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Monday, November 28, 2005 7:37 PM

CRM Launch - Personalized Sites

Sign Up Your Prospects for the CRM Launch with Your Own Registration Page Are you concerned about registering your Prospects and Customers for the CRM Launch Event and keeping your leads private and viewable only by your organization? Interested in having
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Monday, November 28, 2005 1:31 PM

Last Day for 1 for 3 Promotion

You have been doing a FANTASTIC job successfully pushing the buy now incentive. I wanted to make sure that you are aware that the last possible day to place an order utilizing the incentive is WEDNESDAY, November 30 th . Please ensure that you communicate
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005 1:24 PM

Business Contact Manager to Microsoft CRM

One of the cool things coming for Microsoft CRM 3.0, is the ability to be able to import data from Business Contact Manager directly into Microsoft CRM. It is being designed to run on our Small Business Edition, but should run on the Professional Edition
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005 7:42 AM

Do you hate the Bike Shop?

I have been hating the demo company for Microsoft CRM called Adventure Works Cycle for the past three years. Sometimes the analogy of a Bike Distributor is missed on most people. (They can't make the jump from their company to a bike company.) And cleaning
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Friday, November 18, 2005 12:37 PM

I Promise to be Technical again soon....

After a couple of weeks of posting sales stuff, I promise you will get a dose of techie stuff soon... :-)
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Friday, November 18, 2005 12:27 PM

Installing Microsoft CRM from MSDN

The Keys that where included with your November MSDN Subscription are for TESTING and DEVELOPMENT Only. In December you will get your keys for production. Microsoft Dynamics TM CRM 3.0 distribution MSDN downloads (available now) – please see below. MSDN
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Monday, November 14, 2005 6:44 PM

Ok... ERP is not what I like to talk about but...

AMR just published a great research paper on ERP Systems. " Office 12 vs. ERP: In Battle for Business Process Dominance" Want to show people how Microsoft CRM is at the cutting edge of the convergence of Office and Business Applications. http://www.amrresearch.com/Content/View.asp?pmillid=18912
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:54 PM

Some Pricing Data... Finally...

I get about three or four emails a day asking me for pricing... Here is the response from corporate from the CRM news letter you can subscribe to on PartnerSource. Microsoft CRM 3.0 Pricing & Licensing Update - Sales Series (1 of 3) December 1, 2005
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005 1:25 PM

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner Conversations

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner Conversations! Join us this month for the latest updates on Microsoft CRM. This is a regional call to assist local partners (Mid Atlantic, South East and Gulf States) in selling and implementing Microsoft CRM. This month
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Monday, November 07, 2005 2:25 PM

Fun with JScript and OnLoad - Phone Numbers...

Here is the script for formatting the phone numbers in Microsoft CRM. In this example, new_contact phone is a custom field, but it can work on any Field... Field Events - OnChange The OnChange event is fired when the data in a form field has changed and
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Sunday, November 06, 2005 7:42 AM

Fun with JScript and OnLoad

Microsoft CRM has always had the ability to use JScript on forms. In 1.x, you where limited to a subset of field types. In 3.0, all of the fields have the OnChange event (so if you change the value of the field, the script is triggered.) In addition,
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Saturday, November 05, 2005 10:45 AM

Local Event: Mid-Atlantic Partner Technical Briefing

I know you guys read EVERY line in the partner newsletter, but in case you missed it, here is a great event your team should focus on if you’re interested. Chris Regan and I will be doing a ½ day technical deep dive on things like Jscript in CRM, SPS
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Saturday, November 05, 2005 10:29 AM

Microsoft CRM 3.0 Launch.... Are you ready?

From the shameless promotion department....[:D] From January through March 2006, we will be showcasing our new product at 35 cities throughout the US and we would like your help to ensure that this is the best launch ever. There are several ways in which
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Friday, November 04, 2005 5:56 PM

Making Demos of Microsoft CRM Run Faster!!!!

New Version just released. http://blogs.msdn.com/joris_kalz/archive/2005/12/08/CachingTool.aspx for the latest. This version is being removed... :-) As you all probably know... I ain't the brighest bulb in the pack, but there are a bunch of folks who
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005 2:23 AM

Dashboards...

To get these items, all you need is the TDT disk from the partner launch and the differencing file from here. Download Link (This will ONLY work if you have the TDT DVD.) One of the coolest things you can do with Microsoft CRM 3.0 is build dashboard of
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