Update Rollup 2 is available for Microsoft CRM 1.2

Update Rollup 2 is a tested, cumulative set of updates for Microsoft CRM Server 1.2, Microsoft CRM Sales for Outlook 1.2, and Microsoft CRM-Exchange E-mail Router 1.2, including performance enhancements, that are packaged together for easy deployment.Find more info here:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=904435Or download the package here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/

Microsoft Announces General Availability of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0

Microsoft has kept their promise and went GA today. The product is offered in a Professional Edition and a Small Business Edition, and is immediately available in English worldwide. Dutch, French, German and Russian versions of Microsoft CRM will be available Jan. 1, 2006, and 17 more language versions will be released in the coming months.Read the full press release here:http://www.microsoft.com

CRM v3.0 SDK Update

Hi all!For the programmers under us, you can now download an updated version of the SDK for CRM 3.0! A lot of bugs which were in the preliminary version are gone and they have extended this SDK with more comments and articles.Download the SDK here:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9C178B68-3A06-4898-BC83-BD14B74308C5&displaylang=enKind regards!

SRS and MSCRM (1.2) on 1 server

The people who have tried to install both SRS and MSCRM on the same server within the same website in IIS, they must know the message:Server Error in '/Reports' Application.---------------------------------------------------------------------------­-----Configuration ErrorDescription: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration filerequired to service this request. Please review

No fear for bad news anymore!

Do you ever fear telling bad news to your boss or client? Did you break the CRM implementation? You won't make the deadline? Soon you will not know fear anymore! Read this article on the newscientist and understand why :)

Want to be the MBS Chief? Go for it!

Microsoft is shuffeling with the positions on the top of the MBS practise. They are searching now for a new MBS Chief. So if this has been what you're dreaming about the last 5 years, then go and hunt for that position!Read more about this at microsoft watch

MS Dyn. CRM 3.0 on MSDN

For all of the developers who have access to MSDN subscriber downloads, I do have great news! The RTM version of MS Dynamics CRM 3.0 is ready to download!On MSDN there are 2 versions available:- CRM 3.0 Professional Edition- CRM 3.0 Small Business EditionThe MSDN licence keys are available in the keys section.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Has Arrived!!

David Thacher’s team did what nobody expected. They have gone RTM with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 yesterday already! Within about 2 weeks the bits will be provided for download and more information will follow really soon.But how could Microsoft go from beta to RTM in a week? Brad Wilson (GM, Microsoft CRM Business) anwers:Last week we announced the third drop of our Early Access program for

Finally there: CRM EAP Beta!

Update: You can download the Beta now yourself, if you are a registered partner.Good luck!!I do know that the www.mscrmearlyaccess.nl and the partner portal have not yet changed, but the private betaplace website has. It's only a matter of seconds before you can download the beta yourself. Keep watching http://www.mscrmearlyaccess.nl/ and the partner portal!!!Remember, it's a beta product and is

New blog in MSCRM world

Kevin Nazemi, Lead US Product Manager for Microsoft CRM, started a blog regarding MSCRM as well. He'll be able to give inside information, so I do expect lots and lots of good information here: http://blogs.technet.com/microsoftcrm/Kevin, welcome in the MSCRM blog world!

Welcome visitor nr 1000!

A short look on the statistics shows us that some seconds ago somebody from Austria has been the 1000th visitor on the blog. Since I do get a lot of feedback on my posts and the amount of visitors is raising day by day, I'll continue this way of providing interesting MS CRM information to the community.Stay tuned for more information!

Cme @ VS 2005 Product Launch Event

The 7th of November. This day there is the product launch of VS 2005, MSSQL 2005 and BizTalk 2006. A new era of product development will start this day. The Dutch developers can still sign in for this event.I'll be around there as well. Drop me a line if you want to drink a beer (heineken ofcourse!) or just for a chat.See you there!

SDK CRM v3.0 (Preliminary) public!

Via Arne Janning I received this link.You can download the priliminary SDK for MSCRM v3.0 here. There's a lot of interesting information in here.One of the most interesting images available is:(dont pay too much attention to the CRM 2005 sign :) )The orange area's are locations where you can insert own customizations. Here's a detailed list of features which are in line with the integration

Wordverification when commenting

Hi All,Today I've turned on word verfication for posting comments. What this does is to prevent automated systems from adding comments to this blog, since it takes a human being to read the word and pass this step. Quite often I am encountering comment spam. A lot of this is done automatically by software which can't pass the word verification, so thats why I set this option. Please do not let

Override save method

!unsupported alert!Unsupported, but this works :)I do sometimes get the question how it is possible to override the save method. You could dig into the javascript files or htc files, but following this solution is a lot better.You can modify the aspx file, which you want to change the behaviour of the save button. Insert this script into the file and you will get an alert before saving the file:<

Include Javascript files in CRM

This must be familiar to most of you: you're making quite some modifications to the onchange event of a picklist. To keep this readable, you do use tabs and breaks, but after saving this, all tabs and enters are gone. Therefore I like to put most code into .js files and include these files in the page. This would break the contract tough. Another possibility is the httpmodules, but they require

Introducing Microsoft CRM 3.0

Even though the public beta is not yet available, more and more information is being spread to the partners. Partners who can access https://partner.microsoft.com/ are able to view this information:Microsoft CRM 3.0 Press Release Microsoft announces the next version of its customer relationship management solution, Microsoft CRM 3.0. Microsoft CRM 3.0 will provide a complete suite of powerful

Microsoft CRM Cisco IPCC Enterprise Connector

Take a look at this! Vladimir Lichman just emailed me about a new product for MS CRM 1.2: Microsoft CRM Cisco IPCC Enterprise Connector. This application enables small and medium-sized businesses or empowered branch offices to fully tap the potential of both Microsoft and Cisco to provide a complete CRM solution. Its advanced feature set includes:- Legacy interface- Screen pop on incoming call-

"Please verify that you have enough Crystal licenses"

The error message "Please verify that you have enough Crystal licenses" is really awfull. This is some kind of general crystal error and probably does not have anything to do with licenses!I've had this myself and with me a lot of other people on the newsgroups. If you are experiencing the same, then you should take a look at the following kb articles. There are 12 possible resolutions for this

Incompatible database version

It happened to me several times by now that I get error messages related to an incompatible database version. Examples of error messages are:Error: Incorrect or incompatible database version. If you have applied any patches or hotfixes for Microsoft CRM, please apply them to this server as well.-2147467259 (0x80004005) Description: Unspecified Error.andThe version of cdf database you are

Microsoft seems to have started Start.com

Microsoft seems to have started Start.com. This site is a fully functional webbased rss reader. There is still the sign 'preview', but the links to start.com/1, start.com/2 and start.com/3 have disappeared. Start.com definately has the best look and feel compared to the competition of Google and Yahoo. Login to this website works with a .NET Passport. Take a look there and start reading the

CRM 3.0 early adopter program

Microsoft CRM 3.0 will soon be released. Before this release there are some early adopter projects. Microsoft has selected 20 partners for this program and Avanade is one of them! Avanade Netherlands will do this early adopter project together with Bouwfonds. I'm looking forward doing this project a lot.Too bad we are not allowed to say much, but I will post some interesting discoveries regarding

Advanced UI Customization

Joris Kalz wrote a truly amazing article on high quality CRM UI Customization, without breaking the supports contract with Microsoft.I couldn't believe that modifications like hiding tabs could be done on a supported way, but here is the proof:I have been checking how this is done and definately this is going to be my new standard for making modifications! Check the article here: Part II of

Enjoy the summer

Time for some Cme! Last week I've been doing some kind of a euro trip together with one of my friends Ed. Within 8 days we have visited:- Germany- Austria- Slovenia- Croatia- Italy- Swiss- France- Belgium- And ofcourse The Netherlands...The main goal of the holidays was to visit another friend, Walter. He's a travelguide in Croatia this summerholiday. Let's show you some picture we have made. You

Windows Vista

I thought I'm a geek, but you really should watch these guys. These are the real ones! Watch the Windows Longhorn Productname Launch Video.Anyway here's the logo which belongs to the new Windows version:

MS SQL Reporting Services Reports for MSCRM including basic security

Microsoft CRM is using Crystal Reports for reporting purposes. This works pretty fine as long as you do not want to modify reports or create your own reports. Crystal will then become very slow if you are working with thousands of records in your database. You could tweak Crystal, but instead, you could also take a look at MS SQL Reporting Services (SRS). Microsoft has released a report pack for

"Parser Error Message: Access is denied:

Every now and then I get this error message:Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately. Parser Error Message: Access is denied: 'MyWebApp'.Source Error:Line 198: This doesn't say much, but Harish Ranaganathan wrote a

Full-Text Search is not enabled for the current database

After using the redeployment tools it is sometimes not possible to search for KB articles in CRM. The error which shows up (either on the screen or in the event viewer) is:Full-Text Search is not enabled for the current database. Use sp_fulltext_database to enable full-text search for the database.Here is the resolution:Ensure that the Microsoft search service is running and set to start

Multi select box in MSCRM v1.2

The current controls which can be put on a CRM entity form are:- String- Integer- Float- Currency- Date/Time- Boolean- Picklist- Memo As you can see, there is no such option like a multi select box. Even within CRM you do sometimes need this. For example: Several contacts are receiving business gifts every now and then. You do not want the enduser to fill in which gifts they received in by hand,

Hello world!

How original!Starting the first post with a holy "Hello world".On the other hand, I'm also not the first one starting a blog. But I do think that I help other people with this blog. Here you will find information about CRM, C# and a little bit of myself. Feel free to contact me for clarification or whatever you would like to contact me for.See you soon again,Ronald Lemmen