April 2009 - Posts

US States Picklists Values
How many times have you had to make a picklist for the US states on a CRM 4.0 form? Well, rather than having to manually add each of the 50 states (52 if you count DC and Puerto Rico), I've got an XML file pre-made with the values of the US States...
New Demonstration VPC for CRM 4.0
Microsoft has released a new demonstration VPC image for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. The image is built using SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, and is available on PartnerSource . It is set to expire in August 2010. Happy demo'ing! Read More...
Posted: Apr 19 2009, 05:59 PM by ICU MSCRM
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Agent Communications Panel for CRM - Call Center Functionality Using OCS
Microsoft recently released the "Agent Communications Panel for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0" which provides an out-of-the-box integration with Office Communications Server for call center functionality within CRM. " The Agent Communications...
Posted: Apr 17 2009, 11:44 AM by ICU MSCRM
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Error Importing Customizations
On a development environment where I had imported a new organization, the developer was getting an error when trying to import customizations from another system (both on Update Rollup 3), and was unable to publish any customizations either. On importing...
Re-Awarded MVP for CRM
Got the email today notifying me that I was re-awarded MVP status for CRM! This makes it 4 years running. I'm extremely grateful to Microsoft and the CRM community - it's been an incredible experience working with CRM and getting to know a lot...
Posted: Apr 01 2009, 09:24 AM by ICU MSCRM
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