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...

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The Microsoft Dynamics CRM – The Danish blog has run a three part series titled the Power of Choice. Have you heard the concept before? 'The Power of Choice' - what is that? In this three part blog post I will give you my angle on the great opportunity...

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Sustained Engineering team released Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 3 on Thursday, March 12, 2009. Below are the links to the release and related information about the Rollup. Please see the Knowledge Base (KB) article...

Are you trying to improve the memory usage of your .net application? I’ve spent some time recently trying to improve memory usage of our .net code. In this blog, I would like to share techniques for debugging memory issues as well as useful coding practices...

  This month's guest blogger and CRM MVP Larry Lentz shares with us his experience at this year’s MVP Global Summit in Seattle. Each year, or so, Microsoft hosts a gathering of the MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) from around the world. We meet...

We have made a couple of enhancements to the aggregate query feature of Fetch XML. These updates have shipped for version 4.0 as part of UR2 and for version 3.0 as documented in KB Article 960079 . So far we only supported the count aggregate function...

We’ve just published version 4.0.8 of the CRM SDK! The online content is here and the download is here . Here’s what you’ll find in this release: New Topics and Samples for Authentication with CRM Online Read three new topics about using Windows Live...

CRM Pre-Filtering is a very useful option that can be enabled on CRM reports to make them context sensitive and to allow the report to be filtered using the Advanced Find functionality.  Although this is a great feature, it is often an area that...

We’ve added two book excerpts to both the MSDN library and the Resource Center. Thank you to our MVP’s Jim Steger , Mike Snyder and David Yack for providing these chapters! The articles are the same whether you view them from MSDN or from the Resource...

Whether you’re interested in an online or on-premise solutions, Microsoft Dynamics CRM has you covered. Check out the most popular content and community areas available to help you create the perfect experience for your business. Microsoft Dynamics...

The current economic downturn is putting many entrepreneurs under increasing pressure, making it critical to find new resources and ways to reduce costs and inefficiencies. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Incubation Week is designed to offer following assistance...

I wanted to share the recording link from the ' Choosing the Right Customer Relationship Management ' web cast with you. Determining the right customer relationship management (CRM) solution out of those available today can be daunting. It is critical...