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Developing SharePoint Applications

Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the release of: Developing SharePoint Applications Guidance for building collaborative applications that extend your LOB systems Customer Value SharePoint provides a comprehensive platform for

Date/Time Values in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Inherent to its nature as a Relationship Management product, Microsoft Dynamics CRM manages the time for all resources of a business as an important part of the system. Managing time values in the CRM system appears to be simple, but in practice it is

Why the CRM Web Client and Outlook Client Don’t Play Nicely Together

Larry asked recently why the web client looks funny when it is open at the same time as (or soon after) the Outlook client. Most people notice the missing Settings area, but the Service Calendar is also AWOL as are a few buttons here and there. (Here’s

Feature Spotlight: Bulk Edit

Sometimes we work hard on a feature, struggle to get it into the product, test it in all possible permutations, ship it...and then forget to tell anyone about it. We seem to have done this with Bulk Edit. For some entity types (Leads, Opportunities, Accounts,

Trimming the SharePoint chrome from Web Part Pages for use in Microsoft CRM iFrames

This post is a follow on to my post on removing the chrome from a document library view. http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2006/06/20/639918.aspx When using web part pages as a dashboard with-in the CRM window frame may want to remove the SharePoint navigation

Add Find Columns

I frequently encounter ‘Power Customizers’ who are unaware of a very basic customization feature: Add Find Columns. Each CRM entity has two special views: Quick Find and Lookup. The Quick Find view is the view displayed after an user invokes a Quick Find

Why Filtered Views Are Cool

In this article I want to describe my favorite feature from Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0: Filtered Views. Background Dynamics CRM is built on top of a complex SQL Server database. The CRM Platform component was designed to manage access to the underlying
 
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