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CRM 2011 – Articles, documents and videos on setting up IFD for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011
A customer asked me to investigate what is involved in setting up IFD (Internet Facing Deployment) for CRM 2011 so I have looked on the internet for the best articles, videos and documents on the subject. There are five main parts into configuring IFD Installing AD FS 2.0 Configuring the AD FS 2.0 federation server […]
Warning – Certified and Gold Certified partners, your Microsoft partner logo and software usage rights ends today – October 31, 2011
October 31, 2011
I read this blog post today which was on the Microsoft Partner email (yes I do actually read them!!) and I saw today is the last day you can use the Microsoft Gold Partner logo Microsoft says this Continue to use Gold Certified and Certified logos in their marketing materials until October 31, 2011 and […]
CRM 2011 – White Paper – Deploying Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and CRM Online Solutions from Development through Test and Production Environments
October 28, 2011
Microsoft released an interesting new white paper recently which goes into detail about deploying and testing CRM 2011 in product and test environments. You can download the white paper here I wasn’t sure what to expect from the white paper but it was intrigueing because it used good examples and went in detail about how […]
removing newline and other special characters from a string
October 28, 2011
If you are a regular follower of my blog you will have no doubt worked out I am doing some development over the last week and have been wrestling with various problems. Today I found one of my columns had special characters such as Newline, carrage return etc and I wanted to remove them. In […]
How to convert an SQL statement into a XML file
October 27, 2011
Today I found some functionality which I thought was amazing and will save me loads of time creating some sample XML files to test my webservice with. I had some sample data in database which I wanted to convert into an XML file. My original idea was to use excel to concatenate bits of it […]
Visual Studio Default Code Snippets
October 27, 2011
Today I was creating a class with lots of variables and I was originally using the refactor method to generate getters and setters. In the end I got bored and thought there must be a quicker way. I knew about code snippets but hadn’t really used them To use the code snippet for creating a […]
Visual Studio Keyboard shortcuts poster
October 27, 2011
I was trying to figure out some shortcuts in Visual Studio 2010 and then I came across this page and then I find out the visual studio team create a very useful poster, hazaar you can download the poster here, in fact they have posters for all their languages. They are A4 in size and […]
CRM 2011 book – Introduction to CRM: Sales and Marketing
October 26, 2011
An interesting book publishing by Accolade publishing about CRM, it’s called Introduction to CRM: Sales and Marketing, you can read more about the book here This is certainly an area where customers could do with something to give them a headstart on the topic. Often customers know they want to improve in the area of […]
A Summary Syntax Difference between CRM2011 and CRM4.0
October 26, 2011
There are a lot of differences between CRM versions CRM 4 and CRM 2011. It can take you a while to get use to the changes but after an initial period of confusion I think you will find the changes have dramatically improved developing CRM extensions. Javascript changes were the most tricky to get my […]
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About the Hosk
I'm a Dynamics CRM Developer - Consultant based in Birmingham, UK.
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CRM 4.0 Applications
CRM 4.0 Customization and Configuration
CRM 4.0 Installation and Deployment
CRM 4.0 Extending Microsoft Dynamics
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