December 2005 - Posts
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go... Although most installations of CRM 3.0 succeed with the minimum of fuss, some do go a bit awry. Fabio, one of my colleagues in Brazil, came across the following installation error message: " Action Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Server.ProvisionBusinessAction
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So Here It Is, Merry Christmas... One of my team's CRM requirements is to track both customers and partners, which begs the question do I make use of the "Account" entity for both or do I create a custom entity for one (or both)? I decided to customise
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Help... So, I guess many of you have heard about the problems affecting Salesforce.com last week. If not, take a look at Ben's blog which has links to various news article from around the web - http://blogs.msdn.com/midatlanticcrm/archive/2005/12/22/506872.aspx
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Wired For Sound... We have just made a Virtual PC image available for download which contains a self-contained Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 environment for you to use for development, testing and demos. It includes: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 + Active
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Who Are You.... I was taking my weekly look at Microsoft Downloads for any new CRM-related stuff, and found that we have just posted a brand new article on how to set up delegation in a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 environment when CRM, SQL & Reporting
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Take Me Home, Country Road... From January 2006, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 will be available through the Microsoft Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) , which enables service providers and ISVs with a hosted offering to license Microsoft products
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Wuthering Heights... Although I used an unattended setup file, I still chose to step through each of the setup screens and run the Environment Diagnostics Wizard (EDW). Everything checked out OK so I proceeded. Everything seemed to be going well, until
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Don't Stop Me Now... Now that we have launched Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, many customers and partners have been asking when support for CRM 1.0 and CRM 1.2 will end. Here are the links to our support lifecycle information for CRM: Microsoft CRM 1.0 Support
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Babooshka... Now that I have my 4 servers, fully patched and added to the Microsoft corporate domain, the next task was to install the various application components. First off, I installed SQL Server 2005 on SQL01. Unlike SQL Server 2000, not only do
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Hounds of Love... In order to understand what it is really like for our customers and partners to install, customise and use MSCRM 3.0, we decided to "Eat Our Own Dog Food" (such a pleasant turn of phrase don't you think) and use the product within the
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Mr Blue Sky... I just saw that Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie (the Microsoft CRM Program Manager responsible for the Server SDK) has his own blog here - http://blogs.msdn.com/arash In particular he has posted an article on the use of Dynamic Entities vs Stongly
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MSCRM Downloads
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Introduction to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Technical Blog
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