM server application, its component services, and the computers on which they run. Administrators can tune the ... Javista - Microsoft Dynamics CRM blog - http://blogs.javista.com

Simplified filtered lookups for Microsoft CRM By Joel Lindstrom Ross at http://advantageworks.blogspot.com has an interesting idea for filtered lookups in CRM 4.0. I'm frequently asked to filter lookups to make CRM more user friendly, such as filtering a contact lookup to just contacts at a selected ... Customer Effective Blog - http://blog.CustomerEffective.com/blog/

How to Access Microsoft CRM 4.0 from a Mac By Adam Smith Several of our clients have asked if they can access our hosted Microsoft CRM via their Mac. While there’s no officially supported way to access CRM from a Mac, there are some clever work arounds that should be good enough for most ... - http://blog.phase2int.com/

Dynamics CRM 4.0 Certification MB2-632 Exam By admin Microsoft mbs exam MB2-632 Exam, namely Applications in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 exam. when Dynamics CRM 4.0 Certification exam MB2-632 released by microsoft official website, in the internet many exam sites continued to release ... Online Microsoft Certification... - http://www.microsoft-certification-exam.org/

Microsoft CRM Many-To-Many Relationship Considerations By Joel Lindstrom When you are planning your CRM configuration, an important consideration is whether or not to use a N:N relationship. This new relationship fills a much needed gap from Microsoft CRM 3.0; however, there are a few things to keep in mind. ... Customer Effective Blog - http://blog.CustomerEffective.com/blog/

Using Client side JavaScript to ensure that phone numbers is in ... Place in the change event on the field that you want the phone number to be in the correct format. var telephoneMaskRegularExpresion = new RegExp("[+]\\d\\d\\s[(]\\d[)]\\d\\d\\s\\d\\d\\d\\s\\d\\d\\d\\d","i"); var phoneNumberToValidate ... Rihan Meij - http://RihanMeij.spaces.live.com/

CRM for Real Estate Tool from Ascendix for Microsoft Platform Released TMCnet - USA By David Sims Ascendix Technologies is pleased to announce the release of Real Estate Advantage 4.1 for the Microsoft (News - Alert) Dynamics CRM 4.0 ... See all stories on this topic

Enhancing CRM 4: Workflows vs. Plugins By mitch Back in the dark ages, like with CRM 3.0, we were often faced with writing .NET code to provide certain enhanced data manipulation capabilities as either Callouts or Workflow Assemblies. CRM 4.0 totally changes that mind set - and as a ... Mitch Milam's Microsoft Discussions... - http://blogs.infinite-x.net

Workflow - Phone Call Conversion of Lead to Opportunity By Imad HAJJAR In every version of CRM I have had a favorite feature that I tend to obsess slightly over. In Version 3.0, it was Client Side Scripting. In 4.0, it is Workflow. The Workflow engine in CRM has so much possibility to help transform ... Javista - Microsoft Dynamics CRM blog - http://blogs.javista.com

Deletion Service in Microsoft CRM 4.0 By Joel Kriel Welcome ScaleGroup Job Editor! Simply install on the CRM 4.0 server and now you can actually set when the delete service runs!! Thank you to the East Region Microsoft CRM blog. I recommend checking this blog weekly for other very useful ... Try Catch Consulting Weblog - http://tccubed.wordpress.com

Microsoft CRM 4.0 SDK Update Released (4.0.5) By Aaron Elder Writing Custom Code for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 for Outlook, Added new topic that contains information about using the Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook SDK. CrmService.Create method using JScript CrmService. ... ascentium | Blog - http://www.ascentium.com/blog

Microsoft CRM 4.0 Application series eLearning available By Mike Snyder Microsoft recently posted the eLearning material in PartnerSource/CustomerSource for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Applications series (collection 8913). These sessions are a pretty decent introduction to the core functionality of ... Sonoma Partners Microsoft CRM Blog - http://blog.sonomapartners.com/

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 : Advanced Find with John O'Donnell By jodonnell Hello and welcome to another Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 screencast. In this presentation I talk about the Advanced Find feature and why you should invest the time to learn more about its powerful capabilities. After all, you just never ... Channel 9 - http://channel9.msdn.com

 MSCRM 4.0 Bulk Data Export Tool By WaiYip Within CRM theres no tools to Bulk Export the data. This sample tool allows users to connect to Online Microsoft CRM 4.0 organization and export records of CRM entities in form of CSV files. -Before connecting, make sure you open CRM ... Phase 2 International Blog - http://blog.phase2int.com/

5.      Microsoft Dynamics CRM SDK version 4.0.5! By Bill Owens(Bill Owens) New walkthrough that shows how you can use a Web Debugging proxy to capture SOAP packets for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web service calls from a console application. New sample showing how to add a new Web page to the navigation pane. ... Bill Owens on Microsoft Dynamics... - http://billoncrmtech.blogspot.com/

MS CRM 4.0 Certification By liam106 Just managed after two pretty intensive days to get through the Microsoft CRM 4.0 Installation and Deployment exam. It was very much as I recall other MS exams – short questions and mostly single answer multiple choice. ... What is the norm? - http://liam106.wordpress.com

CRM 4.0 Simplified Sales Process Scenario By crmblog We often use scenarios such as this to test the individual components and entities of CRM in an integrated fashion. This is one example of a very simple sales scenario describing the flow of user actions in the Sales module of CRM. ... Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/default.aspx  

http://www.crm-isv.info/howtos.aspx lots including:

2 ways to see combined account and order data Understand which types of accounts generate the most revenue for your company by viewing sales orders based on customer type and industry. This data can help you decide where to target your marketing and sales efforts.

3 steps to control the Form Assistant Pane Customize Microsoft CRM forms to control whether the Form Assistant Pane is open or closed by default.

CRM 4.0 Bulk Data Export Tool By crmblog There is no facility to Bulk Export the data from Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. This sample tool allows users to connect to On Premise or Online Microsoft CRM 4.0 organization and export records of CRM entities in form of CSV files. ... Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/default.aspx

Freaky CRM Link Love for April 2008 By menno(My name) Ending the month of April with a collection of links to great posts about Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Upgrading CRM 3.0 SBE to CRM 4.0 Professional Part 1 Upgrading CRM 3.0 SBE to CRM 4.0 Professional Part 2 Register your copy of Microsoft ... Menno te Koppele - a CRM freak - http://www.tekoppele.com/Blog/

Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a Business Application Platform  http://www.ascentium.com/blog/crm/Post85.aspx

6.      Beatnik's Microsoft CRM Blog - http://marioraunig.blogspot.com/

7.      Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Exam Availability By jodonnell The Dynamics CRM 4.0 Exams will be available from April 25th. Read more here. http://blogs.msdn.com/jodonnell/archive/2008/04/24/microsoft-dynamics-crm-4-0-exam-availability.aspx. US ISV Developer Evangelism Team - http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/default.aspx

8.      Microsoft CRM on Virtual Server Now Supported for Production ... By Joel Lindstrom With 4.0, Microsoft has changed the support policy to fully support CRM running on Microsoft virtualization platforms for production environments, and partially support it for non-Microsoft virtualization platforms (like VMware). ... Customer Effective Blog - http://blog.CustomerEffective.com/blog/

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Implementation Guide update 4.1.0 is ... By crmblog The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Implementation Guide update 4.1.0 is now available and contains the following:. Over 50 corrections and revisions. 3 new topics. Make Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Client-to-Server Network Communications More ... Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/default.aspx

How Dynamic IS Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0? By Unitek CRM Team Throughout my experiences instructing and consulting with Microsoft CRM, the majority of CRM implementations that I’ve seen and worked with, all look exactly alike! It doesn’t matter what industry they are in, or what they sell, ... Unitek Microsoft CRM Blog - http://www.unitek.com/training/microsoft/crm/blog

The Resource Center in 131 seconds By menno(My name) You are wondering what the Resource Center in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 can do for you? If that's the case, you might want to take a look at this video during your lunch break or perhaps when you're multi tasking on "one of those" ... Menno te Koppele - a CRM freak - http://www.tekoppele.com/Blog/

How to prepare Excel Data Sources for Microsoft CRM 4.0 Data Load? By szedert(szedert) There are great new opportunities placed into Microsoft CRM 4.0 (Titan). First of all I examined data load via user interface tools. It is not equal to Data Migration Framework – which is high performance tool made for IT persons or at ... Tibor's CRM blog - http://tiborscrmblog.blogspot.com/

 Using the CRM Outlook client without a VPN Connection By crmblog Version 4.0 includes a new authenticated mode, called Internet Facing Deployment (IFD) mode, specifically designed to eliminate the VPN requirement. The Implementation Guide – “Sample Server XML Configuration File for Internet-Facing ... Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/default.aspx

Lessons learned from using the CRM IFD tool By Joel Lindstrom With Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, you can configure your CRM implementation to work internet facing. In other words, users can access CRM without having to be logged in to your network or using VPN, and they can access all functionality, ... Customer Effective Blog - http://blog.CustomerEffective.com/blog/

Microsoft rechristens hosted Dynamics CRM Ovum - London,England,UK Perhaps more significant, though, is that in building Titan, Microsoft made sure that a single code base would support three distinct deployment models ... See all stories on this topic

SDK 4.04 Available on Downloads By menno(My name) Apparently I missed the fact that Microsoft has updated the Microsoft Dynamics CRM SDK to version 4.0.4. You can download the updated SDK 4.0.4 here. Please refer to the sdkreadme.htm to see the latest information/updates. ... Menno te Koppele - a CRM freak - http://www.tekoppele.com/Blog/

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Suggested Hardware for Deployments of ... This document summarizes the performance test results of 500 concurrent users of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 executing a mix of sales, marketing, service, data management, reporting, workflow and Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook with ... Airline Travel - http://www.travel-hilarity.com/airline_travel

Free E-Book part II By Tip and Trick(Tip and Trick) 10-184 - US MS-03-010 Microsoft CRM Installation and Configuration v. 1.2 117-101 - General Linux, Part 1 117-102 - General Linux, Part 2 117-201 - Linux Advanced Administration 117-202 - Linux Networking Administration ... Tip and Trick - http://link2-me.blogspot.com/

CRM 4.0 Customization Version Add-In By philip(Philip Richardson) I've just uploaded the CRM 4.0 Customization Version Add-In. This little Add-In helps CRM developers keep a record of the customizations on their systems. I've included the source code and a little configuration app - so it's super easy ... Philip Richardson - http://www.philiprichardson.org/blog/

Freaky CRM Link Love for March 2008 By menno(My name) Phil Richardson updated his 3.0 examples Jonas Deibe's caching tool for every version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM First steps to get started with CRM Online Configure email (v4.0) for Small Businesses CRM 4.0 License Key Upgrade Matrix ... - http://www.tekoppele.com/Blog/

CRM 4.0 - SDK 4.0.3 - New Version Available The new version is 4.0.3 and now includes the Report Writers Guide for information regarding the development and deployment of CRM reports. Report development for CRM 4.0 is an area I have been working on lately and it certainly has ... Yellow Duck Guy - http://YellowDuckGuy.spaces.live.com/

AbleBridge Launches Quick Start for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live TMCnet - USA Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live is the company’s newest on-demand software service. It provides the power of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 delivered as an online ... See all stories on this topic

CRM 4.0 - MSDN Code Gallery Releases >Jim Schumacher provides these very nice CRM Quick Campaign and Campaign Scenario Flowcharts. SilverLight Demo >The updated Silverlight sample works with CRM 4.0. You can read more about it at the CRM Team Blog here: ...

MS CRM 4.0 Titan First Impression By patrickyong MS CRM is one of the most customisable business application inside Microsoft and I mean besides APIs and SDKs for developers, end users can also customize features within it. Workflow is one great example shown above, which is meant for ... Patrick's Bytes - http://patrickyong.net

EDS and Microsoft pair for Dynamics CRM offer DM News - New York,NY,USA EDS will incorporate version 4.0 of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, which launched in January, into its global CRM offering, and the two companies will work ... See all stories on this topic

Top Features of Microsoft CRM By Charger While the features of Microsoft CRM 4.0 are extensive, a few of the top ones include scalability, availability, and performance. By installing Microsoft CRM, you can change the way in which your business operates, for the better. ... Charger Cast - http://www.chargercast.com/

Tips to Improve Company Performance By Admin Using the new, Microsoft CRM 4.0 software program, you can completely change the way you handle customers. As a result, you will see your business’ performance skyrocket. Okay, so what makes this particular program so great? ... Meatrix Weblog! - http://www.meatrix.org

There’s more than one way to make Microsoft software ’serviceable’ ZDNet - USA And Dynamics CRM 4.0, the latest version of Microsoft’s CRM product, can be deployed by customers in on-premise, partner-hosted and/or Microsoft-hosted ... See all stories on this topic

Mail Merge function for custom entities upgraded from CRM 3.0 By Jim Wang(Jim Wang) There's a new flag in CRM 4.0 customizations.xml, calls: IsMailMergeEnabled which wasn't exist on CRM 3.0 customizations.xml. When we upgrade CRM from 3.0 to 4.0, it's supposed to be upgraded as well, but it doesn't. ... Microsoft Dynamics CRM - Jim... - http://jianwang.blogspot.com/

Microsoft CRM 4.0 Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD) By Joel Lindstrom A client asked me yesterday if I had an ERD for the system entities in Microsoft CRM 4.0. The good news (for me) was that I didn't have to create one—Microsoft has recently added very detailed ERD diagrams for CRM 4.0 to the download ... Customer Effective Blog - http://blog.CustomerEffective.com/blog/

Microsoft CRM 4.0: Mail Merge Improvements – Part I By Unitek CRM Team Unitek’s Microsoft CRM Practice not only specializes in CRM Certifications, but also has a large force related to CRM 3.0 & 4.0 Consulting Services. With that in mind, I’d like to talk a little bit about some of the issues that we have ... Unitek Microsoft CRM Blog - http://www.unitek.com/training/microsoft/crm/blog

CRM at G&A Contact Center, Microsoft CRM and Scribe and ... TMC Net - Norwalk,CT,USA The Scribe Adapter for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, built on the latest Microsoft Dynamics CRM API, supports the multi-organization capabilities now ... See all stories on this topic

Metadata Privileges in CRM 4.0 By Michael Höhne(Michael Höhne) If you have developed applications targeting Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 and you have used the metadata service to make your software really dynamic, then you may face some serious problems when running against a CRM 4.0 installation. ... stunnware's CRM corner - http://www.stunnware.com/crm2/default.aspx

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Microsoft CRM 4.0 Site Map Surgery Tips Part 2 By Joel Lindstrom Yesterday I posted some tricks and tips for Microsoft CRM site map surgery. With CRM 4.0, we now have a new option, the Microsoft CRM Demonstration Tools. This is a fantastic set of tools designed for demo/test purposes. ... - http://blog.CustomerEffective.com/blog/

Developing Custom Workflow Activities for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 By Michael Höhne(Michael Höhne) Developing custom workflow activities enables us to merge our own requirements with the Microsoft CRM 4.0 workflow features. To demonstrate how it works, we will develop a custom workflow activity that exports product information to a ... stunnware's CRM corner - http://www.stunnware.com/crm2/default.aspx

 

White Paper: Optimizing and Maintaining Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 This document provides techniques, considerations, and best practices for optimizing and maintaining the performance of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 implementations. Structured to support a tier-based optimization methodology, ... BioSensorAB - http://www.biosensorab.org

 

Webinar: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 for Administrators By Jim Glass You might have learned about some of the key enhancements in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, but are still unsure how to upgrade to the new version. Join Mike Snyder of Sonoma Partners for a webinar specifically for CRM administrators ... A CRM Riff - http://blogs.msdn.com/jim_glass/default.aspx

 

E-mail to Case/Lead Using CRM 4 Workflow By crmblog In this blog, I’ll give a walkthrough’ of how you can use CRM 4.0’s workflow capabilities to automatically convert emails into cases. Say you want to automatically create a case for every email sent to: support@mycompany.com ... - http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/default.aspx

 

Pseudo-Filtered Lookup Dialog in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 By Ross(Ross) However, in Microsoft CRM 4.0 this customization no longer works and when you attempt it you receive the following depressing error:. CRM Parameter Filter - Invalid parameter 'fetchXml=...' in Request. ...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Demonstration Tools By Ofer Narkis(Ofer Narkis) Post about the tools : http://blogs.msdn.com/mscrmfreak/archive/2008/02/04/available-microsoft-dynamics-crm-4-0-demonstration-tools.aspx download the tool here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx? ... crmAI - http://crmai.blogspot.com/

 

Good post on relationship types in Microsoft CRM 4.0 By Joel Lindstrom The Microsoft CRM team has a great post explaining the different types of relationships that you can do with CRM 4.0. I especially like the nice visual illustration that they included. They also provide an overview of how to create and ... Customer Effective Blog - http://blog.CustomerEffective.com/blog/

 

Using CRM 4.0 Web Services in client-side JavaScript By Michael Höhne(Michael Höhne) You may have noticed that I'm in the middle of migrating everything from Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 to 4.0. One of the most used tools in version 3 was the .NET to JavaScript conversion tool and a lot of you asked if it's still working ... stunnware's CRM corner - http://www.stunnware.com/crm2/default.aspx

Has CRM Software become too complex to perform its primary function? By massey21(Rebecca Messenger) Complex systems such as Microsoft CRM 4.0, Sage CRM and Saleslogix demand a large technical understanding from their end users and companies usually endure large training costs. Used properly, end users can still track contacts and ... CRM Solutions - http://crmsolutions.blogspot.com/

 

MSCRM Client Diagnostics- End User Diagnostics Report By crmblog After starting the MSCRM Client Diagnostics feature (from the ‘Start’ menu, under ‘Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0’, by clicking ‘Diagnostics’), client diagnostics are started by clicking the ‘Run Diagnostics’ button. ... Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/default.aspx

Bill Gates on CRM 4.0 By Dipesh Joshi(Dipesh Joshi) http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/news/2207826/microsoft-rivals-salesforce-crm. .NET Architecture - http://archdipesh.blogspot.com/

CRM 4.0 Campaign vs. Quick Campaign Flow Chart By crmblog Now my final chart compares the two ways to do a Campaign. You can get a copy of this chart from the Quick Campaign download you may have already downloaded or from here. CampaignVsQuickCampaign (3). Enjoy,. Jim Schumacher. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/default.aspx

 

Self Referential Relationships with Microsoft CRM 4.0 By Joel Lindstrom Many Microsoft CRM 3.0 users have expressed a desire to be able to create new self-referential relationships. 3.0 only included one of these relationships—the account/parent account relationship. Say you wanted to create a parent case ... Customer Effective Blog - http://blog.CustomerEffective.com/blog/

 

MS CRM 4.0 - Common Upgrade Issues By Imran - Microsoft CRM Developer(Imran - Microsoft CRM Developer) Keep following things in your mind if you are upgrading from MS CRM 3.0 to CRM 4.0 Any Un supported customization will not upgradeAny 3rd party tool will not upgrade like C360 components etc. It will give you trouble so first remove ... Microsoft CRM - http://microsoftcrm3.blogspot.com/

Microsoft Virtual PC Optimization By hussain At work, we've been using Microsoft's VirtualPC 2007 to do CRM 4.0 development for a few months now. This entails booting what's turned into a 16 gb VHD - Windows 2003 Server R2 SP2, SQL Server 2005 SP2 (w/ patches), SRS, CRM 4.0, ... excerpts. - http://blog.chinoy.com/default.aspx

 

Getting Creepy With Your Data TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA Developer Jane Mantilla offers a few development tips for code customizations for Microsoft CRM 4.0. "Why am I talking about code customizations and not ... See all stories on this topic

CRM 4.0 Workflow: Setting the Primary Contact’s Parent Customer By mitch I am becoming more and more impressed with the workflow capabilities of CRM 4.0. I am finding that I can create workflows to automate minor tasks to enhance CRM’s functionality or to correct what I consider to be "annoyances." ... Mitch Milam's Microsoft Discussions - http://blogs.infinite-x.net

 

Few development tips for CRM 4.0 If you are working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and your planning to do code customizations then you probably should keep on reading. And why am I talking about code customizations and not just customizations? ... - http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/

 

What's new in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Overview of the new features in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 in a small business environment By Susanne Dansey If you have Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Small Business Edition and want to upgrade to version 4.0, there is no equivalent edition. There are three editions within the CRM 4.0 family:. Workgroup server - includes and supports a MAXIMUM of ... UK SMB Girl - http://www.uksmbgirl.co.uk/blog

CRM 4.0 Internet Facing Deployment (IFD) By Matt Wittemann(Matt Wittemann) Microsoft has released a document detailing how to set up CRM 4.0 for an Internet-Facing Deployment so it can be accessed by users across the internet. Very helpful and timely! ICU MSCRM - http://icu-mscrm.blogspot.com/

 

CRM 4.0 installation poll results so far By mitch image. Tag: Dynamics CRMDynamics CRM. Mitch Milam's Microsoft Discussions - http://blogs.infinite-x.net

 

Download details: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Implementation Guide This guide contains comprehensive information about how to plan, install, and maintain Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.

Part 2: Happy Birthday via Workflow using Custom Workflow Activity By crmblog NOTE: CRM 4.0 stores all dates and times in Universal Time (UTC) within CRM 4.0. The date / time is converted to the current user’s time zone when it is retrieved and converted to UTC when it is updated. Any calculations that require a ... Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/default.aspx

 

Enabling Mail Merge for upgraded custom entities By Mike Snyder One of the great new features in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is the ability to create mail merge documents on custom entities. However, we just recently discovered that when you upgrade from Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 to 4.0, ... Sonoma Partners Microsoft CRM Blog - http://blog.sonomapartners.com/

 

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