We are in the process of finalising the last few sessions for Tech Ed Australia which is being held on The Gold Coast 8-11th of September. We received such great content submissions this year on all of the tracks. I was particularly proud of the great...

Today while complaining that I hadn't realised last Monday was a public holiday when arranging our latest BizSpark Camp for Windows 7 development, Developer Evangelist extraordinaire, Andrew Coates kindly pointed out that Outlook has an option to import...

I am often asked by partners about the upcoming training sessions and how they find out about what’s available. I know that this information is often buried deep within the Partner website so the Partner team have been working to expand the communications...

Yesterday I tracked down our local NAV Escalation Engineer (AKA NAV Guru) Johan Emilsson to get him to share his Dynamics NAV & Virtual Earth integration. He recently designed a Solution to Optimise Routes using the Virtual Earth API, and then embedded...

This week the lovely Nina Vines who is the CRM Technical Specialist from our Australian Dynamics team joined me to record the first in our series of webcasts on the new Dynamics CRM accelerators. We decided to do these after receiving so many requests...

While I was away I got this very exciting news in my inbox I am now planning a trip down to Melbourne to attend the awards!  I think its a fantastic example of why you should take the time to nominate your company for awards – as the extra visibility...

I do love this time of year, the pretty purple flowers of the Jacaranda have fallen (all over my car) and the shops are filled with people rushing about to save the Global Financial Crisis, one purchase at a time. Our house is decked out with tacky Christmas...

If you missed the presentation Carol Bowman & I did at the Australian Partner Conference on the Gold Coast last week, it incorporated a listing of the key resources & tools that Microsoft provides to help ISV’s along their way to ultimately achieving...

Just playing around with importing & exporting some customisations and came across an issue where I was trying to import some CRM Customisations from a system that had Roll Up 1 applied. I was trying to import these onto the standard demo VPC (which...

The last week spent at PDC was just amazing. I am still processing so much of what was announced and trying to understand the kind of impact its going to have on the scalability & interoperability & range of devices that can now be targeted. I...

Just days after being announced as the ISV/Solutions international Innovation award winner for their Business Analytics for Microsoft Dynamics Solution , we received confirmation overnight last night that Zap Technology have now been the first company...

      The Power of Lightswitch on Windows Azure       EVENT DETAILS Please register your attendance via the “Register Now” links below. Check in will be open from 7:30am on site. Introducing Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch...

People often ask me what it is like to work at Microsoft. Many are often as surprised as I was to find out how much they supported my Work/Life balance needs, especially ensuring that I get the time I need with my son. This was one of my greatest concerns...

After much positive feedback from the local CRM community, and a great response to our Survey to understand what you all want from your CRM usergroup – I am very excited that the Sydney CRM usergroup will be kicking off once again!! :) The group will...

If you are migrating your MySQL database to SQL Server any time soon, you will be very happy to hear that The Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) family now includes a CTP 1.0 for MySQL which has just been released. Versions are included for...

Well, turns out if you have any form of life – it’s really hard!! Today’s lesson was that balancing trying to build a startup & keep your existing life going at the same time provides some challenges! My “real life” got in the way of my ambitions...

I am so excited that Zap Technology , one of our local Brisbane Based ISV’s that I have been working with recently, have been awarded the 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Award for ISV/Solutions, Innovation for our Business Analytics for Microsoft...

  View online version     Bigger, better – and back again! Microsoft's business building roadshows are back for 2011 – and we're coming to your State capital this March. So clear your calendar for the Partner Connect Roadshow. You'll get...

This weekend we are holing the Sydney WebCamp at Sydney Uni – this post is a reminder of the details for all attendees! The presenters for the event are Damian Edwards (Web Guy from Microsoft Corp) http://damianedwards.wordpress.com/ who is being joined...

Just a quick thing I learnt this evening that I thought I would share: If you are writing custom Workflow assemblies for Dynamics CRM, you can use the handy Plugin registration tool (found here or as is now also located in the Tools shipped with the SDK...

The Dynamics team have been busy bees lately! CRM 4.0 BizTalk Adapter Now Available The long awaited revision of the Biztalk adapter that was available for CRM 3.0 has now been released. It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit deployments, form-based authentication...

Today is the Ada Lovelace International Day of blogging. It aims to highlight the often unsung work of the many amazing women working in IT. You can find more information about the concept here: http://findingada.com/ I have posted before about the many...

I grew up watching Magnum PI, it was inevitable as it was my dad’s favourite show! So when I saw this email going around about Cannon PI – I was intrigued. Watching the you Tube video – I was in hysterics so thought I would share it with you all for some...

If your New Years Resolution is to upgrade your skills in Dynamics or even to start learning more about the Dynamics suite – then the good news is that there are a stack of training sessions lined up to help! Course Title Date Location More Info Microsoft...

Just a quick note that with the latest release of Codeplex, the address to download the CRM accelerators has changed . You can now download there from http://crmaccelerators.codeplex.com/