New Microsoft CRM VPC?
Hi Guys,
Right now I am working together with Ben Vollmer and Michael Rich to create a new Microsoft Dynamics CRM VPC, since the old one is going to expire in the near future. The new base Microsoft CRM V3C image is going to be built with Windows Server 2003 R2, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 in combination with Microsoft Office 2007. I am curious what you guys would like to see in this new image. Please drop suggestions, code examples, tips and tricks in the comment area!
Disclaimer: This does NOT mean that every comment is going to be applied in the new Virtual PC image, but we will do our best.
Update: Read the details for the upcoming image here https://blogs.msdn.com/mscrmfreak/archive/2007/06/12/new-microsoft-dynamics-crm-vpc-update.aspx
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Anonymous
April 18, 2007
CRM SDK for developer would also be usefulAnonymous
April 18, 2007
How about including the business connector for external SQL access?Anonymous
April 18, 2007
How about implementing more of the things that are displayed in the CRM team blog and what about the covergence/channel 9 map demo?Anonymous
April 18, 2007
Maybe outside the scope of what you are doing but....GP & GP Connector..."Better Together"!Anonymous
April 18, 2007
Keep the comments coming guys, thus far we have 4. Please explain as detailed as possible what you want to see. Would love to see code examples as well.Anonymous
April 18, 2007
I would love to see an example of hirarchial picklish example. Also some smar way of managing picklist would be better. Integration with live maps would be wonderful. More later. Dave BanerjeeAnonymous
April 18, 2007
Running off Vista. Its great to show the CRM gadgets to new customers.Anonymous
April 18, 2007
How about Mappoint integration to show som cool integration possibilities?Anonymous
April 18, 2007
Windows SharePoint Services would be nice... one could demonstrate the List Webpart or the recently published example how to integrate file system objects within a CRM tab.Anonymous
April 18, 2007
MOSS and the CRM Analytics pack would be goodAnonymous
April 18, 2007
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April 18, 2007
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April 18, 2007
How about including the CRM Analytics pack with Excel Services and BSM. Also a richer customer self service portal would be usefull.Anonymous
April 19, 2007
the current vpc image won't run on my vista notebook with 2 gig of RAM, it comes up about 200M short. Lets make sure that we have a version that will run in this hardware configuration. thanks.Anonymous
April 19, 2007
Something that shows folks how to get started with the SDK would be nice.Anonymous
April 19, 2007
Address validation web services, map integration and sharepoint integration are all huge and should be included to show the extensibility. I would also like to see the Analytics foundation implemented to show the reporting power, especially the predictive analytics for up-sell capability. Incorporating the ability to launch the SNAP word proposal from the Quote or Order screen populated based on that entities values would demo nice.Anonymous
April 19, 2007
SNAPs and of course CRM Analytics and SharepointServices.Anonymous
April 19, 2007
Caching Tool from Joris Kalz would be great.Anonymous
April 19, 2007
Laptop Client and the Mobile Express Client would per perfect!Anonymous
April 19, 2007
Laptop Client and the Mobile Express Client would be perfect!Anonymous
April 20, 2007
I would suggest we make it easy to demonstrate different roles removing the domainadministrator. EG - Outside Sales, Inside Sales, Sales Manager, VP of Sales/Mkt and CEO(Analytics). We are always asked to do this so our partners are customizing every demo leveraging our base VPC image. It would also be good to incorporate ISV solutions so that we can demonstrate key industry functionality if necessary.Anonymous
April 20, 2007
Lets try to make sure the reports have some data behind them. There is nothing worse then showing the cool account overview report and not having upcoming activities or any cases against it. Same with campaign performance report, its great when it has data to show.Anonymous
April 20, 2007
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April 22, 2007
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April 22, 2007
Hi Menno, Guess most of us use the demo environment for developing', so basically you would need as less as possible. Other interesting features should be available, but optional to install. I think its nicer to install things yourself, then try to uninstall features you don't need. If you install all possible options, the image would need a lot of gigs..Anonymous
April 23, 2007
Sorry for the wrong addressing. There was a laptopversion installed and they changed a dllfile (mapi32.dll) in order to let it work. But after an uninstallation (to localize), the exact environment couldn't be recreated easily. So we had to install the desktopversion instead.Anonymous
April 23, 2007
SNAP, CRM Analytics, MOSS integration. Is there any Office Communication Server 2007 integration available?Anonymous
April 24, 2007
Please add the nice CRM to Sharepoint document library. Everyone wants to see it and has heard about it. Is this VPC more as a sales tool or a development tool. I think that will change how it is designed and what is put on it.Anonymous
April 24, 2007
I also read about about SilverLight today - is there anythying we can do to showcase this? Also - I'm frequently asked to show "pop-up" screens based on certain criteria - today we do this with workflow and items end up on the 'activities' screen. It would be great to showcase sales process via pop-ups - for example - a call comes into inside sales - they create a quote and a pop-up message identifies cross-sell, upsell opportunities - or flags the customer as not satisfied and we need to offer a discount to make up for poor cust sat in the past.Anonymous
April 24, 2007
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April 25, 2007
BizTalk Server 2006 and SharePoint would be great.Anonymous
May 06, 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/jim_glass/archive/2007/04/19/microsoft-dynamics-crm-vpc-redux.aspxAnonymous
May 06, 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/crmnorway/archive/2007/04/24/har-du-inspel-till-den-nya-demo-vpcn-p-microsoft-crm.aspxAnonymous
May 07, 2007
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May 07, 2007
Please design it with future integration with the GP9 and/or GP10 demos in mind.Anonymous
May 11, 2007
Create more KPI's within the sharepoint console for the prospects to see. The graphs are nice, however we need more KPI releated data showing the health of the business. Take a look at NetSuite Dashboards, the KPI data they display on each dashboard is invaluable. We need more of this.Anonymous
May 14, 2007
Any updates on the MS CRM VPC being released any time soon?Anonymous
May 18, 2007
I dont know if it makes a difference. A lot of people complain about the performance of the VPC. One thing I noticed is that the .LDF log file for the database is 1.6 G when you unpack the image. Maybe do a shrink on the log file before shipping. This could be adding to the performance hit people experience.Anonymous
May 21, 2007
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June 04, 2007
Any approximate eta or deadline you have on this?Anonymous
June 08, 2007
Old one will expire on 6/30. Anybody have an update on what to do? We need to be able to use the old one until Ben and Michael are ready. Any updates or point me in the right direction would help. -thanks.Anonymous
June 08, 2007
I'm an ISV and I use this as a basis for building a demo of our ISV product. I would like a version with just the standard Microsoft products installed, without all the sample data and all the sample extras. I would like Microsoft CRM V3C, Outlook client, Windows Server 2003 R2, Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, Office 2007 Enterprise (for MOSS and Office Comm Server integration), Sharepoint Portal Server 2007 / MOSS, BizTalk. Tuning for performance is important. Since our ISV extensions are extensive, we already expect to need to run it on a laptop with 4GB of RAM. Ability to demo Outlook client in Vista would be nice but that might need to be another Vista VPC image in the same AD domain - unless you can make Windows Server run Aero, or unless I can run Outlook on my host Vista machine and connect to CRM in the VPC image.Anonymous
June 08, 2007
While a new version could have its benefits and I have posted my desires above, it will take time to add our ISV customizations and demo scenario setup info into a new version and get it distributed to our sales staff and channel partners. Is it possible to extend the expiration date of the current VPC so that we have time to make the transition? Or can I just set the clock back in the VPC image to make it last longer?Anonymous
June 08, 2007
Walter, I must correct you! Michael is doing the legal stuff and I made the image, not Ben. We will have the image ready in a few weeks from now.Anonymous
June 11, 2007
I can now proudly announce that we will have the new Microsoft Dynamics CRM VPC available for downloadAnonymous
July 02, 2007
Looks like download is broken. I downloaded these but had problem extracting them. Now it seems like these have been pulled out from website. When these will be posted again? Thanks.Anonymous
August 01, 2007
How about allowing the removal of all data?