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March 2007 - Posts

New Microsoft Dynamics CRM V3C Terminal Server scripts!
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 desktop client for Microsoft Office Outlook Compatibility Release for Terminal Server Deployment Scripts are now available for download in the following languages: French, German, Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Read More...
Microsoft CRM SDK 3.0.6
As you probably already know, today we launched an updated version of our Software Developer Kit. You can download the latest update to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 SDK here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9C178B68-3A06-4898-BC83-BD14B74308C5&displaylang=en Read More...
IEDevToolbar, IE7 and Microsoft CRM
Ok this is frustrating. This is my third attempt to write this post and hopefully IE doesn't crash on me this time. So here is my last attempt for tonight. You all know that I am not a developer and that you normally do not see developer related posts Read More...
Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE'
Ever wondered why the error "Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE'. [CLIENT: xxx.xxx.x.x]" shows up in the eventviewer on the current CRM VPC when booting? Microsoft CRM Deletion and Microsoft CRM Workflow Service services attempt to access Read More...
CRM article for the Dutch speaking readers
You all should know the Dutchie Ronald Lemmen by now. After exchanging only emails and blog comments with him, I had the chance to meet with him on Convergence last week in San Diego. Even though he is technical consultant, Ronald wrote a nice "Sales Read More...
Microsoft Blog Directory
I guess Todd reads my blog. I recently posted my CRM tab for www.live.com In this tab I listed the most active CRM blogs, in other words these blogs are being updated on a regular basis. Todd Bishop, a reporter for the Seattle PI, took it to the next Read More...
What is wrong with the US spelling system?
Many Dutch last names start with an independent prefix (" tussenvoegsel ") like van ("of"), de or het ("the"), der , van de or van der ("of the"), and in het ("in the"). Examples are De Groot ("the great"), Van Weert ("of the city Weert"). Many such Dutch Read More...
Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM
Yesterday at the closing keynote at Convergence, Steve Ballmer showed a live demo of the upcoming Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM service. Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM is powered by the upcoming release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, code-named “Titan,” which Read More...
Day three at Convergence
Day three at convergence was an exhausting day. I started off with a two hour booth duty at the Microsoft Dynamics CRM booth, it was so busy and this kind of turned out to be more of a five hour session. In between I met with Eric van Hoof from CWR Mobility Read More...
Day two at Convergence
I was sitting here with Philip Richardson while I was thinking what to write about the second day on Convergence. I could write a long post about what I saw and learned today, but when I was reading this post at Microsoft Watch I decided to link to their Read More...
Day one at Convergence
Today was the first day of Convergence in San Diego. I had a great time talking with customers and partners while I was on and off booth duty on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Booth in the Expo center. If you want to talk Microsoft CRM, attending Convergence Read More...
Drinking and DST
As you know I am attending Convergence here at San Diego. Last night we had the whole Daylight Saving Time happening. Well I wanted to write this short blog telling you guy's that drinking and DST is a bad combination. You party all night, come home at Read More...
Chinese and Japanese DST updates have been released
With the release of our Chinese and Japanese packages, all in-band languages of the Time Zone Data Updates and Update Time Zones Wizard for Microsoft CRM 3.0 have been released to the Microsoft Download Center. They are available via http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?amp;displaylang=en&familyid=8A7319E6-5B86-4E7A-9BE1-763F2072BE21&displaylang=e Read More...
Documentation refresh for Time Zone Data Updates and Update Time Zones Wizard!
Greg keeps me busy with this whole Daylight Saving Time stuff. One more post to help you guys deal with DST in the field. They posted a new version (Rev. 1.1) of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Remediation Instructions for 2007 Daylight Saving Time Changes Read More...
The non-English versions of the CRM 3.0 & SPE Time Zone Data Updates!
All non-English versions of the CRM 3.0 Time Zone Data Updates and Update Time Zones Wizard for Microsoft CRM 3.0 Service Provider Edition, also known as SPE or SPLA have been released to the Microsoft Download Center. The English version for SPLA was Read More...
BETA! CRM Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 or MOM 2005
We have had so much requests the last couple of years to integrate with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and right now we get the same questions for the upcomming System Center Operations Manager 2007 release. So what is Operations Manager? "The current Read More...
Microsoft CRM Pre-Sales Technical Demonstration Packs!
I got a nice scoop from Rob our Product Manager specific for Partner Readiness around his " Pre-Sales Technical Demonstration Download Packs". Enjoy and happy selling! Demonstrating Microsoft CRM 3.0 to Sales Professionals http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=195858d8-d780-44e0-9cb5-bb33033ded59&displaylang=en Read More...
New Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Terminal Server scripts!
Our development teams are busy. Today they released the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 desktop client for Microsoft Office Outlook Compatibility Release for Terminal Server Deployment Scripts and the updated scripts are now available for download in the following Read More...
Mary Jo Foley and my blog?
Everybody knows who Mary Jo Foley is right? She has been reporting and covering the Tech industry and especially Microsoft for the past 20 years or so. If you want to see a great interview with her take a look at Scobleizer's site and click the podcast: Read More...
www.live.com: Sharing my CRM page
As you all might know I am a great fan of www.live.com and it has been my start page for a long time. A new option is to share your "tabs' with others. So after seeing this new feature and testing it I started cleaning out my "CRM blog collection". Cleaning Read More...
The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Time Zone Data Updates!
The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Time Zone Data Updates (KB 925874) and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Update Time Zones Wizard (KB 932984) have been released to the Microsoft Download Center. The associated Microsoft Knowledge Base articles have also been Read More...
Microsoft Dynamics 3.0: How to integrate and keep costs low?
Today a blog by Sandor Schellenberg, a consultant working for ATOS Origin in The Netherlands. He also recently started his own blog which can be found here: http://friendlycrmonster.blogspot.com The most common question I receive as Microsoft CRM 3.0 Read More...
405 Method not allowed... The server might be down!
Let me introduce Steven Vlaanderen Oldenzeel, a consultant that works for Microsoft in The Netherlands. I have asked if he would write a blog and he was more than happy to do so. See the result below. 405 Method not allowed - The server might be down Read More...
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