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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:56 AM

Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Append Vs. Append To – What’s the Difference?

Today’s guest blogger is CRM MVP Joel Lindstrom who blogs at CustomerEffective . Thanks for this security 101 overview. This post is CRM security 101, but I get asked this question fairly often, so it seems that there is some confusion about what the
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:32 AM

Automating Task Notification

CRM MVP Mitch Milam returns as our guest blogger today a tip based on workflows. You can read more from Mitch at his blog . If you have ever assigned a task to someone and wondered when or if they completed it, this workflow process may help. This workflow
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:46 AM

Using SQL Server 2008 to Improve Report Resources Management

Today’s guest blog is submitted by CRM MVP Jim Steger of Sonoma Partners . We’ve all had it happen; someone runs a very resource intensive report during the day which slows down the performance of CRM for all the users. This now can happen more frequently
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 9:33 AM

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.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:48 AM

Fine Tune your Microsoft Dynamics CRM Workflows

Guest blogger and CRM MVP Donna Edwards talks about a tip to help you tune your workflows. In working through some optimization on a CRM server, I thought it would be a good idea to check the running System Jobs.  This particular CRM installation
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 2:58 PM

Power User Tips: The CRM 4.0 Metadata Cache

CRM MVP Michael Höhne is our guest blogger today. You can read more by him on his blog . I don't know about you but I'm using the CRM metadata in almost all of my applications. It may be as simple as the need for an object type code and can be as complex
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Monday, September 28, 2009 7:33 AM

Case Number is Just the Ticket

Today’s guest blogger is the technical director of AlexaCRM™ and CRM MVP George Doubinski . Follow him at his blog, Georged CRM Blog . Microsoft Dynamics CRM has a number of entities that, in addition to the record id (represented by GUID data type in
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Friday, September 25, 2009 9:13 AM

Automating Field Updates

Today our guest blogger is CRM MVP Donna Edwards . Donna is also a moderator on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM forums where she can often be found answering questions and providing professional advice. Here is a simple way to calculate the value of a field
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:09 AM

Why a DeleteRequest returns a (empty) DeleteResponse

CRM MVP Michael Höhne is our guest blogger today. You can read more by him on his blog . You may have noticed that when working with the Execute method of the CRM web service you always get a response, even if it doesn’t contain any data. For instance,
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 8:26 AM

Data Integration – a Reporting Approach

Our guest blogger today is CRM MVP David Jennaway , the technical director of Excitation Ltd , a Microsoft Gold Partner in the UK that specializes in delivering Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions. This post originated with a conversation I was having with
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 9:03 AM

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
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 7:46 AM

View a CRM Record’s Properties

Today’s guest blogger is CRM MVP Mitch Milam and you can visit his blog at http://blogs.infinite-x.net . Have you ever wondered what your permissions are for a specific CRM record?  If so, then let me show you how to quickly find out. After opening
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 8:38 AM

Microsoft Dynamics CRM for User Groups

CRM MVP Julie Yack is our guest blogger today and talks to us about her experience using Microsoft Dynamics CRM for the XRM Virtual User Group . It is no secret that I am a fan of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.  Not only is it a cool little (ha!) tool,
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 9:34 AM

A Plethora of Phone Attributes

Jerry Weinstock is the Business Development Manager at CRM Innovation a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. CRM Innovation builds functional enhancements and codeless solutions for Dynamics CRM 4.0. Jerry has been doing implementations since version 1.2.
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 8:40 AM

Updating a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Record in a Read-only State

Our guest blogger today is CRM MVP Donna Edwards who blogs regularly here . Ever wonder how to update Closed or Completed CRM records like Activities, Quotes, or Opportunities that are in Completed, Won or Lost status using a supported method that does
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