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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.

April 2008 - Posts

Field Events: FireOnChange
Almost two years ago, there was a tip published here about auto saving forms from a JScript OnChange event . While poking around the SDK tonight looking for something, I found a cool nugget. You can force the OnChange event to occur for a field from the Read More...
Business Data Catalog - Follow-up from Convergence
So I know that this way overdue. Way. After Convergence, I came back and went on vacation and then Beth was in the hospital for an unexpected week. There is a decent summation of the event from Brian Willson of the Microsoft Chemicals Team. http://blogs.msdn.com/chemicals/archive/2008/03/13/a-good-dynamics-crm-blog.aspx Read More...
Creating Phone Calls from Cases
One of the most often complaints I have heard is that CRM is sometimes too "Window" happy. In 4.0 the product team made some huge strides to make it less clicky. And they gave us some REALLY cool tools to do some of it ourselves. The new Workflow as a Read More...
Upgrading from 90 Day Trial to Production Keys and having issues?
My basic rule of thumb is that if I get emailed twice about an issue, I blog about it. :-) So here is the blog post. :-) The basic scenario is this. The customer or partner downloads Microsoft CRM 90 Day Trail Keys from here . And then they select the Read More...
Demo Tips: Patch Tuesday!
So this should be a Demo 101 tip. If you are running your demos in a virtual environment like I do, make sure that your host machine gets all of it's patches BEFORE you launch your virtual machine in full screen. (What is Patch Tuesday?) Last week for Read More...
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