October, 2009

I’m pleased to announce that the fifth update to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Implementation Guide (4.5.0) is now available! In our commitment to provide continuous publishing to our customers and partners, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Implementation...

Today we are highlighting another of John O’Donnell’s video logs. You might remember his very popular video from last year called Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 : Security with John O'Donnell . During the week of September 14th the Dynamic Communities team...

Today’s guest blog is submitted by CRM MVP Jim Steger of Sonoma Partners . We’ve all had it happen; someone runs a very resource intensive report during the day which slows down the performance of CRM for all the users. This now can happen more frequently...

Check out the new look of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Developer Center . There is new information on just about every tab, pointers to accelerators, whitepapers, and other downloads. Also, take a few minutes to read the latest technical article: Plug-ins...

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online November 2009 Service Update will change how we provision unique names. If ISV code makes a certain incorrect assumption about how to talk to CRM Online organizations, it will break for some orgs. Also, customers setting...

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Sustained Engineering team will release Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 7 on Thursday, October 22, 2009. Once the release is available the links below will take you to the necessary information about Update Rollup...

CRM MVP Aaron Elder contributes this article at TechNet: I’m back for a second article on Microsoft Dynamics CRM (see the first article, " Deploying Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 "), with a focus on something I am passionate about—that is, troubleshooting...

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM team really is heads down working on the product, planning, researching, and testing. But we find time to take a look at your suggestions sent using Connect for Microsoft Dynamics . Once you have created an account, you can...

We just published another plug-in development article in the Getting Started with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 SDK article series. Here’s a summary: A plug-in is custom computer code that is compiled and registered with Microsoft Dynamics CRM to change...

Taken from the CRM MVP alias with the quoted MVP’s permissions: Larry: Today at lunch I was asked by a friend what CRM was. I was suddenly at a loss of words. How do you describe a product like Microsoft Dynamics CRM in a 30 second elevator speech to...