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Improving Microsoft Dynamics CRM Performance and Securing Data with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Joris Kalz — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:46:16 GMT

Initiated by the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Engineering for Enterprise Team a new document has been released, which shows the different techniques you can use to further improve the performance of Microsoft Dynamics CRM by using SQL Server 2008. In summary, the results of the testing efforts demonstrate that the SQL 2008 features like Compression, Filtered Indexes, Sparse Columns, Backup Compression can significantly improve the application performance of both SQL Server 2008 and Dynamics CRM 4.0 while resulting in space savings. Download the document here:

Improving Microsoft Dynamics CRM Performance and Securing Data with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Microsoft Dynamics CRM JScript Export Tool

Joris Kalz — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:04:56 GMT

I recently had to transfer several customizations to a different CRM installation. While Microsoft Dynamics CRM offers an export and import functionality, in this case I just wanted to select specific client side customizations. However, manually grabbing all jscript code is a little bit time consuming. Instead, I wrote a few lines of code to export all jscript code without annoying interaction.

The code is pretty straight forward, so feel free to modify. You can download the VS 2008 project here: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Jscript Export Tool

Before you start this tool, you have to change the app.config according to your CRM installation:

After running the tool, all client side jscript will be stored at the declared output folder.

The result will be a list of all entities containing jscript separated by event type and further by form and field events.

Hopefully you like this tool. In the final stage of this tool, it will be even possible to write changes back to Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Updated Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 SDK

Joris Kalz — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:33:00 GMT

Via E-Mail from Amy:

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 SDK download package has been updated. Version 4.0.1 includes several important changes:

The Plug-in walkthrough in the CHM has been updated to match the readme that is included in the SDK\Walkthroughs folder.
The Readme file in the SDK\tools\deployworkflowtool folder has been corrected.
Additional sample code has been added in the Scripting Sample Code topic.
New content has been added to the URL Addressable Forms topic.

CRM 4.0 plug-in registration tool

Joris Kalz — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:04:00 GMT

Great posting from Jonas about an update regarding the CRM 4.0 plug-in registration tool. Continue reading: http://blogs.msdn.com/jonasd/archive/2008/01/12/access-denied-when-using-pluginregistration-tool.aspx

Plug-in development and registration is a much more powerfull in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 compared to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 SDK ships with two tools helping you to register your plug-ins. Jonas added a smart improvement, he simple added a new property and once checked default credentionals are used when connection to discovery and crm webservice.

Dutch Language Pack available

Joris Kalz — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:15:00 GMT

Direct link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=nl&FamilyID=50761e58-6040-4cf3-853a-f5ab535f7194

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Spanish Language Version

Joris Kalz — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:16:00 GMT

How frustrating, he is always faster: http://blogs.msdn.com/mscrmfreak/archive/2008/01/07/usted-habla-espa-ol-and-crm.aspx

Direct link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=es&FamilyID=99cb3a7a-eba9-4de9-b0f1-2ebf11c3d756