June, 2007

Deploying Microsoft CRM successfully is only half the battle. What can you do once the system is live to ensure a high level of up time? In this article one of our MVP’s, John O’Donnell from Crowe Chizek talks about the new Microsoft CRM 3.0 MOM 2005...

I try to spend a decent amount of time on the Microsoft CRM newsgroups, ensuring questions customers have about the feature areas I work on are answered well. While reviewing the posts, I definitely see ones that are better than others. I thought I would...

Today I'm introducing a new CRM resource for those of you interested in getting your company involved with the all new Dynamics CRM Users Group (CRMUG). Here is an introduction from the CRMUG team: CRMUG is an association of companies sharing the common...

Microsoft CRM Sustained Engineering plans to release Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Update Rollup 2 Monday, June 25th. Update Rollup 2 is a well tested, cumulative set of updates for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server 3.0 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM client for...

Have you ever seen that MSCRM SWS calls are being slow in some environments than others while using the same kind of hardware configuration? As a consequence, you may have seen migration applications where you are using SDK to create records, taking much...

A corporate blog is an interesting beast. One has to refrain from giving ‘irresponsible advice’ and yet one has also ‘speak in a human voice’. Reflecting back on our own team blog we have certainly made a few mistakes along the way. We accidently published...

As many of you may be aware, there is a lot of buzz around Microsoft Silverlight. For those that are unfamiliar with it I invite you to check its web site and play with it, it is really powerful. http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ . The potential...

Introducing CRM MVP Mitch Milam, one of our long time partners, and a very interesting writer too. Occasionally, while creating solutions that need to access CRM data, I have found a need to know either the PrimaryField or the PrimaryKey of an Entity...

Microsoft Provides MapPoint Web Service to enrich application with mapping functionality. It allows you to integrate maps, driving directions, order tracking and proximity searches into a wide range of solutions. For those of you who want to start...

“We are facing a big trouble with a Batch process that we developed using SDK… The SDK “Create” and “Update” methods are causing a delay in the process, and we are facing a very slow process with throughput of just 15 records per second...” I have...