March, 2009

Our guest blogger is CRM MVP Jim Wang joining us from Reading England. Jim blogs regularly at Microsoft Dynamics CRM – Jim Wang’s technical blog [MVP] . CRM 4.0 doesn't have many out-of-box user controls, such as multi-select picklists. The standard...

Power users and vendors are always excited about SDKs to their favorite applications. The ability to build solutions on top of powerful interfaces can go a long way towards extending the capabilities of a product. CRM’s SDK is proof of that; but when...

Today we welcome our guest blogger and CRM MVP Ayaz Ahmad. Ayaz blogs at Ayaz Ahmad [MVP MIcrosoft CRM, MBSS] . Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 provides a Duplicate Detection feature to protect the quality of your data. Duplicate Detection rules can be...

Guest blogger and CRM MVP Ross Lotharius regales us with his first look observations about IE 8. Ross Lotharius is an Associate Partner and Director of Software Development for the CRM Practice of Ascentium . Yesterday at MIX 09, Microsoft announced the...

When the CRM Asynchronous Processing Service gets an error, there are three possible actions it will take depending on the type of error: Fail: Job cannot be resumed. Retry: Job will be paused and retried after a period of time. Suspend: Job will be suspended...

Today’s guest blogger is CRM MVP Joel Lindstrom and is taken from his CustomerEffective blog post. Thanks for your insights Joel. Today, Microsoft officially released Internet Explorer 8.   There are many reasons to like IE8, including improved standards...

Have you ever had this window pop up on you, and wondered what’s going on? Whenever you see this window, it means we’ve encountered some sort of unexpected error. This is your chance to help us improve the quality of our product! By clicking the button...

Its official – at Convergence last week, we launched the third wave of CRM Online: the March 2009 Service Update, known under development as “R3”. Besides the 99.9% SLA and Internet Lead Capture work, we invested heavily in Cloud Integration Services...

Imagine a development system that could give you the ability to rapidly build line of business solutions, perhaps saving up to 70 percent of your development time. Would that be of interest to you? Imagine the same system already coming pre-built with...

This year’s hot topic at Convergence now has its own virtual user group.  XRM Virtual User Group is now accepting members on our website www.xrmvirtual.com .  We are a group of over 100 XRM developers helping to build our community of professionals...