Initiated by the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Engineering for Enterprise Team a new document has been released, which shows the different techniques you can use to further improve the performance of Microsoft Dynamics CRM by using SQL Server 2008. In summary...

Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM is now available: KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959419 Download center page: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aa671769-61e9-45c4-919f-c88199aa4241

For quite a while now we have heard Microsoft talk about the next shift in the software industry and we have called it our Software + Services (S+S) strategy, also known simply as cloud computing. And today, chief software architect Ray Ozzie announced...

I recently had to transfer several customizations to a different CRM installation. While Microsoft Dynamics CRM offers an export and import functionality, in this case I just wanted to select specific client side customizations. However, manually grabbing...

Thanks to Michael Rich the new VPC Image is now available as a download. In addition there is a great demonstration tool, which helps you to prepare your demo environment and demo data. The VPC image is a one computer setup including Microsoft CRM 4.0...

In case you haven't noticed: I just stumbled upon the product keys on TechNet. It looks like they are now available.

Via E-Mail from Amy : The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 SDK download package has been updated. Version 4.0.1 includes several important changes: The Plug-in walkthrough in the CHM has been updated to match the readme that is included in the SDK...

Great posting from Jonas about an update regarding the CRM 4.0 plug-in registration tool. Continue reading: http://blogs.msdn.com/jonasd/archive/2008/01/12/access-denied-when-using-pluginregistration-tool.aspx Plug-in development and registration is...

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team just announced that ALL of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 WAVE 1 Languages (English, German, Spanish, French and Dutch) are now released and available for download! This includes both the language version plus the language...

Direct link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=nl&FamilyID=50761e58-6040-4cf3-853a-f5ab535f7194

Bill Patterson just announced Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live: http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2008/01/09/choice-begins-today.aspx

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team today announced that the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 English , German and Spanish language packs are now available for download .

Via Philip . Mike Snyder and Jim Steger are finishing their new book about Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 titled Working with Microsoft Dynamics(tm) Crm 4.0, Second Edition (Pro - Developer) You can pre-order a copy of the book on amazon.com

How frustrating, he is always faster: http://blogs.msdn.com/mscrmfreak/archive/2008/01/07/usted-habla-espa-ol-and-crm.aspx Direct link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=es&FamilyID=99cb3a7a-eba9-4de9-b0f1-2ebf11c3d756

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team just announced that the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 German language pack is now available for download. Existing Customer Download http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=99CB3A7A-EBA9-4DE9-B0F1-2EBF11C3D756&displaylang...

Via blogs.msdn.com/crm: Download the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Trial Versions in either 32 or 64-bit! Download the Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook (For On-Premise and Hosted Editions) 32 bit! Download the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Data Migration...

Congratulations to the whole Microsoft Dynamics CRM development team! Craig Unger ( GM Microsoft Dynamics CRM R&D ) and Brad Wilson ( GM for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Business ) just send out the internal note about the sign off and the release of Microsoft...

Totally off topic: I just noticed a new update in the Windows Vista Ultimate Extras section and it seems to be a new content pack for Windows DreamScene , but I am not really sure. Long Zheng , could you please make an official statement? :-)

Some of you asked me how to use the Wallpaper tool . Unfortunately I did not had much time to write a documentation or simple help file, because I wrote it just as a personal learning experience. Instead of it I created a small Silverlight video, which...

I finished reading a book about Windows Presentation Foundation , which helps me a lot to understand the new concepts of Windows programming. And now I created my first WPF program and you could be the first to try it out :-) This program "Wallpaper...

Not related to Microsoft CRM, but nevertheless interesting: Have you seen the new Microsoft Live Labs Preview " Listas "? It is a cool Windows Live Service for the creation, management and sharing of notes, lists, and images. Just try it out and extend...

If you haven't read about the Vista - Microsoft Dynamics CRM Search Gadget yet, please read this first: http://blogs.msdn.com/joris_kalz/pages/Vista-Microsoft-CRM-Search-Gadget.aspx Thanks to TourismVI, there is now a solution regarding the empty value...

Dear CRM-Friends! In few months we will have an important conference for all our customers, partners and Microsoft employees about Microsoft Dynamics based in the EMEA-region. This will be a great chance for you to be the first to know about the next...

It seems to be like a radical new way of computing. "Surface computing is a major advancement that moves beyond the traditional user interface to a more natural way of interacting with digital content. Microsoft Surface, Microsoft’s first commercially...

We just released the localized version of the list web part for Microsoft Dynamics CRM to support Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS 2007). The great think about is that you can use Sharepoint to create a dashboard to display essential Microsoft...