Microsoft Dynamics CRM UK Blog
CRM news and views from Simon Hutson
UK CRM User Group Meeting - 2nd December 2009
Steppin' Out (Concerto For A Rainy Day)... I can't believe how time has flown these last few months....
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/28/2009
SharePoint 2010 Information Now Public
Sláinte Mhath… We took the NDA off SharePoint Server 2010 at the SharePoint Conference 2009 this...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/20/2009
UKCRM Is Now Tweeting
Not Just For The Dead… Now that Menno has let the cat out of the bag regarding the new Microsoft...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 07/10/2009
Gartner & Forrester Analyst Reports
Strange Magic.... As part of my pre-sales work, I inevitably assemble a collection of customer-ready...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 07/04/2009
Closing An Incident (Case) That Has Open Activities
In The Lap Of The Gods… Every so often I come across a feature in CRM that makes me wonder...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 07/03/2009
Removing/Hiding CRM Folders In Outlook
Ministry of Lost Souls… A question came up recently from a customer who wanted to use the “Address...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 06/17/2009
Testing Both IFD & Windows Authentication
Deep In The Motherlode… As part of my development work I sometimes need to test applications using...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 06/17/2009
Update Rollup 4 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
The Glass Prison… I just did a quick scan of the latest downloads from...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 05/07/2009
Windows 7 & Virtual PC
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It… There’s been a lot of noise this week around the broad...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 05/07/2009
Virtual PC 2007 Performance Tweaks
Going For The One… I’ve been head-down working on closing out Q4 CRM deals here in the UK, but...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 05/07/2009
UK User Group Meeting - 26th March 2009
Kielbasa… It’s that time of year when I receive an e-mail from Rod Gordon at Gordon Associates...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 03/11/2009
Declining Personal Returns In Social Media
You Keep It All In… Time is indeed flying by in the Hutson household right now and I can’t believe...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 01/15/2009
CRM Developer Futures
Rockaria... I was browsing through the latest recorded content available on Channel9 (the Microsoft...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 11/20/2008
What's New In CRM5
Moonflower Lane... Now, before anyone from the CRM product team jumps in and accuses me of revealing...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 11/19/2008
UK User Group Meeting - 29th October 2008
Love Rears Its Ugly Head... I just received an e-mail from Rod Gordon at Gordon Associates letting...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 09/26/2008
Meet Abhijit Gore (CRM Program Manager) at Convergence
Superstition... Abhijit Gore contacted me yesterday to ask for some help arranging some 1:1...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 09/25/2008
September Catch-Up
Sometimes... It's been almost 8 weeks since my last post, and a lot has happened since then. Not...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 09/24/2008
CRM & Team Development Projects
Mississippi Moon... I just got back from Seattle, after spending a full week at TechReady7....
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 08/05/2008
Converting HTML E-mail To Plain Text
The Battle Of Evermore... OK, I admit it. I've caught the CRM development bug. What started as a...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 07/10/2008
Explaining CRM 4.0 System Requirements
Universally Speaking... Every so often I get asked why we only support certain versions and/or...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 07/09/2008
Creating A Debugger Visualizer For Dynamic Entities
Are You Gonna Be My Girl.... Over the last couple of months I've been spending quite a bit of time...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 07/08/2008
Automatically Set The Site In The Service Activity Form
Cold Day In Hell... I've been doing quite a bit of work with Service Scheduling lately, and one of...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 05/27/2008
Display KB Articles Your Way
Pseudo Silk Kimono... I don't know if it bothers anyone else, but it really bugs me the way KB...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 05/25/2008
Resizing A Virtual PC Hard Drive
Holy Diver... The other day I was working on one of my Virtual PC demo images, when I noticed I was...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 05/24/2008
Creating SharePoint Sites With CRM Workflow
Can I Play With Madness... Now that I have a custom site definition that incorporates a minimal...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 04/27/2008
Quick & Dirty CRM Date Change
Goodbye To Yesterday... Every so often I find I need to update various date fields in my CRM demo...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 04/24/2008
Minimal SharePoint Site Definition For Use With CRM
Go With The Flow... Following on from my previous post where I described how to define a minimal...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 04/23/2008
SharePoint 3.0 Document Libraries & CRM
Flood... Firstly let me appologise for not posting regularly these last few months. Work has been...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 04/11/2008
CRM 4.0 License Key Upgrade Matrix
Without You... In my earler post, I found we had changed the rules for upgrading CRM 4.0 Trial and...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 03/29/2008
Microsoft Dynamics Communities
Can You Feel It... Prompted by an e-mail from Robert Anderson, promoting his new website...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 01/25/2008
CRM 4.0 MSDN License Key Usage Change
Jackie Wilson Said... I upgraded one of my CRM 3.0 demo systems last week and used the CRM 4.0...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 01/24/2008
Microsoft CRM 4.0 UK Customer Launch Events
Subdivisions... We are holding two customer-only events to mark the launch of Microsoft Dynamics CRM...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 01/14/2008
Where Is Your CRM 4.0 License Key?
We Are Finding Who We Are... Not a week has gone past in the last couple of years where I haven't...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 01/14/2008
Download CRM 4.0 RTM Now
Comfortably Numb... So much CRM goodness in one day - now everyone can download the full version of...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/19/2007
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Internet Facing Deployment Scenarios
Pump It Up... A new document has been posted on the "Microsoft Download Center" describing how to...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/19/2007
CRM 4.0 Videos on Channel9
The Trooper... Just in case you hadn't see the other CRM blogs, there are 4 video interviews on...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/16/2007
CRM 4.0 Has Shipped
Aces High... I just spotted the short, but perfectly formed announcement on Michael Lu's blog here...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/16/2007
Who Builds Our VPC Imges?
Can you feel the love tonight... I just saw Menno's post and he's feeling sore because few people...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 11/01/2007
Global Readiness Tour Questions - Germany & UK
Get Back... It has been a really hectic couple of weeks. Last week was school half-term and I took a...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 11/01/2007
Update To Microsoft Dynamics Support Lifecycle
All That Jazz... I have been reading the news articles from our Convergence 2007 conference in...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/25/2007
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 & Unified Communications
Red Sector A... As you may know, I spend a little bit of time each week keeping up to date with...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/23/2007
Discussion: CRM Question of The Day
The Analog Kid... I just had a question posted via the contact form on my blog from Chitrarasan...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/23/2007
Current List of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Posts (Part 2)
Distant Early Warning... Following on from my previous post Current List of Microsoft Dynamics CRM...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/19/2007
Webcast: Custom Development on Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Malignant Narcissism... During my weekly browse for new CRM-related content around the web, I saw...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/19/2007
Microsoft CRM Support at Convergence EMEA
Keep Yourself Alive... I just heard that my good friends Iain McDonald (CRM Technical Lead) and...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/18/2007
Current List of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Posts (Part 1)
White Wedding... To make sure I didn't duplicate any information in my blog, I have been compiling a...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/12/2007