East Region Microsoft CRM Blog

  The Big Easy 3.0 is available now through the end of this fiscal year.  Check it out here:   http://www.microsoftincentives.com/BigEasy3/

So...with the drop of the new and vastly improved CRM VPC image imminent, many partners are asking me where to get the base image and VM Express tool they'll need to access and download the aforementioned image.  Which brings us to this post...  ...

Startups: Announcing 2nd Microsoft Dynamics CRM Incubation Week From Sanjay Jain's blog : On popular demand after very successful 1 st CRM Incubation Week , we are pleased to announce 2 nd CRM Incubation Week (Boston, week of 20 th April). The current...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=05453fa4-9551-4a88-9852-634a9ad0e140&displaylang=en Here in the midst of Convergence 2009 in The Big Easy our illustrious product team has yet again surpassed themselves with a third update...

OK, OK It's been available for a couple weeks now.  Sheesh!  Everybody's a critic! Here's the link... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=aa671769-61e9-45c4-919f-c88199aa4241&displaylang=en&tm

It has been 3 and a half years since I started blogging here on MSDN. It has been a fun ride, and one that I will never forget. This blog went from last place to the Top 100 of all blogs on MSDN. (Second only to the CRM Team’s blog.) I did however, make...

I am very tardy in publishing this. :) Last month I was invited by the fine folks over at Scribe Software to attend their Level 2 Scribe Insight Training program. I have been using Scribe since dirt was formed, but since joining Microsoft 4 years have...

The headline says it all.  Here's the link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=57c6267b-3b13-49dd-bfed-3cc83633aea7&displaylang=en&tm   Make sure you back up your databases before applying the update!

OK...OK I know everyone has been sitting on the edge of their seats ever since the CRM accelerators were originally announced and one of the more anticipated accelerators was the one for eService.  SO GO NUTS!  IT'S AVAILABLE ON CODEPLEX!!!  ...

It's no secret that one of the biggest strengths of Dynamics CRM is the robust development platform that underlies the application.  With this in mind and in few of the challenging economic environment, our friends over on the CRM ISV team have put...

I know you have all been waiting (some more patiently than others!) for information on where to access the recorded training sessions and where to download the CRM Accelerators.  A central repository has been established on PartnerSource for the...

The Microsoft BizTalk® Server 2006 adapter for Microsoft Dynamics® CRM 4.0 is now available. This adapter has the same functionality as the previously released 3.0 adapter, with the following updates: • Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit deployments...

Most of the IT world has at least heard of Section 508, an amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, but many are a bit sketchy on what's involved in actual 508 compliance. Here's an excerpt from the www.section508.gov website explaining the purpose...

CWR Mobility has long been the Dynamics CRM client of choice for running on a Windows Mobile device. Here's a link to their web site: http://www.cwrmobility.com/ The following excerpt from their web site covers the major features of the mobile application...

Ten Digits and Microsoft announced an alliance right before the Worldwide Partner Conference to provide CRM Mobile clients for both Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices.  Full press release below: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/jul08...

As much as I depend on my laptop to get my work done, I think I value my Windows Mobile device even more. I can keep abreast of the most critical email and text messaging traffic and convert what would often be wasted time into productive time. I have...

I am more and more impressed with the tremendous amount of talent we have on the CRM Product Team.  I had the chance to meet with some of them over the past month or so and talk about where we are going with the product and what we need to help our...

I loved the 3.0 one we did for Small Business Edition that you were able to modify to work with a client's installation. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 User’s Guide includes all of the basic end-user information available in Help, including documentation...

There is a new CRM Partner blog with some great data on it around Dashboards. Thanks to the team over at I.B.I.S. for publishing some of their consulting knowledge for the rest of us.  Enjoy this quick read. Creating a Dashboard using MOSS, Excel...

One of our local customers got featured by Microsoft in a press release. Pretty cool. Thanks to Scott from Ascentium and Seth at Dunbar for working through this process. If you have a customer that would want a press release like this, shoot me an email...

I am in the process of switching my demo laptop over to Hyper-V to see if I can't get some better performance from Virtual Machines than we currently get with Virtual PC. In the mean time the Virtual PC team has released Service Pack 1 for VPC 2007. It...

So I spent most of the weekend working on my TechEd Session. The Plug-in registration tool included as part of the SDK killed me with the XML file and I not getting along. Shawn and Melissa for support called me about some survey partners with CRM and...

So I went into the DC office the other day and checked my mail box. Can you guess the last time I checked my office mailbox? Yup. Beginning of December. (And it is now Almost the first of June...) It also looks like the team over at EntreQuest are doing...

If I was paid a penny every time that question was asked, I would be a millionaire. Between the Microsoft Partner Portal, PartnerSource, the CRM Website and blogs, finding things takes forever.  The CRM Business Group published a nice list of all...

Jim Glass was nice enough to post a Workflow Post on the CRM Team Blog. Thanks Jim!   In case you haven't figured it out, I am crazy about the Workflow in CRM 4.0.... I am pretty sure that we have just scratched the surface of what can be done with...