The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Sustained Engineering (SE) team released Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 18 on Thursday, June 30, 2011. The links below will take you to the necessary information about Update Rollup 18. Microsoft Download Center: http...

I was thinking of some Summer learning opportunities that might interest some of my developer friends. You can try Windows Azure at no cost using the CODE webcastpass and deploy your first app in as little as 30 minutes . So here are some ideas, in no...

The Dynamics CRM User Group (CRMUG®) provides users a wealth of opportunities to learn, network, and share expertise about Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Powered by Dynamic Communities, Inc., CRMUG is an independent community and the only one recognized by Microsoft...

Customer Portal and Partner Relationship Management Portal solutions are the graduated replacements of the portal Accelerators for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. They provide businesses the ability to deliver portal capabilities to their customers and partners...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 localizes in 42 languages. On any base language org, one can install language specific MUI packs and have the UI reflect in the language of the user’s choice. When considering global organizations that use MUI packs, the currency...

I am pleased to let you know that the following Managed IT articles are now available via TechNet and MSDN.  As a result, these and future documents will now be available to our audience via MS Downloads, TechNet, and MSDN.  In addition, all...

Our guest blogger today is Gonzalo Ruiz who is a CRM consultant for Avanade Canada . This post is inspired by a popular article by my ex coworker Humberto Lezama G . regarding when to use plugins or workflows for implementing custom logic in Microsoft...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 has got exciting new features that help you create custom charts in a few clicks while you are accessing your records. You then see the custom chart as you view your records. The out of the box entity “phone call”...

When you update records using Silverlight and the REST Endpoint for Web resources, unless you have worked around this issue you are updating every field even if the data hasn’t changed. This can lead to the following problems: Potential for data loss...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 introduces the capability to create recurring appointment in CRM and its bi-directional synchronization support with Outlook. In this blog I am going to discuss about one of the enhanced capabilities introduced by CRM which...

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Product Management team is happy to announce the availability of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Demonstration Kit. This Kit was optimized to facilitate a stand-alone Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online environment. Scenarios...

If you need info about registering plug-ins in for CRM 2011, read my latest article on  Using the Plug-in Registration Tool for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 . This article is written for developers interested in registering custom plug-ins or custom...

There’s a CRM training course out now and you can read about it here: Developer Training Course for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 ! The training course helps .NET developers learn various development features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and Microsoft...

Salesforce.com spends a lot of time bashing Microsoft. Their CEO, Marc Benioff, can’t stop talking about us, whether in customer events or on their financial analyst calls. Their sales force tries desperately to spread FUD (fear, uncertainty, and...

Today’s guest blogger is MVP Julie Yack . Julie is one of the founding partners of Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc. and currently serves as the company’s Chief Operations Officer. This list is a revised version of the bit I did with Anne Stanton...

When you’ve been reading Microsoft Dynamics CRM product documentation—the Help, articles, the SDK—you might have noticed there’s a feature at the bottom of each for sending us feedback or questions. The e-mails you send are sent directly to the writers...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM SDK Version 5.0.4 is now live on MSDN downloads and MSDN library . This update includes the following: Updated assemblies to match Update Rollup 2. For Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, updates are installed for you. For other deployment...

I wanted to share that I just published a brand new white paper entitled “Microsoft Dynamics CRM Reference Architecture” that I just finished authoring. It is available on the Microsoft Downloads site at the following URL: http://download.microsoft.com...

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Sustained Engineering (SE) team released Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Update Rollup 2 on Thursday, June 2, 2011. The links below will take you to the necessary information about Update Rollup 2. If a link does not work, please...

Today’s guest blogger is MVP Joel Lindstrom , a Solutions Consultant at Customer Effective . One of the items frequently requested, especially in large deployments of Microsoft Dynamics CRM , has been the ability to control Outlook client synchronization...

Have you ever wanted to edit multiple Microsoft Dynamics CRM records from within Microsoft Excel , without having to open each record’s individual form? With this new Dynamics CRM 2011 feature, it is possible to update Dynamics CRM records using Microsoft...