One of my favorite bloggers, Ben Vollmer is back at it again. This is a good thing for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM community. Add his blog to your RSS at http://businessnone.com/ . How often have you pulled open a CRM Record and wanted to VERY quickly...

Guest blogger and CRM MVP Donna Edwards shares a tip for both developers and users. Have you visited the Microsoft Dynamics CRM site on MSDN lately?  If not, then you might be pleasantly surprised by all the content that is available.  The site...

Today guest blogger and CRM MVP Frank lee shares his insight with us based on advising his customers and partners. He blogs at http://www.workopia.com/Links.htm . I would like to talk about an important Microsoft Dynamics CRM design setting: Cascade Relationship...

Convergence 2010 kicked off showcasing new Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM technologies to more than 8,500 attendees. As I listened to the keynotes I felt the message “Today, Tomorrow, TOGETHER” was coming across loud and clear. So when Umran Hasan asked...

Microsoft Connect is a connection point between you and Microsoft, and ultimately the larger community. Your suggestions enable us to make a better product. You can participate in Microsoft Connect in several ways, such as downloading the latest software...

We got this from a Microsoft Dynamics CRM user the other day: 1. Is it possible to get long date formatting instead of short date on DateTime values on the crm form (and views), i.e. I am looking to display ‘‘Monday 2010-03-29‘‘ instead of just ‘‘2010...

A contest for solutions built with Microsoft Dynamics® CRM and its flexible application development framework, xRM . Submit your solution to a vote of our online community. Win enough votes, and your solution will be showcased on the Microsoft Dynamics...

CRM MVP Larry Lentz blogs about something he has been working on for a while now. Kudos Larry. The Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, & Arkansas (TOLA) Regional Chapter of the CRM User Group ( www.CRMUG.com) held its inaugural meeting on Thursday, April...

“Evaluation based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.” REDMOND, Wash. — April 15, 2010 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Microsoft Dynamics CRM has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the 2010 Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer...

In Microsoft Dynamics CRM the behaviors assigned within entity relationships describe what actions should cascade down to related records. For example, if you re-assign a contact record, what should happen to any opportunities where that contact represents...

In the last two months we’ve had the opportunity to work with two pre-release Dell PowerEdge R910 servers equipped with Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500-series – more commonly referred to as Nehalem-EX processors. The results were impressive: With this...

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Sustained Engineering (SE) team released Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 10 on Thursday, April 8, 2010. The links below will take you to the necessary information about Update Rollup 10: Microsoft Download Center: http...

We’re pleased to announce that the Dynamics CRM 4.0 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 is available for download on Microsoft Download Center. This management pack is compatible with System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 and...

Today our guest blogger is CRM MVP Joel Lindstrom, a Solutions Consultant for CustomerEffective . After implementing Mobile Express in our Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 environment, we found that some users with Blackberry smartphones could not open the...

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM team has made a Nonprofit Solution for CRM Online available today. The functionality included in the Solution will allow a Nonprofit/NGO to get up and running with a cloud based solution in a few minutes. The price for this...

Guest blogger and CRM MVP Donna Edwards talks about her experience using Microsoft Dynamics CRM with the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta . I recently downloaded Office 2010 Beta and installed it on my CRM Test server. My CRM test environment includes the following...

Are you following Convergence 2010 on Facebook yet.  :O) The CRM team and I will be there. Hope to see y’all there. Cheers, JaAG

Today CRM MVP Andriy Butenko talks about a solution he created using the plug-in technology. Andriy blogs regularly here . When you open Microsoft Dynamics CRM and select a view that contains more records than can be shown on one page, you don’t know...

Microsoft has asked various communities for input on a new site they have recently launched.  It is the Microsoft Partner Network Community   site and it was launched by the Microsoft Worldwide Partner team a few months ago. I wanted to go over...