April 2008 - Posts
Let me throw a question...If your were to have one feature (in the customizations space) that you really really really like to see on the next version of MS CRM... what would it be?
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It is now official, CRM online is in "open access" mode. It feels great to share the pride of bringing to the world one of the finest S+S offerings from Microsoft. And as the marketing campaign goes... the choice begins TODAY :) http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/saas/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=EEI14CKAZOIU4QSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=207401185&_requestid=15267
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At Microsoft, professionals (non-Microsoft employees) that make a significant impact within a given product community are awarded with the Most Valuable Professional title (as well as other goodies). CRM has one of the best, if not the best, MVP communities
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With CRM4, you have two ways of getting customizations into your system: Import/Export of customizations and the Metadata API. Which one should you use? A: Depends. If your intention is to create exact replicas of the information, Import/Export is the
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Today I asked my wife, what do you think a nice topic would be for a blog post? Her answer: The weather, is so nice around here (ironically of course)!! :) So yes, today my post is about how bad the weather is in Seattle.... cloudy skies all the time!!!
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With the CRM 4.0 enhancements to the plug-in and workflow engine as well as the introduction of the web based workflow designer I've seen many CRM developers asking the same question: When should I use workflow vs. plug-ins? The answer is “depends”; the
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Philip just released his updated tool to keep track of customization versions in CRM 4.0 http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/crmversion . The concept is pretty straight forward, a plug-in that is triggered whenever you publish or publish all your customizations.
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