July, 2006

I've a short blog for you to consider today. The winner of the first annual CRM Sandbox coding contest have been announced in my blog and on the Sandbox site . This was an interesting experiment to see if we could get the CRM community interested in submitting...

Hello everyone, This is my first blog posting on this site, but many of you have probably been following my other blogs: Invoke Systems (Current), MSN , and MSDN ). The short version of the story is that I was a lead application developer on a .COM...

A bunch of us headed off to World-wide Partner Conference a week or two ago. Obviously, it was a very exciting conference for us, as we made a big announcement or two (the biggest enabling us to talk about what we've been working on for a while now)....

In my roles as a Microsoft CRM Pre-Sales Technology Specialist in our Enterprise team here in the UK, I am constantly trying to find partner solutions which meet customers' business requirements. A couple of weeks ago I met some folk from K3 Business...

One of the greatest challenges for Small Businesses is to maintain their IT infrastructure on a budget. In many cases, having an experienced IT person on staff is simply too expensive. Our friends on the Small Business Server team built a “Health Monitor...

Sometimes we work hard on a feature, struggle to get it into the product, test it in all possible permutations, ship it...and then forget to tell anyone about it. We seem to have done this with Bulk Edit. For some entity types (Leads, Opportunities...

Normally customization of CRM is conducted by two Security Roles: the System Administrator and System Customizer. Typically these Security Roles have privileges to perform all customization tasks. CRM allows for customizations to safely take place in...

I have heard from few customers and partners asking if CRM supports Blade type servers, where you can install everything you need on a single blade server and then just plug it in and start using it. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 “Service Provider...

Whenever you first start using a new product, it takes some time to get it. As a new member of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 team, I’m learning our product the same way you may be doing – playing around in the software, making mistakes, asking for help...

In my last post , I noted the lack of perfmon counters in the CRM product. I’m happy to tell you that we are working to fix that situation in future releases of CRM. As I continue to work with CRM, I’ve starting setting my sights on Deployment Manager...