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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

Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM available

Joris Kalz — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:54:00 GMT

Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM is now available:

KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959419

Download center page: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aa671769-61e9-45c4-919f-c88199aa4241

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.

Localization Wave 1 has been completed

Joris Kalz — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:38:00 GMT

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team just announced that ALL of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 WAVE 1 Languages (English, German, Spanish, French and Dutch) are now released and available for download! This includes both the language version plus the language packs. Wave 2 will be Simplified Chinese, Danish, Finnish, and Italian. The delivery date for all Wave 2 languages is currently scheduled for January 29th. We will continue to trickle out languages as they are available.

Great work!

PS: Some of you asked, if everything is fine with me. Don't worry, this is my last boring-list-of-download-posting, before I will write about using Silverlight to visualize relationships in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

English

90-Day Trial Version Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Readme
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Language Pack Readme
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 for Microsoft Office Outlook (For On-Premise and Hosted Editions) Readme
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Data Migration Manager Readme
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 E-mail Router (On-Premise and Hosted Editions) Readme
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Implementation Guide

German

Spanish

French

Dutch

First language packs now available

Joris Kalz — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:04:00 GMT

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team today announced that the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 English, German and Spanish language packs are now available for download.

Book about Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Joris Kalz — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:44:00 GMT

Via Philip. Mike Snyder and Jim Steger are finishing their new book about Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 titled Working with Microsoft Dynamics(tm) Crm 4.0, Second Edition (Pro - Developer) You can pre-order a copy of the book on amazon.com

Download Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Joris Kalz — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:38:00 GMT

Via blogs.msdn.com/crm:

Download the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Trial Versions in either 32 or 64-bit!
Download the Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook (For On-Premise and Hosted Editions) 32 bit!

Download the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Data Migration Manager 32 bit!
Download the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 E-mail Router (On-Premise and Hosted Editions) in either 32 or 64-bit!

Implementation Guid:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1CEB5E01-DE9F-48C0-8CE2-51633EBF4714&displaylang=en

RTM* for Microsoft Dynamics CRM code-named "Titan"

Joris Kalz — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:51:00 GMT

Congratulations to the whole Microsoft Dynamics CRM development team! Craig Unger (GM Microsoft Dynamics CRM R&D) and Brad Wilson (GM for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Business) just send out the internal note about the sign off and the release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 – formerly code-named “Titan”. This is a remarkable milestone for our CRM product, and enables us and our partners to deliver a whole new level of value and innovation to our customers. More information in the press release.

What I have seen so far, our development team has done an absolutely outstanding job in this release by delivering a unified code base that supports both on-premise and on-demand deployments. So our customers will be able to make the best decision based on their needs and requirements.

From small businesses to large enterprises, the new release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM offers an excellent user experience and exceptional ease of use and configuration. In addition the underlying platform technology of this new release raises the bar of customization to an undreamed level of flexibility to deliver world-class customer relationship systems for every type of business.

We will have a very fast localization process and in the next few days you will see a detailed plan for all 25 languages and their availability.

I am so excited about the new release, so please expect tons of postings on my blog about this release. Thanks again to the whole “Titan” team for delivering such a great product.

*Release to Manufacturing

Microsoft Dynamics CRM @ Joris Kalz's WebLog : Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

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

Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM available

Microsoft Dynamics CRM JScript Export Tool

Localization Wave 1 has been completed

English

German

Spanish

French

Dutch

Other documentation (English only)

First language packs now available

Book about Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Download Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

RTM* for Microsoft Dynamics CRM code-named "Titan"