Ran across a great blog. I only have one MAJOR beef. Almost everything I have read on the thing is WAY unsupported. I personally have never done any unsupported customizations for clients, but have seen them done. :-) (For those of you who know me, know...

I make it a habit to look at other CRM Blogs. I just finished reading Simon's post on hiding tabs. I don't like the way he did it, as it doesn't take into account what happens if a value changes while the user is editing the form, so look for a snippet...

This is the way CRM will be in the future... :-) How about a Microsoft CRM Vertical package for Law Offices? http://www.clientprofiles.com/NewsDetail.asp?ID=34 Is the link to one. :-) Having been there before, that market is special and I am glad somebody...

c360 sends out a regular customer newsletter with some nice little tidbits in it. The last one contained their roadmap for Version 3.0. Enjoy! http://sdm3.rm04.net/servlet/MailView?ms=NDIyMTUxS0&r=MTgzMjM2OTE2NQS2&j=ODI2NTc2NwS2&mt=1

This is a great article on the differences and how Visual Studio now has some stuff in it that will help with this... Not that is 100% applies to software deployment, such as in the case of CRM. But MSF is sometimes used as a methodology, but it is really...

This isn't offical and I haven't gone to Product Management to see if it is true or not, but.... Here is a decent article on Microsoft CRM 3.0 Mobile... http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=5641

This is Part Two of this post. Thanks to Jon Goodwin of ePartners for this link... The last sentence made me laugh... (REALLY Hard) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/22/salesforce_outage/ The best article I’ve seen on the salesforce.com outage...

This is a white paper you can share with prospects. A great little three pager. :-) This is NOT product specific, but rather talks about CRM in general. This three-page report by Nucleus Research looks at how the adoption of a customer relationship...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a8edfc7b-01d8-4500-845b-01370d4eed21&DisplayLang=en Is the final location. You can download the VPC for Demo's only and it is timebombed to expire at some point in the near future. Happy Downloading...

Am I going to regret this post? Probably... This will probably be the one that gets me fired. :-) Why is life so great to me some days? So now, IF you had a client that allowed you to go offline, you could keep working... But sync'ing with Salesforce...

One of my things to play with as things quiet down at the office in between the 25th and 1st, would be Business Scorecard Manager. I think it is a natural fit between CRM and BSM. So for those of you interested in BSM and CRM, here are some BSM Resources...

Flash Demos are a great way to should prospects and customers Microsoft CRM 3.0 in a self running enviroment. While I always prefer to do a customized in person demo, these are a great intoduction to Microsoft CRM. Karen Smith just published these to...

I have been asked for the URL for the launch videos from a bunch of partners that want to host them on their websites.... Since I am not sure if everybody has a streaming media servers, I decided to make it easy on y'all. Here are the launch videos in...

There is a ton of data on how to and what it will take... Simon has posted the link to a great webinar that tells you about the "rest" of the Microsoft stack and how hosting works with it. Are you planning on hosting? If so, let me know so we can start...

So in the past couple of weeks, I have been to several events with local partners. IF YOU AREN'T DOING EVENTS, YOU SHOULD START NOW!!!! We will start in order they happened from oldest to most recent... Intelligix had an AWESOME event at the opening...

How would you like them to look just like the Out Of the Box Ones? http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/releases/viewuploads.aspx?id=b6499eb0-0eae-4597-b38e-ee9cbc71a404 has a tool, while not supported by Microsoft will help you in writing new reports...

Ok.. I get this question about three times a day... It is answered in the pricing white paper, but here it is broken down.... :-) Open is most customers. :-) Select and EA customers are the larger Microsoft customers. :-) Contact your LAR or Disty for...

To make it easier for you to invite customers, Corporate has created an email template. http://www.microsoftcrmdemo.com/CRMLaunchInvite.zip Remember the Awards we have for partners who drive the most attendees for the Launch.... :-) http://blogs.msdn...

Join Brad Wilson and Microsoft CRM 3.0 customers: United Way, Corillian, Euphonix and Essex Medical for four webcasts with major CRM publishers . Learn how Microsoft Dynamics CRM is redefining CRM with: · A native Microsoft Outlook interface...

Make sure you read Monday's CRM Newsletter that you sign up to on PartnerSource. We are distributing a NEW VPC with the RTM code and a bunch of goodies. I am doing demos all day on Monday and Tuesday, so it may be Wed, but you will have a "new" Goodies...

Saw an ISV yesterday that was way cool. They take our customer service module and supercharge it. Pricing for it is VERY competitive. I liked the Self Service Portal it was one of the slickest I have seen to date. For the road show, they will be participating...

Joris has posted a new and improved version of his Caching tool that speeds up CRM demos in a HUGE way. That and it looks way slicker. :-) It does require the .Net Framework 2.0.... I haven't tested this yet, but will when my RTM image finishes downloading...

This information was forwarded to me by Stefan Burak a PAM for San Fran. We still like Stefan even though he left us and went over to the sales side of the house. :-) http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/47425.html In addtion, there are a bunch of great...

Srinivas Penumaka announced today that the partner site has been revamped and updated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 content. New CRM 3.0 landing page: https://partner.microsoft.com/40023291 New CRM 3.0 o pportunity page: https://partner...

Want to know the bits and bytes of how CRM's new replications works? Yeah me too. :-) If your so inclined and need a cure for not sleeping... Here you go. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/replsql/reploptions_752r.asp...