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Deep In The Motherlode… As part of my development work I sometimes need to test applications using both IFD and Windows authentication on my Virtual PC demo environment. However, looking through the various blog posts here and here , it seemed that no-one
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It’s The End Of The World As We Know It… There’s been a lot of noise this week around the broad availability of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) (available for download here ), but the thing that caught my attention was the beta availability of a new
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Going For The One… I’ve been head-down working on closing out Q4 CRM deals here in the UK, but wanted to share a couple of tweaks that have made a small improvement to the speed of my demos running on Virtual PC 2007. 1. Prevent your PC from entering
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Holy Diver... The other day I was working on one of my Virtual PC demo images, when I noticed I was running out of disk space. When I originally created the Virtual Hard Drive (.VHD) I just accepted the default size of 16GB without thinking, but more
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Can you feel the love tonight... I just saw Menno's post and he's feeling sore because few people (myself included) have given him credit for all the hard work he has put in to build the CRM 3.0 and CRM 4.0 CTP3 demo images that we all know and love.
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La Donna E Mobile... Last week I got into a discussion with one of our partners about one of their clients who were running Microsoft CRM on VMware ESX Server 3 in their development and test environments. They were experiencing some performance issues
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Greetings all, a quick note of world cup reflection from an unbiased Australian perspective before we begin today's article (forgive me all Italian fans out there) but WE WERE ROBBED!!! :-) OK, now that is out of my system, here beginneth the article:
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Highway Star... Prompted by a question I was asked regarding one of my earlier postings, I thought I'd provide some information about how I prefer to set up networking when using Microsoft Virtual PC. The problems I want to solve are to: Provide Internet
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Size Of A Cow... One of the most common questions partners ask me is how can I install all the CRM components on a single Virtual PC image for development, test & demo purposes. At a minimum CRM Professional requires 3 Virtual PCs: Server 1: Windows
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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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