Ich halte zwar das bisherige PaaS-Konzeptfür leistungsfähiger, in der harten Realität des IT-Alltags kann jedoch nur selten eine Anwendung neu oder auch nur teilweise umgeschrieben werden. Doch das ist meistens erforderlich, wenn man die Vorteile der Skalierbarkeit und der Kosteneinsparung im PaaS-Betrieb einer Anwendung erzielen möchte.

Zukünftig ermöglicht Microsoft nun den Betrieb von „beliebigen“ virtuellen Maschinen in den Rechenzentren von Microsoft und zwar in einem Betriebsmodell, das häufig mit Infrastruktur as a Service(IaaS) bezeichnet wird.

Jetzt weiterlesen: Windows Azure Virtual Machines

Während Windows Azure bisher ein sogenanntes Plattform as a Service (PaaS) Modell unterstützte, so ermöglichen die kommenden Services den Betrieb von bereits bestehenden Anwendungen, die ursprünglich nicht für den Cloud-Betrieb vorgesehen waren. Damit lassen sich beispielsweise klassische Server-Anwendungen wie Microsoft SQL Server oder auch SharePoint und beliebige weitere Anwendungen in der auf Windows Azure betreiben.

Jetzt weiterlesen: https://blog.kalz.net/windows-azure-blog/ankundigung-der-neuen-windows-azure-services

Doppelklick für den Vollbildmodus

Initiated by the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Engineering for Enterprise Team a new document has been released, which shows the different techniques you can use to further improve the performance of Microsoft Dynamics CRM by using SQL Server 2008. In summary, the results of the testing efforts demonstrate that the SQL 2008 features like Compression, Filtered Indexes, Sparse Columns, Backup Compression can significantly improve the application performance of both SQL Server 2008 and Dynamics CRM 4.0 while resulting in space savings. Download the document here:

Improving Microsoft Dynamics CRM Performance and Securing Data with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

For quite a while now we have heard Microsoft talk about the next shift in the software industry and we have called it our Software + Services (S+S) strategy, also known simply as cloud computing.

And today, chief software architect Ray Ozzie announced Windows Azure, a cloud operating system that serves as the development and run-time environment for the Azure Services Platform. While this is definitely interesting in itself, I would like to point out, that Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online will be part of the Azure Services Platform.

This leads Microsoft to a very unique position compared to other competitors in the CRM space. Unlike them, we are offering Microsoft Dynamics CRM on-premise and we have a service offering with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, but also we offer a complete service platform that allows developers to create any type of application and they don't have to stay within the boundaries of CRM-related applications.

If you are interested in cloud computing and why this is related to Microsoft Dynamics CRM I highly recommend you to watch the on-demand webcast of the PDC keynote (750kbps).

More interesting stuff:
Windows Azura Videos:
https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure/
https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Steve-Marx-Windows-Azure-for-Developers/

Other links:
Azure for web developers, Azure for corporate developers, Azure for ISV, Azure for system, integrators, Azure for business, Windows Azure

The code is pretty straight forward, so feel free to modify. You can download the VS 2008 project here: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Jscript Export Tool

Before you start this tool, you have to change the app.config according to your CRM installation:

After running the tool, all client side jscript will be stored at the declared output folder.

The result will be a list of all entities containing jscript separated by event type and further by form and field events.

Hopefully you like this tool. In the final stage of this tool, it will be even possible to write changes back to Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

The base language is English and the following language packs are already installed: German, French, Danish and Dutch, However, you can easily add other language packs by downloading them here. Beside the basic infrastructure components the image contains Microsoft Office Professional 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Performance Point Server and Microsoft Office Communication Server to help you to demo the overall Microsoft value proposition.

But please keep in mind: Much more important than just a good demo platform are your skills to prepare and execute a software demo. There is fortunately a good book, which explains the art of demonstrating software in a very impressive way. By using the right demoing methods and by avoiding common pitfalls you can easily improve the quality of your software demonstrations and win more customers.

Learn more about this great book at amazon: Demonstrating to Win!

Best regards from Whistler

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 SDK download package has been updated.  Version 4.0.1 includes several important changes: 

• The Plug-in walkthrough in the CHM has been updated to match the readme that is included in the SDK\Walkthroughs folder.
• The Readme file in the SDK\tools\deployworkflowtool folder has been corrected.
• Additional sample code has been added in the Scripting Sample Code topic.
• New content has been added to the URL Addressable Forms topic.