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CRM 2011 – The Best Weekly CRM articles – March week 4

March 25, 2011

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The weekly articles which I have liked this week   Data templates and import wizards http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crm/archive/2011/03/21/data-templates-and-import-data-wizard-made-easier.aspx Reporting using BIDS http://inogic.blogspot.com/2011/03/reporting-through-bids-in-crm-online.html Is CRM really better than salesforce http://www.crmsoftwareblog.com/2011/03/is-dynamics-crm-2011-really-better-than-salesforce-com/ 5 minute walkthrough intergrating CRM and linkedin http://leontribe.blogspot.com/2011/03/five-minute-integration-between.html html rendering in an iFrame http://mileyja.blogspot.com/2011/03/set-html-rendered-within-iframe-in-crm.html transferring data between organisations http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crm/archive/2011/03/23/transferring-data-from-one-crm-organization-to-other-organization.aspx

CRM 2011 – Entities filter out null attributes

March 24, 2011

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I was looking at the CRM 2011 entity today.  I was having to search the entity attributes to find a the value of a variable/field. Initially when I did this the entity variable is ent ent.GetAttributeValue(fieldname); I was getting nothing I then did a count on the number of attributes in the entity ent.Attributes.Count it […]

Will we see Google Enter the CRM Market

March 24, 2011

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I have read a few articles recently wondering if Google will enter the CRM market.  In fact I expect to see more articles on the subject, mainly because some people would like to see it happen and others are concerned about it. If you want to read a couple of good articles on the subject […]

CRM 2011 – Importing/exporting data between organisations

March 24, 2011

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Today the Microsoft team blog had a really useful blog post.  It gave instructions on how to transfer information between organisations using exports and imports.  This is very useful for transferring data between test systems.  It is also useful to export the data to an excel file and then you can always import the data […]

CRM 2011 – Free 30 day trail – great way to demo to customers

March 23, 2011

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Microsoft are offering a free 30 day trial of CRM 2011 online.   This is a great way to not only demo to customers CRM 2011 but also to allow potential customers to sample CRM 2011 and quickly put some of their own data in and see if it can satisfy their needs for a […]

Remote Debugging in ASP.NET

March 23, 2011

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For the 70-515 .NET 4 web certification there is a chapter on debugging your web projects.  This is a pretty useful thing to know about.  In fact the last chapter I read was about setting up profiles in web sites/web applications which I also found quite useful. I have never really done any remote debugging […]

CRM 2011 – Stopping pops ups CRM 2011 and CRM 4

March 16, 2011

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I read this article today – IE9 Tabs instead of New Windows for CRM 2011, I have had a few users of CRM who have complained about the number of windows they can soon have up on their screen, sometimes you can easily get 8 screens open and then you spend ages opening all the screens trying […]

CRM 4 – Can’t assign FilterExpresion it’s read only!

March 16, 2011

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I am up to my eyes in workflows today and I was trying to do a query to retrieve some items, so I had to refresh myself how to do it in CRM 4.  I thought I would try the sample code and when I pasted it a bit in, I got this error Error: […]

one day left of free Sharepoint 2010 training

March 15, 2011

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There is one day left of the free Sharepoint training All you have to do is register and the training is free http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukisvdev/archive/2011/02/10/free-three-days-of-online-sharepoint-2010-developer-training-march-14th-to-16th.aspx it looks to have some interesting topics, day 3 has some information about web services and workflows Day 3 (Live Meeting 3 hours) 1:30 – 4:30 •         Client Object Model: The Client […]

CRM 2011 Tool – Jscript Soap Request Formatter

March 15, 2011

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This blog seems to be the head of the Jamie Miley appreciation club this week and marvelous Miley has done it again today by releasing the CRM 2011 Jscript Soap Request Formatter. Firstly you can read about it on his blog from his latest blog post here.  You can also download the tool at codeplex […]