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Troubleshooting Microsoft Dynamics CRM

CRM MVP Aaron Elder contributes this article at TechNet: I’m back for a second article on Microsoft Dynamics CRM (see the first article, " Deploying Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 "), with a focus on something I am passionate about—that is, troubleshooting.

Connect for Microsoft Dynamics

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM team really is heads down working on the product, planning, researching, and testing. But we find time to take a look at your suggestions sent using Connect for Microsoft Dynamics . Once you have created an account, you can
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM defined in 30 seconds

Taken from the CRM MVP alias with the quoted MVP’s permissions: Larry: Today at lunch I was asked by a friend what CRM was. I was suddenly at a loss of words. How do you describe a product like Microsoft Dynamics CRM in a 30 second elevator speech to
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Start a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Community

Read more… Cheers, Mark Rhodes, CRMUG Program Coordinator tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; tweetmeme_source = 'MSdynamicsCRM';

Microsoft Dynamics CRM at a Glance

I saw this in a slide deck and thought, how many times had I been asked for this kind of information. I’m not sure how old the info is, but most of it isn’t based on numbers but on capabilities. SOA means “Service-Oriented Architecture. Cheers, JaAG tweetmeme_style

Maximizing Your Sales with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

And interesting book has caught my attention. It is Course Tech PTR’s Maximizing Your Sales with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 by Edward Kachinske and Timothy Kachinske. Here’s what is being said about the book: “Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is a fully integrated
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The CRM Configurator’s Dilemma: Repurpose or Create?

Today’s guest blogger is CRM MVP Joel Lindstrom who discusses tips and tricks when working with system entities. Joel blogs at CustomerEffective . As you configure Microsoft Dynamics CRM , one question that frequently arises is should I create a custom

Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Email correlation and smart matching

What is correlation and why is it required. One of the important scenarios in email management within CRM is to have the incoming email get associated with the correct object it’s regarding to. Consider the scenario where you have created an email

Thoughts on Forms

Forms, forms, forms… It’s amazing how much manual data entry we still have to do in what is supposed to be an increasingly automated world.  For a data-intensive application like CRM, the way the application presents and requests data
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The Dynamics Duo… Dynamics Super Heroes?

Girish Raja and I (Ben Riga) just finished up a few videos for Channel 9 to show off the superhuman … super-developer … line-of-business platform power you get when you build your solution on Dynamics CRM.  There are 5 videos we put together
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Managing size of AsyncOperationBase table in CRM 4.0

The asyncoperation entity is used in CRM 4.0 to manage various system jobs by the CRM Asynchronous Processing Host (MSCRMAsyncService) windows service. Over time this table accumulates large number of records leading to large databases. This is especially
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CRM 4.0 Relationships Explained

Relationships in CRM 4.0 are quite powerful but hard to understand at first. There are so many moving parts tied to so many places that it is sometimes difficult to predict what the actual outcome is. So here is my attempt to explain a bit further what
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