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Those folks on the product team have been doing a great job of releasing regular updates ever since we launched Dynamics CRM 4.0. And for the past year or so they’ve been packaging updates, hot fixes and the like into convenient and more easily
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I’ve been meaning to post about the oft-asked questions surrounding audit trail capabilities using CRM 4.0. Low and behold, once again Menno has beat me to it. As is so often the case with the powerful development platform that is Dynamics
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Update Roll-up #4 is now available for your testing and deployment pleasure! http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968176 Update Roll-up 4 is a cumulative update roll-up that includes all the fixes for the issues that are documented in Update Roll-up 1, in
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The Microsoft BizTalk® Server 2006 adapter for Microsoft Dynamics® CRM 4.0 is now available. This adapter has the same functionality as the previously released 3.0 adapter, with the following updates: • Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit deployments of Microsoft
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Most of the IT world has at least heard of Section 508, an amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, but many are a bit sketchy on what's involved in actual 508 compliance. Here's an excerpt from the www.section508.gov website explaining the purpose
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There is a new CRM Partner blog with some great data on it around Dashboards. Thanks to the team over at I.B.I.S. for publishing some of their consulting knowledge for the rest of us. Enjoy this quick read. Creating a Dashboard using MOSS, Excel
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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