Microsoft Dynamics CRM UK Blog
CRM news and views from Simon Hutson
Getting started with Microsoft MapPoint and Microsoft CRM 3.0...Continued
Pour Some Sugar On Me... It's taken a while, but I have finally got round to finishing my MapPoint...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 05/04/2006
Microsoft CRM Product Team Blog
Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic... Finally some order has come to the "chaotic" world of Microsoft CRM...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 05/03/2006
Large Scale CRM Customer Deployments & Scalability Benchmarks
The Myth of Fingerprints... I've noticed that many large corporate and enterprise customers are...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 04/26/2006
Not All CRM Source Media is Created Equal
Incommunicado... One of my partners hit a problem the other day when they tried to add a second,...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 04/26/2006
How to Obtain Microsoft CRM 3.0 Professional Edition for Service Providers
The ConstruKction of Light... Several people have asked me how they get access to the hosted...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 04/11/2006
Important Microsoft CRM Announcements
Master of Puppets... This month has been pretty hectic, but today we have just made a number of...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 03/27/2006
Dynamics Webcasts are like busses...
Gentle On My Mind... ...you wait ages and five come along at once. Ok, so we have just come to the...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 03/27/2006
Volume Licensing for beginners
Cochise... When we launched Microsoft CRM 3.0 back in December 2005, we changed the way customers...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 03/11/2006
Microsoft CRM 3.0 Downloads, Tools & Whitepapers
Operation Mindcrime... The CRM product team have been really busy producing tools, whitepaper and...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 03/10/2006
Utility to create Active Directory users for CRM Bulk Mail testing
Ring Of Fire... I've been working with a number of our new CRM partners over the last couple of...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 03/10/2006
Blog postings and song titles
Word Up... It wasn't long before someone made a comment about my use of song titles for blog...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 02/25/2006
Getting down with Excel 2007
The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret... I've been keeping up to date with new developments in the 2007...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 02/25/2006
Visual Studio Tools for Office and Microsoft CRM
Groove Machine... We just announced the release of four new snap-in programs available at the new...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 02/22/2006
Webcasts from the Microsoft Dynamics product teams
Black Hole Sun... I haven't had too much time to watch many technology-related webcasts, and those I...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 02/21/2006
Microsoft CRM 3.0 integration with Windows Desktop Search
Pull Me Under... Joris has just posted updated version of his Windows Desktop Seach Integration for...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 02/21/2006
Getting started with Microsoft MapPoint and Microsoft CRM 3.0
Tie Your Mother Down... I am in the process of developing a number of CRM 3.0 customisations and...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 02/21/2006
Microsoft CRM 3.0 product licence keys
Monkey Wrench... After speaking with the rest of the UK CRM team and some of our CRM support folks,...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 02/15/2006
Microsoft CRM 3.0 integration with Microsoft Dynamics GP
YYZ... I was just browsing my colleague Ben Vollmer's CRM blog and I spotted his article on the...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 02/15/2006
Microsoft CRM 3.0 Downloads, Tools & Whitepapers
Buck Rogers... We have recently published a slew of useful CRM-related stuff on microsoft.com, so to...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 02/15/2006
Updated version of the Microsoft CRM 3.0 SDK
I Predict A Riot... Just a quick post to let you know that the CRM SDK v3.0.3 is now available for...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 02/01/2006
Introduction to Microsoft CRM 3.0 and Microsoft BizTalk Server
Wichita Lineman... A few of my CRM partners have asked how to connect Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 01/30/2006
Creating a single Virtual PC image for Microsoft CRM 3.0
Size Of A Cow... One of the most common questions partners ask me is how can I install all the CRM...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 01/18/2006
An early look at Commerce Server 2006
Bright Side Of The Road... Some of you may already know that I try and watch at least one...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 01/03/2006
Microsoft CRM 3.0 setup error and TCP/IP ephemeral ports
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go... Although most installations of CRM 3.0 succeed with the minimum of...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/27/2005
Microsoft CRM 3.0 custom entities vs. customising system entities
So Here It Is, Merry Christmas... One of my team's CRM requirements is to track both customers and...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/25/2005
Microsoft CRM 3.0 on-premise and hosted offerings
Help... So, I guess many of you have heard about the problems affecting Salesforce.com last week. If...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/23/2005
Microsoft CRM 3.0 demo Virtual PC image available for download
Wired For Sound... We have just made a Virtual PC image available for download which contains a...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/21/2005
Impersonation, Delegation and Kerberos for Microsoft CRM 3.0
Who Are You.... I was taking my weekly look at Microsoft Downloads for any new CRM-related stuff,...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/19/2005
Getting ready for Hosted Microsoft CRM 3.0
Take Me Home, Country Road... From January 2006, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 will be available...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/16/2005
Installing Microsoft CRM 3.0 at Microsoft (Part III)
Wuthering Heights... Although I used an unattended setup file, I still chose to step through each of...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/14/2005
Microsoft CRM 1.x Support Lifecycle
Don't Stop Me Now... Now that we have launched Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, many customers and...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/14/2005
Installing Microsoft CRM 3.0 at Microsoft (Part II)
Babooshka... Now that I have my 4 servers, fully patched and added to the Microsoft corporate...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/07/2005
Installing Microsoft CRM 3.0 at Microsoft (Part I)
Hounds of Love... In order to understand what it is really like for our customers and partners to...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/07/2005
Dynamic Entities and Microsoft CRM 3.0
Mr Blue Sky... I just saw that Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie (the Microsoft CRM Program Manager responsible...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/06/2005
Microsoft CRM 3.0 Downloads, Tools & Whitepapers
Down, Down, Deeper and Down... There are a number of Microsoft CRM 3.0 resources available for...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/06/2005
Introduction To My Blog
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised... OK, so maybe it's not quite as exciting as UK launch of the...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/06/2005