January, 2009

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. With this feature, located at the end...

List Web Part for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 supports Internet Facing Deployment (IFD) and On Premise configuration for Dynamics CRM and SharePoint. This article briefly describes the steps necessary for configuring List Web Part determined by the deployment...

CRM MVP Mitch Milam returns as our guest blogger today. You can read more from Mitch at his blog . The Settings area of CRM 4.0, where many administrators and customizers spend much of their time, can be customized to allow areas to be grouped by functionality...

Not so long ago I had the UNIQUE opportunity of presenting Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online to a large audience where the presentation tool could not facilitate a live demo.  In order to conduct this demo I had to create a PowerPoint presentation containing...

One of the well-known features offered in Microsoft Dynamics CRM v4 is export data to Excel as a dynamic worksheet, a dynamic pivot table, or even to a static worksheet. Users can then refresh these dynamic Excel sheets alone to get the most current data...

The Microsoft CRM Sustained Engineering (SE) team has now completed the transition to a frequent Update Rollup servicing model for Microsoft CRM 4.0. Starting with the release of Update Rollup 2 on January 15 th , the CRM SE team will release most of...

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM metadata contains the description of system and custom entities, attributes and the relationship between entities for an organization. The MetadataService Web service provides the messages that you can use to read or write the...

Why do I not see any linked entity columns data in either advanced find or by customizing system views for Activities (Emails/Appointments etc…) (after adding related entity columns)? Problem: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0's FetchXML does not retrieve...

Note: This post has been rewritten with many of the changes you recommended in the comments below. You can find the new announcement here . The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Sustained Engineering team released Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 2 on...

List Web Part supports three different types of connections that you can use to build various dashboards on a SharePoint portal. They are: Field to field connections Row to row connections Table to table connections Let us walk through each of them to...