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Marketing Lists – Newly Discovered Attributes
Today’s guest blogger is Jerry Weinstock who is the Business Development Manager at CRM Innovation a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. CRM Innovation builds functional enhancements and codeless solutions for Dynamics CRM 4.0. There are many attributes that come with the CRM system. Most of them have been published on the forms from the get go -
Best practices for refreshing a Microsoft Dynamics CRM test environment
Today’s guest blogger is CRM MVP Joel Lindstrom, a Solutions Consultant for CustomerEffective. For high availability Microsoft Dynamics CRM deployments, it is recommended that you have additional environments for test, Dev, and QA, so you can manage changes to your configuration without impacting users. This is also a good idea for disaster recovery, so if -
How to Configure Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 E-mail Router (On-Premise) with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Update Rollup 8 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM E-mail Router (On-Premise) includes support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. In continuation to the blog titled “Configure Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online E-mail Router with Exchange Online”, this one explains the detailed steps required to setup Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 E-mail Router (On-Premise) with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 On-Premise -
Using the Microsoft Translator inside Microsoft Dynamics CRM v4
This customization is designed to call the ‘Microsoft® Translator’ service from within CRM. This example uses a custom button, included in an entity form, to call the service and translate text (which has been selected by the user) into another language. This document describes the steps required to include the custom button on a form, -
Tips & Tricks: Displaying Contact Images in Microsoft Dynamics CRM
In another of our guest blog series, CRM MVP Jürgen Beck provides a developer’s view demonstrating out customizable Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 is. This post is provided “AS IS” with no warranties and confer no rights. You assume all risk for your use. Wouldn’t it be nice to see some pictures of your customer when -
Announcing IDC Top 10 Global Manufacturing Predictions Webcast Series
Leading industry analyst IDC is kicking-off a series of manufacturing webcasts starting in January 2010 where they will be presenting their latest findings and where you can learn about global IT investment... -
Data Wizard: Using field delimiters characters in data source files
The enhanced Import Data wizard released in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online November 2009 Service Update supports different formats of input source data file such as XML Spreadsheet 2003 (.xml), Comma-separated values (.csv), Text (.txt) and compressed files (.zip). If input source data is in Text/CSV-formatted files then field and data delimiter characters play very important -
Capturing and Analysing SQL Queries in CRM Implementations
Our CRM MVP guest blogger for today is David Jennaway who is the technical director at Excitation. I’ve recently been involved in analyzing and resolving performance issues in several Dynamics CRM implementations. Different issues have had different root causes; this post is focused on those where the root causes lie with SQL Server. My intentions -
Data Templates Make Importing Data Easy
This blog entry aims at familiarizing you with Templates for data Import which are available amongst other new features including a powerful Import Data Wizard in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online November 2009 Service Update. These templates serves as a very good start point for importing data without requiring mapping effort from the user as templates -
CRM Data connector
Microsoft Dynamics CRM handles all the reports with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SRS). SRS is a separate application that you can install on a different server than SQL Server or the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server if desired. Microsoft Dynamics CRM then connects to SRS by using the Reporting Services URL, as specified during installation. -
Arrival overview
Introduction In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, the Arrival overview form is introduced to improve the overview of items expected to arrive as incoming goods. The new feature provides an overview of all expected incoming items and arrivals can be initialized based on the overview. The focus of this blog post is the functionality of the