East Region Microsoft CRM Blog

UPDATED: I have about a half a dozen emails in my inbox from partners and a few from employees around the Demo Tools. The thing that seems to confuse everybody is the logging in thing. :-) The Read Me File is VERY complete in everything but the values...

I swear I have fielded about a dozen questions about this in email in the past couple of days. :-) Well, the good news that the VPC is now available. This VPC is set to expire in April 2009. The partner tat built this also worked on some Demo Tools...

We have so many great people on the CRM team around the world that I spend a fair amount of time reading their blogs to keep up with all the little issues, details and factoids that affect CRM partners and customers. One recent issue that has been making...

www.dynamicscrmlaunch.com is the official page for the Microsoft CRM 4.0 Launch here in the US. Allison Dawson from the East Region Marketing team has done a killer thing for you as a partner. She has managed to get an additional 12 Launch cities for...

About once a week I get a question about if there is a Web Service that does x or y. (Usually something like Exchange Rates, or Maps) Here is a cool site I was shown that has a great list of Web Service Interfaces, some example mashups and what is required...

Joel over on the Customer Effective Blog has some great tips on editing the SiteMap. Having cut my teeth on it in 3.0, it is nice to have some of these little tricks.  Of course using the demonstration tool has made much of this easier for me now...

Thanks Amy for sharing... Introduction to Plug-in Development for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Discover how you can customize and extend Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 through the integration of custom business logic. Read this article to get an overview of...

Big Easy Offer is a great cross selling opportunity for you as a partner. It is payable to you as a partner as a Service Rebate. (Which means that the customer pays the normal price and then in 30-60 days gets a check mailed to them made out to you as...

In the past couple of months, I have gotten pings from several partners as well as employees who have relocated their blogs or started blogging. (And for those of you asking, mine will be moving to www.BusinessNone.com in the next couple of months as...

As many of you may know, I got a new job on July 1st 2007 as is the annual Microsoft tradition. In early September, we hired a fine resource from one of our local partners. As a result, Chris Kahl joined our team. He resides in the vast metropolis of...

Hello everybody. Welcome to my inagural blog post. So I will readily admit that I'm pretty new to this whole blogging thing. Please be generous with your praise and constructive with your criticism as I attempt to fill the ginormous shoes of Mr. Ben Vollmer...