Today we welcome our guest blogger CRM MVP Darren Liu from the Crowe Horwath company. Have you ever been asked by someone to get a list of contacts having birthdays during a certain time period from CRM? If so what have you done to perform this task?...

We recently kicked off a worldwide tour events to help ISVs understand the potential of Dynamics CRM as a Line-of-Business Application platform. We know that differentiating your line-of-business applications from those of your competitors has never been...

Problem: V4: Report snapshots are never generated when scheduling a Report in CRM v4.0 Cause: When the report snapshot is being generated, CRM Data Connector for SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS) attempts to verify the identity of the calling user...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Language Packs contain translated text, such as labels, error messages, and Help. By installing a Language Pack on the server that is running Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and then enabling the language in the Microsoft Dynamics...

Good day. The MS CRM E 2 team is pleased to announce the release of the white paper, SAMPLE: Performance and Scalability Assessment of Customer Implementation , which is available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID...

DbPopulator is a tool used by MSCRM performance team to populate different types of data (qualitatively and quantitatively) in the MSCRM test boxes for performance testing. This tool is available as part of CRM Performace Toolkit (download available in...

The old school method of demonstrating mobile software, using a camera suspended over a device, is expensive and unwieldy. Fortunately it is no longer necessary. There are a few ways to project a mobile Microsoft Dynamics CRM application on to big screen...

Today's guest star is CRM MVP Mike Snyder of Sonoma Partners . He is also the co-author of the books, Working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and Programming Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 . One of the GREAT new features in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is the...

Windows Live ID is the authentication tool that is part of the Windows Live Service. With it you get free email, blog page, photo galleries, document storage, and more. Social networking tools such as Groups are also available. Groups allow you to invite...

We work all the time and everywhere. Getting information, giving information, communicating and keeping up. It is only natural that an application designed for letting businesses connect with their customers should be capable of working anywhere and anytime...

Convergence , the semi-annual Microsoft Dynamics customer conference, is coming to New Orleans in under a month.  With tightening travel costs and a eye towards maximizing the value of your time, I wanted to share with you a perspective of how the...

Good news for ISVs, partners and anyone building applications on top of the CRM platform. I’m really happy to let you know that we just released the source code of 2 very useful tools. You can find all the details and download the tools in this...

On 2/8/2008, the CRM Sustained Engineering team released a new version of the Update Rollup 2 packages. The new version of Update Rollup 2 addresses some of the issues that have been noted in the comments for this blog entry . Including: Strings in the...

Some of my customers over the years have used a Round Robin method of assigning leads. So the first lead that comes in goes to Sales Rep A, second lead goes to Sales Rep B, etc. It works well with smaller sales teams that occupy the same geographic territory...

The Microsoft MVP Award recognizes exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who voluntarily share their high quality, real world expertise with others. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts representing technology's...

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Accelerators have been rolling out over the last couple of months and one of the questions we’ve been working on in the CRM Online TS team is, how can we make these accelerators work for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online...

The MS CRM Engineering and Excellence team is pleased to announce the release of the white paper Improving Microsoft Dynamics CRM Performance and Securing Data with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 , which is available for download at: http://www.microsoft.com...

If you've visited the Dynamics Forums lately you will be familiar with this new look and URL . The three CRM Forums; CRM, CRM Deployment, and CRM Development are still the same in name but there is a lot of new functionality and the posts should show...

Do you want to be informed when there are new fixes and product updates for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0? You can subscribe to receive alerts straight to your inbox about newly published hot fixes and updates (such as the recently released Update Rollup...

Creating an XmlSerializer has a well-known performance cost since .net will generate a temporary helper assembly which requires a compiler call. Additionally, the assembly cannot be unloaded without unloading the hosting application domain causing high...