July, 2007

Guy Riddle , a long time CRM MVP tackles another hard point for some of his customers and shares his insight with us. On the face of it the CRM Appointment is fairly straightforward, even though there are a number of key attributes to consider, such as...

Ayaz Ahmad is a CRM MVP, developer, and blogger. We welcome him to the growing ranks of MVPs who have shared their insights on the CRM Team blog. After the collapse of my test (QA) server, I have been searching for various developments environment options...

The platform is the heart of the Microsoft CRM system. When you use the Microsoft CRM Server Programming Guide, you are building on top of this system. The Microsoft CRM platform supports smaller deployments and can scale for application service provider...

Have you ever wondered which entity attributes can be set when creating or updating a record? There are a few places you can find this information: The Metadata Browser This is a live view of the metadata for your organization. It can be found here: http...

Overview: At Microsoft, it almost feels like we are installing a new CRM deployment every week. On the one hand, it is exciting to see that most deployments use the email router. On the other hand, one needs to worry about scalability and reliability...

Writing a report for Microsoft CRM can seem a bit daunting at first if you’re not familiar with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. The reports that are available in Microsoft Dynamics CRM out-of-the-box are fairly complex creatures. Almost all of...

Have you been keeping up with the many tips and tricks that our users have submitted? Here are just a sample of some of the tips our customers have been submitting to the CRM Tricks and Tips site: Note: These are use at your own risk suggestions...

MVP Michael Höhne is our guest blogger this week. A few weeks ago Mitch Milam showed how to use the EntityMetadata class of the metadata service to get the attribute names of the primary key and primary field. Even though it was a very basic example...

Microsoft CRM team announces Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2007 in Denver this week. "The latest version of Microsoft's Dynamics CRM software, code-named "Titan," can run on a company's own computer servers, on servers...

Often new Microsoft Dynamics CRM customers and partners ask, “Can we extend this product's functionality?” Usually this is quickly followed by the question, “How can we do it?” This post is intended to provide brief answers to these questions. And of...