After taking on a new role, still within Microsoft, I've decided to move my blog to here

At the end of March I’m flying out to the Sahara Desert to compete in the Marathons des Sables ‘The Toughest Footrace on Earth’ ( http://www.saharamarathon.co.uk/about.html ) Whilst I’m not looking forward to 151 miles carrying my provisions on my back...

Blogs, frogs and dogs - 3 things that I spend too much time looking at Michael Lu has put together a great screencast (7m 33s) showing how to set-up the Dynamics CRM 4 E-mail Router with Gmail's POP3 service. Check it out here: http://video.mikelu.org...

As ever, Simon has done a great job of highlighting that the software is downloadable and some information about the license keys . As of last week, the English, German and Spanish x86 bits are on MSDN Premium Downloads:

Sanjay and John have done a great job of putting together some short screencasts for CRM 4: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Office Communication Server 2007 with Sanjay Jain Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Multi-Language User Interface (MUI) with Sanjay Jain Microsoft...

Unleash the hounds! According to Michael Lu we shipped CRM 4 RTM on Friday - great job by all of the guys on the team. There'll be a short wait to get the bits on media and MSDN but expect to see some great solutions coming out shortly, all built on the...

A while back we filmed a bunch of videos with various folks on the CRM Team. The first of those has now made it onto Channel 9: http://blogs.msdn.com/benriga/archive/2007/11/15/phil-richardson-chats-up-crm-on-channel-9.aspx This one is a deep dive with...

Yes, I know that the NDA lifted on Monday and I'm later than some people , but don't worry, I'll catch up eventually. So one thing is that we are running a 3-day CRM 4.0 Developer Training Course in London starting on Monday 29th October. What's the catch...

Not that I would of course (internal chip kicking in there) I would build an application platform which gave the following: Easy customisation so ISVs could verticalise an application quickly and simply No weird tools, just familiar MS-type stuff and...

So this post is a bit late, but on the 13th I spoke at the OBA Architect Forum at our offices in London. The principal reason (apart from helping out with a lot of OBA stuff this coming year) was that we have some great business applications with great...

I get a good feeling from going to our new London office , OK they're a bit modern and swanky, especially the customer centre, but my principal reason is the journey... Instructions: Get to London Paddington Walk through Hyde Park As...

The service pack is now available for download from Partner Source and Customer Source. See the download page for a fix list and other information. PartnerSource - https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/downloads/servicepack/DynamicsAX40sp2.htm CustomerSource...

ISVs working with Dynamics should definitely take a look at the new Dynamics collateral on MSDN here .

Check out this link to find out where to download Ben Riga's presentation from Mix'07. In it, he presents with Jason Hunt of Invoke Systems about Microsoft Dynamics CRM's capability as an application platform. There are also two examples of great CRM...

We've had a great response to the Titan Ascend programme and, having run a successful 3-day developer workshop on the great new features, we still have spaces left on a second run , at Microsoft TVP (Reading) May 30th - June 1st. These places are only...

Check out this link for a post-Convergence chat and demonstration of Microsoft-hosted CRM Live.

Great work done by the CRM guys over in the US. It's free, open and available here: http://www.codeplex.com/crmanalytics From the site: For the business level:- "Microsoft Dynamics CRM Analytics Foundation is a business intelligence solution accelerator...

My blog posts == London buses New white paper available here

OK, so I'm really excited about CRM 'Titan' and I'm actively recruiting UK ISVs onto our early adopter 'Ascend' program. The multi-tenanted, multi-lingual and multi-currency features are fantastic and will definitely open up a host of opportunities. There...

This is a Vista Gadget designed to take ERP data periodically using web service calls and deliver it to the desktop. I intend to document its creation but, for now, some screenshots:

If you're an ISV or Developer looking at Dynamics AX 4.0 customisation and development then please check out these recent Channel9 videos by Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, one of the authors of "Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0". Model Driven Development...

Thought I'd start the blog off with a rip-roaring, seat of the pants post. Hmm. The 3.0.5 update to the Implementation Guide contains several changes including the following: Microsoft CRM client for Microsoft Office Outlook memory requirements...