As part of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, the CRM Sustained Engineering (SE) team is releasing updates via Microsoft Update. Over the next few months the SE team will release updates to test the Microsoft Update functionality and deliver critical fixes...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Beta is here! That means it’s time to start telling the story behind all of the great new features. This week we will focus on how Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 helps organizations work more intelligently by helping create and...

Seven years ago we launched Microsoft CRM 1.2 to a small but enthusiastic audience. CRM 1.2 was a market breakthrough for us but it was only after a healthy independent software vendor community came to fill critical feature gaps. One of the first people...

Today’s guest blogger is CRM MVP George Doubinski who offers this interesting post. It's been a while since I've posted anything juicy. But today's idea is too good not to share it. Let's have a look at a typical function in a typical workflow...

If you were happy to see the multi-language experience introduced by CRM 4.0, with as many as 41 language packs available, you are going to LOVE this feature. This not-so-obvious feature, now available as part of the beta release of Microsoft Dynamics...

A great way for you to be successful, and to ultimately help drive your company’s growth, is to attend CRMUG Summit 2010 - the premier annual conference for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Customers, CRM User Group Partners and key Microsoft Dynamics CRM team...

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Sustained Engineering (SE) team released Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 13 on Thursday, September 23, 2010. The links below will take you to the necessary information about Update Rollup 13. Microsoft Download Center...

Today’s guest blogger is CRM MVP Julie Yack points to some upcoming training opportunities. Once we had the Beta release of Dynamics CRM 2011 xRMVirtual set up, we sent out a survey for topic requests.  The results are in and we will do our best...

I felt compelled to write a few words about a resource that often gets overlooked in lieu of the valuable medium that it truly is. Although there is a plethora of CRM information sources out there, such as TechNet, MSDN, Resource Center , Microsoft Downloads...

We’ve been playing around with YouTube as a destination for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Videos for a couple of months. The site now has five videos that you might find interesting at http://www.youtube.com/user/MSdynamCRM . Feel free to subscribe or friend...

Developers will find that there are large numbers of enhancements in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 beta aimed squarely at making development easier and giving our developers the latest Microsoft stack, from .NET to SQL Server. Using the SDK one can...

Guest blogger MVP Regional Director David Yack shares with us some of his insights after playing with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 beta bits. Last week Microsoft released a beta version of Dynamics CRM 2011. CRM 2011 has been in private preview mode...

Yes! The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 beta was just released and with one of the hallmark features of our extensibility story: “Solutions Management.” Remember how extensible previous versions of CRM were? Well, we took that to a whole new...

CRM workflows can be used to do simple calculations. I have come across many users who are not aware of this feature and thought it would be a good topic for a blog. In this example, the workflow is doing a simple calculation. Before you build this...

With the recently announced Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 beta (sign-up at www.crm2011beta.com ) there naturally comes questions about the upgrade paths from one version to another. Microsoft invests a significant amount of time and effort to ensure that...

I’m monitoring the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Beta forum on Microsoft Forums and there is a lot of great activity. If I were just about to install the Beta I’d start by scanning this site to see what other people are saying about this install. Here is...

Today, the Microsoft Dynamics CRM team has reached a key milestone as it releases the beta of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 , for both cloud-based and on-premises deployments. Available for download and testing in eight languages (English, French, German...

Guest blogger and CRM MVP Donna Edwards talks about a power-user toolset that help you become a proficient report writer. I frequently come across posts in the Microsoft Dynamics Community Forums from people who have various questions regarding building...

Guest blogger and Microsoft Partner Webfortis provides the post today. Having seen the demo of this, all I can say is WOW! Parrot (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM is known as Social CRM. IT organizations evaluate CRM...

Today's guest blogger 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 . We recently released a very cool two way integration between...

Guest blogger and CRM MVP Julie Yack invites you stump the experts in this presentation. Join Senior Technical Product Manager Eric Boocock for a dive into Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 before the Beta. Learn about new features and opportunities for developers...