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Way back when CRM 1.0 came out, we embraced email enabled queues as a key responding to our clients support requests. By replacing an email distribution list with a queue we eliminated the problems we often had where two or more people would start responding...
This just in. Microsoft has released its Daylight Savings Time update strategy for Microsoft CRM. If you thought you were all ready for the DST change that is happening in the US on Sunday March 11, 2007 think again! Give yourself time to digest the 27...
I've been struggling with how to standardize synchronization settings for the CRM Outlook clients at one of my customer sites. After playing around with scripts I decided to take a look at Group Policy. I am not expert on Group Policy but I was able to...
I've been doing a deep dive into the effects of the security model. I recently noticed that the UI does not support sharing of activities to users or teams. This came as an unfortunate surprise because I was planning on "sharing" to be my...
We recently updated our CRM solution for automatically creating recurring service cases. We use recurring service cases to automatically schedule items for our customers that have signed up for managed services or that are under some form of retainer...
We have been working on a project that requires harvesting data from a public facing web form. This is a pretty basic request but in the past we've only been asked to do this for lead capture and we have generally specified using the C360 web capture...
There are not many things that I don't like about MS CRM 3.0. But one item has recently jumped to the top of the list: Email support for custom entities. I can understand the difficulty in figuring out how to use an email address field in a custom entity...
We just completed a data migration from Act! 6.0 to Microsoft CRM 3.0. Rather than use a third party migration tool like Scribe we decided to use the recently released Microsoft CRM Data Migration Framework (DMF). The primary reason we opted to use the...
Thanks to SBS MVP Andy Goodman (AKA Handy Andy) for superb documentation of his CRM SBE install. If you are even thinking about installing CRM 3.0 SBE you need to review this: http://www.sbs-rocks.com/crm/crmsbeinstall.htm
I’ve been having problems with my CRM 3.0 SBE install on a SBS 2003 Premium install. Based on a lot of different posts in many different newgroups as well as some input form the Microsoft CRM team, I decided to try several installs under better...
It looks like there may be an issue with the RTM code (at least the download from MSDN) for Microsoft CRM 3.0 when installing on SBS 2003 Premium. If ISA 2004 is installed it does not appear to be possible to get a standard install to work because the...