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