One thing I often notice when reviewing deployments of Microsoft CRM is that the tables used to store records regarding workflow and async processes can get very large; specifically the AsyncOperationBase and WorkflowLogBase tables. By default, the records...

We're proud to announce that Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Update Rollup 1 released Thursday April 7th, 2011! On April 8th 2011, Greg Nichols from the Microsoft Premier Field Engineering team will provide information and answer questions about the recent...

A frequently asked question concerns the support policy regarding running Microsoft Dynamics CRM on various virtualization solutions - whether they're Microsoft virtualization solutions (i.e. Hyper-V) or third-party solutions such as VMware. A comprehensive...

There's a great deal of information that can be found about installing and upgrading to the CRM 2011 Outlook client within the CRM 2011 Implementation Guide. During the first couple months of CRM 2011 being available, I've come across some very valuable...

We're proud to announce that Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 16 released Thursday March 10th, 2011! On March 11th 2011, Greg Nichols from the Microsoft Premier Field Engineering team provided information and answered questions about the...

As many of you may know, when writing custom reports for CRM 4.0 you are required to use the filtered views. The upside is filteredViews make security a snap for reporting against CRM data, and they offer a consistent dataset between the user will see...

This topic recently came up with a customer: as with CRM 4.0, CRM 2011 provides functionality to install separate roles or role groups to different servers in a deployment, and these roles are made up of different server functionality, components, and...