Microsoft Dynamics CRM UK Blog

What's New In CRM5 (Slight Return)

Simon Hutson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:43:00 GMT

Naomi's Solar Pumpkin… It has been a full year since we got our first glimpse of CRM5 (the catchy codename for the next version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM) at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) 2008, and a lot has changed since then....(read more)

UK Dynamics CRM Customer Clinic

Simon Hutson — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:02:00 GMT

Desert Rose… I was chatting with Tom Brookes (UK Partner Technology Specialist for Microsoft Dynamics CRM) about his Q&A slot at the upcoming UK CRM User Group meeting on Wednesday 2nd December. I suggested it might be a good idea to extend this by...(read more)

Why ISVs Should Build On Microsoft Dynamics

Simon Hutson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:16:00 GMT

High Landrons… Having just posted details about the Microsoft BizSpark programme for start-up ISVs, I received an email from John O’Donnell (US Dynamics ISV team) to tell me about a series of webinars running between Monday 7th and Friday 11th December....(read more)

Have You Heard Of BizSpark?

Simon Hutson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:53:00 GMT

All England’s Eyes… …No? Me neither until this week. “ BizSpark provides fast and easy access to Microsoft tools and technologies, for their immediate use in design, development, testing, demonstration, and hosted application production and deployment.”...(read more)

SharePoint 2010 Training Available

Simon Hutson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:13:00 GMT

Don’t Wake The Lion… As a follow-up to my previous post regarding SharePoint 2010, I just saw that we published more than 20 modules of free-to-access webcasts regarding SharePoint & Office development here: Office 2010 Workshop SharePoint 2010 Developer...(read more)

UK CRM User Group Meeting - 2nd December 2009

Simon Hutson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:49:00 GMT

Steppin' Out (Concerto For A Rainy Day)... I can't believe how time has flown these last few months. It seemed like just the other day that Rod Gordon ( Gordon Associates ) was holding the last UK CRM User Group , when in fact it was back in March. Well,...(read more)

SharePoint 2010 Information Now Public

Simon Hutson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:56:00 GMT

Sláinte Mhath… We took the NDA off SharePoint Server 2010 at the SharePoint Conference 2009 this week. There are some great new capabilities, but my personal favourites are: SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel and SharePoint – Formerly codenamed “Gemini”,...(read more)

UKCRM Is Now Tweeting

Simon Hutson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:34:00 GMT

Not Just For The Dead… Now that Menno has let the cat out of the bag regarding the new Microsoft Dynamics CRM Accelerator for Social Media , I thought I would create my very own twitter account as an extension of my blog for those times when I just don’t...(read more)

Gartner & Forrester Analyst Reports

Simon Hutson — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:09:00 GMT

Strange Magic.... As part of my pre-sales work, I inevitably assemble a collection of customer-ready presentations and whitepapers that I can use to help support the business case for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Analyst reports from the likes of Gartner and...(read more)

Closing An Incident (Case) That Has Open Activities

Simon Hutson — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:47:00 GMT

In The Lap Of The Gods… Every so often I come across a feature in CRM that makes me wonder “why was it designed like that?”. The one that catches me out almost every time I demo is the inability to close or cancel a incident when there are associated...(read more)

Removing/Hiding CRM Folders In Outlook

Simon Hutson — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:32:00 GMT

Ministry of Lost Souls… A question came up recently from a customer who wanted to use the “Address Book”, “Task/Contact/Calendar Synchronisation” and “Track In CRM” functionality from the CRM Outlook Client, but avoid using the CRM navigation folder and...(read more)

Testing Both IFD & Windows Authentication

Simon Hutson — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:24:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Update Rollup 4 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Simon Hutson — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:13:00 GMT

The Glass Prison… I just did a quick scan of the latest downloads from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads and noticed that the CRM team have just released Update Rollup 4 for CRM 4.0 which you can download from here . It’s good to see that we are sticking...(read more)

Windows 7 & Virtual PC

Simon Hutson — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:27:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Virtual PC 2007 Performance Tweaks

Simon Hutson — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:54:00 GMT

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...(read more)