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East Region Microsoft CRM Blog

This Blog is focused on Microsoft CRM. It specalizes in news for CRM partners and customers, customization tools for demos and local events in the Microsoft East Region.

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  • Welcome to the Mid-Atlantic CRM Blog, formerly owned and operated by Ben Vollmer, a CRM legend ;). My name is Chris Kahl and Ben has asked me to take over the care and feeding of this most valuable resource. Like Ben, my job is to help partners and customers with Microsoft CRM in the Eastern US. This blog is a great and searchable information source. Feel free to subscribe to the RSS feed to stay current with Dynamics CRM. Any tools discussed here are for DEMO only. You should NOT use these in a production environment unless you test them. Microsoft Support DOES NOT support these tools. Everything here is provided as-is with no warranty.

March 2008 - Posts

HotFixes Part Deux - During Installation
One of the coolest parts around CRM's setup is the ability for the setup program to automatically update CRM to the latest edition with all of the HotFixes that have been published. When you install Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, or when you upgrade to Microsoft Read More...
Updating CRM data from Excel.
One of the things my customers LOVE about CRM is the ability to dynamically link CRM to Excel Spreadsheets. The next question is normally if I can update CRM from Excel. One of my local partners, Prosoft Systems Intl, wrote a cool application based in Read More...
Nominate your solution for a Microsoft global award!
Each year, via its Worldwide Partner Conference Awards program, Microsoft recognizes partners who have delivered exemplary solutions built on Microsoft technologies. Awards are presented to winning partners at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Read More...
Customer Service Example - AWESOME Job by c360 and MSCRM-Addons.com
So often, all I ever hear about from Partners is horror stories about dealing with other partner. I never seem to hear about the good things that happen. This is a story about something VERY good a partner did for another partner and Microsoft. I was Read More...
New Tool Available - Change Service Job Times in CRM 4.0
Sean from the support group just let me know that there is a new tool to help customers out. In 3.0, I used to just stop the Deletion Service. With this tool, you can change the DeletionService and Re-Indexing service jobs in CRM 4.0. You can set the Read More...
Hotfixes for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 - Where are they?
If you're anything like me, you fight an issue for about four hours, throw your keyboard across the server room and finally give in and call Tech Support. And in about three min utes, the tech, says, ohh, yeah, that is a known issue. Have you applied Read More...
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