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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.

May 2008 - Posts

CRM Plug-in Registration Tool
So I spent most of the weekend working on my TechEd Session. The Plug-in registration tool included as part of the SDK killed me with the XML file and I not getting along. Shawn and Melissa for support called me about some survey partners with CRM and Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:46 AM by Ben Vollmer | 1 Comments
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I REALLY Need to Check my mail box more often
So I went into the DC office the other day and checked my mail box. Can you guess the last time I checked my office mailbox? Yup. Beginning of December. (And it is now Almost the first of June...) It also looks like the team over at EntreQuest are doing Read More...
Posted: Monday, May 26, 2008 3:37 PM by Ben Vollmer | 2 Comments
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Where do I find?
If I was paid a penny every time that question was asked, I would be a millionaire. Between the Microsoft Partner Portal, PartnerSource, the CRM Website and blogs, finding things takes forever.  The CRM Business Group published a nice list of all Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:43 PM by Ben Vollmer | 1 Comments
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Workflow - Phone Call Conversion of Lead to Opportunity Posted on CRM Team Blog
Jim Glass was nice enough to post a Workflow Post on the CRM Team Blog. Thanks Jim!   In case you haven't figured it out, I am crazy about the Workflow in CRM 4.0.... I am pretty sure that we have just scratched the surface of what can be done with Read More...
Posted: Monday, May 19, 2008 11:12 AM by Ben Vollmer | 1 Comments
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Pesky Name Field - Part Deux
This is an alternative method of doing the same thing we talked about with this post.   Jon G from Microsoft Consulting was the first guy to poke a whole in the Pesky Name Field posted last week. He has a point, Client Side Scripts do not work in Read More...
Posted: Friday, May 16, 2008 4:24 PM by Ben Vollmer | 1 Comments
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Guest Post on CRM Team Blog
Stayed tuned on Monday for a blog on the CRM Team's Blog. I am amazed by the workflow in CRM 4.0 and been playing with it heavily for the past month. And Jim Glass was nice enough to take a post and publish it there vs. here for you to enjoy! So visit Read More...
Posted: Friday, May 16, 2008 3:50 PM by Ben Vollmer | 4 Comments
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It's official! CRM is now supported in a virtual environment!
As anybody who has been reading this blog knows, we use Virtual PC to demonstrate Dynamics CRM and have been doing so for years. But, until recently, Microsoft's official position on running CRM in a virtual environment was that it was unsupported. That Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12:52 PM by chris.kahl | 0 Comments
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The Pesky Name Field on Custom Entities
When you create a new custom entity by default, it creates a field called Name that is used on lookups, etc. If you don't use the field, it can cause some headaches.  I have been using this as an area to store some information that would make searching Read More...
Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008 3:42 PM by Ben Vollmer | 6 Comments
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