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Monday, February 04, 2008 9:00 PM

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 RTM VPC Now Available

I swear I have fielded about a dozen questions about this in email in the past couple of days. :-) Well, the good news that the VPC is now available. This VPC is set to expire in April 2009. The partner tat built this also worked on some Demo Tools. Here
Posted by Ben Vollmer | 1 Comments
Sunday, November 18, 2007 11:11 AM

Microsoft CRM 4.0 Release Candidate 0 VPC is now available

Thanks for the release of this... :-) We are fortunate to have partners who can do this much faster and better than we can internally. :-) (We beat my guess by 6 days...) This Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 RC0 VPC is designed to allow you to demonstrate
Posted by Ben Vollmer | 7 Comments
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 8:00 AM

Extending Microsoft Dynamics CRM to Office OneNote 2007

Daniel has a great way to get data from CRM to OneNote. The MSDN article is awesome. Enjoy! In today’s business world, collecting customer information is essential to building customer relationships and a sales pipeline. Through advances in customer relationship
Posted by Ben Vollmer | 1 Comments
Friday, November 02, 2007 12:27 PM

Having Problems with the August VPC?

About once a day I am getting questions from partners about the August 2007 Image with partners reporting that they are getting requests to log into the application from time to time. So like when you go into settings, customizations or right about that
Posted by Ben Vollmer | 2 Comments
Thursday, June 08, 2006 1:45 PM

Microsoft CRM for Dummies - Sample Chapter

So while using the internet for something completely different and tracking back where people come to the blog from, I found a sample chapter of Microsoft CRM for Dummies 3 on the Dummies Site. If you are interested in checking it out, click here. It
Posted by Ben Vollmer | 0 Comments
Tuesday, June 06, 2006 7:50 AM

Demo Tip: Using Differencing Disks to save hard drive space

If you are like me, you probably have a half a dozen or more active clients / prospects you are working with at any given time. Take that and times it by 9 GB each and you may have 10-20 of them on your machine at any given time. So running out of space
Posted by Ben Vollmer | 2 Comments
Thursday, May 25, 2006 5:00 AM

Enough of the teasing... The new VPC has shipped...

VPC is finally really posted... :-) (More info is here. ) Remember to attend the Live Meeting on June 8th and give us your feeedback! Thanks! Ben
Posted by Ben Vollmer | 3 Comments
Thursday, May 18, 2006 8:45 AM

Watch this space... New VPC is almost here...

More details will be published a little later today, but we "shipped" the Microsoft CRM 3.0 Demo VPC yesterday. This one has a BUNCH of really cool things configured on it and some AWESOME demo data. (Still Adventure Works Cycle, but much better data.)
Posted by Ben Vollmer | 16 Comments
Tuesday, May 02, 2006 7:00 AM

ISV for Microsoft CRM 3: VAST

MSDN had a sample for audit trails for 1.2, which was cool if you wanted to write your own code. In the event that you are like me and lazy**, you should look at this product. Anyone with a need to audit or track all changes in MS CRM should look at VAST
Posted by Ben Vollmer | 0 Comments
Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:00 AM

New Materials Posted to the Microsoft Partner Portal for CRM

You may need to have a valid Microsoft Passport to access these materials. I love the qualification tool. Way cool. Event in a Box (through-partner marketing materials) – check Market & Sell section on https://partner.microsoft.com/global/productssolutions/business/businesscrm/40025241
Posted by Ben Vollmer | 0 Comments
Friday, March 24, 2006 11:10 AM

ISV Support for Microsoft CRM 3: KnowledgeSync by Vineyard Software

I have been using this tool for a bunch of years. (Since back in the GoldMine days.) This tool is great if you have workflow that you want to go between multiple systems, you want to do something that Microsoft CRM's workflow engine doesn't natively support
Posted by Ben Vollmer | 8 Comments
Thursday, March 23, 2006 5:00 PM

Tips to Speed Up Virtual PC for Microsoft CRM

Virtual PC’s can be the best way to demo Microsoft CRM as it allows you demo CRM with out using Terminal Services, a Web Connection or anything but laptop and the image. I get complaints from sales people and sales executives on the performance of VPC
Posted by Ben Vollmer | 28 Comments
Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:05 AM

Things to Bring to Convergence....

If you or anybody from your team is headed to Convergence, make sure they pack a spare hard drive with at least 10 GB of Hard Drive Space. (External Hard Drives Only) If you are lucky, you may run across one of us who has a late Beta of the new VPC we
Posted by Ben Vollmer | 2 Comments
Friday, March 10, 2006 4:06 PM

Microsoft CRM SharePoint List View

The Microsoft CRM team has just released the List Web Part for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0. The List Web Part provides Windows SharePoint Services v2 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 users with the ability to embed Microsoft CRM data
Posted by Ben Vollmer | 5 Comments
Monday, February 13, 2006 3:09 PM

Displaying Microsoft CRM Business Data in SharePoint Web Parts

Learn how to build portals and dashboards in SharePoint sites by using Web Parts that display Microsoft CRM data. This article accompanies a sample Visual Studio .NET solution that contains sample Web Parts for a Customer Service Portal. This article
Posted by Ben Vollmer | 1 Comments
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