Upcoming Webinar - Learn about Microsoft's solutions for Enterprise Vertical Devices, Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded CE

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 6:28 PM von http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2010/03/10/upcoming-webinar-learn-about-microsoft-s-solutions-for-enterprise-vertical-devices-windows-mobile-and-windows-embedded-ce.aspx
The Windows Embedded and Windows Mobile teams have finalized the transition of the enterprise vertical device business to Windows Embedded. Microsoft is committed to this market and with this transition will have one organization focusing on the enterprise...(read more)

My Fav Spell Checker - ieSpell

Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 5:56 PM von http://blogs.msdn.com/jim_glass/archive/2010/03/09/a-spell-checker-for-the-masses.aspx
My favorite spell checker for my Internet Explorer browser is called ieSpell and it’s available for free. I have installed it on all the computers I use. I use it on Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and the Dynamics forums; anyplace you have a text box you can right-click and check your spelling. Here’s their spiel: ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for us...

Nominate Your Company for WPC 2010 Partner Awards

Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 5:46 PM von http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2010/03/09/nominate-your-company-for-wpc-2010-partner-awards.aspx
The conference gala is certainly here. The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 2010) is coming to Washington, D.C. this year on July 11-15, 2010. If you are building some great solutions on Microsoft technologies, make sure you nominate your organization...(read more)

Dashboards Made Easy With Reporting Services

Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 1:29 PM von http://blogs.msdn.com/ukcrm/archive/2010/03/09/dashboards-made-easy-with-reporting-services.aspx
All Over The World… I don’t know about you, but I have always struggled with our dashboard story in CRM 4.0. It’s not that we don’t have plenty of dashboard capabilities, with solutions such as the Analytics Accelerator that we provide free of charge...(read more)

Power Your Sales With CRM That Really Works!

Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 1:57 AM von http://microsoft-crm-au.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!4D66C5AE1389F5D8!1452.entry
Check out the new site for sales leaders in Australia to learn more about how Dynamics CRM together with other Microsoft software can drive better outcomes for sales organisation large and small… The new site is here: http://www.microsoft.com/australia/dynamics/sales/  On the site, sales leaders can take an online assessment to compare their sales organisation to others as well as explore case studies, download white papers, get a 30 day trial of hosted CRM or find out about upcoming seminars ...

Top Ten Reasons to go to Convergence this Year

Monday, March 08, 2010 - 6:29 PM von http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2010/03/08/top-ten-reasons-to-go-to-convergence-this-year.aspx
I was thinking about this over the weekend and decided to share some of my ideas and insights with you. So here is my top ten list of reasons to attend Convergence 2010 : 10 – Atlanta is a cool place to visit. 9 – Southern food/hospitality can’t be beat....(read more)

More Microsoft Stories

Monday, March 08, 2010 - 5:41 PM von http://blogs.msdn.com/jim_glass/archive/2010/03/08/more-microsoft-stories.aspx
When something breaks at Microsoft, the employees have been known to be both vocal and ‘helpful’ in providing guidance to the maintenance crew. Last week the coffee maker on the 3rd floor of Advanta broke and the ‘guidance’ started appearing. First one observer thought the water source had been turned down and then another helpful comments suspected a blockage in the water line. By time the maintenance folks got to the machine, there were almost ten post-its on the faulty machine. Me, I just s...

The Hohm Integration SDK

Friday, March 05, 2010 - 8:43 PM von http://blogs.msdn.com/mikemill/archive/2010/03/05/the-hohm-integration-sdk.aspx
I’ve had a number of requests recently about integration at the B2B level with Microsoft Hohm. These range from the “how does it work” to “have you thought about X”, so I thought I’d put some of that information here for now. Before I go into any detail on the SDK, I just want to make it clear that this isn’t the Hohm Device SDK that’s been talked about and was recently announced. Stay tuned for more details on that as I’m able to talk about it. The integration SDK is used for linking customer e...

Get Ready for Convergence 2010

Friday, March 05, 2010 - 8:04 PM von http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2010/03/05/get-ready-for-convergence-2010.aspx
Convergence 2010 , the premier Microsoft Dynamics conference is here shortly (April 24-27) and this year the event is organized a little differently, beginning on a weekend and with a virtual partner day. If you are thinking about attending Convergence...(read more)

Cool Video: Microsoft on Cloud Computing

Friday, March 05, 2010 - 5:09 PM von http://blogs.msdn.com/jim_glass/archive/2010/03/05/cool-video-microsoft-on-cloud-computing.aspx
Steve Ballmer talks at the University of Washington about Microsoft’s cloud computing strategy. Can you define ‘cloud computing’? tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; tweetmeme_source = 'MSdynamicsCRM';

CRM Online Signup: Adding User Names

Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 10:03 PM von http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2010/03/04/crm-online-signup-adding-user-names.aspx
We recently discovered that in the current CRM Online signup there were cases where our default scenario did not work as planned. When the user enters his/her Windows Live ID (WLID), the first name and last name of the signup account for the new organization...(read more)

CRM MVP Curtis Plays the Blues

Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 5:15 PM von http://blogs.msdn.com/jim_glass/archive/2010/03/04/crm-mvp-curtis-plays-the-blues.aspx
At the Microsoft MVP Global Summit this year, someone caught Curtis Spanburgh doin’ his thang. I wish we’d caught him on video when he sat in with the combo for a couple of songs at the CRM Team Dinner event. ";" alt=""> tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; tweetmeme_source = 'MSdynamicsCRM';

Making The Move to 64-bit Demos

Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 6:36 PM von http://blogs.msdn.com/ukcrm/archive/2010/03/03/making-the-move-to-64-bit-demos.aspx
Do Ya… This week Alexander “Monty” Montgomery (not the famous Jazz pianist Monty Alexander ) joined my team, replacing Craig Steere (a former South African) who decided he wanted good weather back in his life and is now working for Microsoft in Australia....(read more)

Resonance

Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 1:16 PM von http://blog.philiprichardson.org/2010/03/03/resonance/
Joel Spolsky’s latest Inc column really resonated with me. As the months fly by I find it harder and harder to find the desire to engage in public discourse. When I worked for Microsoft on CRM it just felt natural. There was information which I had that others wished to consume. At the blogging was ‘going [...]

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partners with Deutsche Post in Germany

Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - 4:29 PM von http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2010/03/02/microsoft-dynamics-crm-partners-with-deutsche-post-in-germany.aspx
If you read German you may have caught some exciting news coming from Bonn, Germany and directly from CeBIT (Hanover). Microsoft and Deutsche Post   announced a strategic marketing partnership for hosted CRM services that enables businesses to access...(read more)

J.D. Meyer: Getting Results the Agile Way

Monday, March 01, 2010 - 9:39 PM von http://blogs.msdn.com/jim_glass/archive/2010/03/01/j-d-meyer-getting-results-the-agile-way.aspx
From our man J.D. Meier, Principal Program Manager on the Microsoft Patterns & Practices team: “Are you getting results? …” Over Christmas break, I committed to finishing the writing for a book that I expect to change a lot of people’s lives. It’s my first non-technical book. The working title is, Getting Results the Agile Way. It’s all about getting results in work and life. It’s the playbook I wish somebody had given me long ago for finding work/life balance, managing time, playing to my ...

Working with System Views and Related Entities

Monday, March 01, 2010 - 7:07 PM von http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2010/03/01/working-with-system-views-and-related-entities.aspx
Views allows you to display data in Microsoft Dynamics CRM in a customized manner, designed for the way you work. Creating them is easy and only requires a few clicks. The types of views include system and personal. Each entity has different system views...(read more)

Today February 27, 2010 -> 6 years ago . . .

Saturday, February 27, 2010 - 7:34 PM von http://blogs.msdn.com/jonasd/archive/2010/02/27/6-years-ago.aspx
I remember this test very well. It was one of the first MS CRM certificate rounds and the questions where harder to understand than the test itself... Time goes fast when you have fun, right J

Using CRM workflow to overcome laziness, I mean, become more efficient

Friday, February 26, 2010 - 7:24 PM von http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2010/02/26/using-crm-workflow-to-overcome-laziness-i-mean-become-more-efficient.aspx
CRM MVP Mitch Milam returns as our guest blogger today to talk about one of the most power features of CRM. You can read more from Mitch on his blog . CRM workflow can be used for all sorts of interesting things and can sometimes help you do your job...(read more)

TechNet 2.0 Rollout

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 6:00 PM von http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2010/02/24/technet-2-0-rollout.aspx
I’ve been following Keith Combs’ Blahg , Ramblings from another nerd on the grid , and especially the posts about the rollout of the all-new TechNet 2.0. The first in the on-going series is TechNet 2.0 Is Coming – Join the Conversation . Here’s an excerpt...(read more)