Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff
Information surrounding technologies that I work with at Microsoft
Besides the glaring omission of not listing my blog on this list (he he just kidding J ) Jaag posted...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 07/14/2008
I'm wiping out my machines and getting them ready to install W2K8 and Hyper-V. The reason? On the...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 07/09/2008
Have you ever built a query that retrieves information from CRM using our built-in Web Service? If...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 07/02/2008
Next week the Worldwide Partner Conference is happening in Houston and a lot of fun and exciting...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 07/02/2008
Did you know that the built-in reporting wizard actually supports M:M relationships? I was surprised...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 06/16/2008
I’m about to fly back to Redmond after attending and speaking @ TechEd Orlando 2008. It was a...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 06/05/2008
Where have I been these days? Buried in my office :) Well, buried in the CRM's team building pushing...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 05/29/2008
Anybody out there has any cool sample of SilverLight Apps talking to CRM? If you dazzle me I'll...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 05/09/2008
Let me throw a question...If your were to have one feature (in the customizations space) that you...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 04/29/2008
It is now official, CRM online is in "open access" mode. It feels great to share the pride of...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 04/23/2008
At Microsoft, professionals (non-Microsoft employees) that make a significant impact within a given...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 04/18/2008
With CRM4, you have two ways of getting customizations into your system: Import/Export of...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 04/15/2008
Today I asked my wife, what do you think a nice topic would be for a blog post? Her answer: The...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 04/10/2008
With the CRM 4.0 enhancements to the plug-in and workflow engine as well as the introduction of the...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 04/02/2008
Philip just released his updated tool to keep track of customization versions in CRM 4.0...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 03/31/2008
Q: Can the max length of CRM attributes be increased (e.g. increase the capacity of a text field...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 03/26/2008
I've seen plenty of question regarding the "sharing" of OOB views functionality that is no longer...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 03/12/2008
As I’m sure most of you do, I have a subscription to Wired magazine and every time I receive it I...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 03/11/2008
Did you notice that CRM 4.0 now validates data at the platform level? Well, it does :). Here are a...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 03/01/2008
It’s been a while now that I've been having conversations with a couple of team members about a side...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 02/26/2008
Well, it’s been a while since I wrote my last post... I've been laser focused on CRM5 planning.......
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 02/22/2008
If there is one post-RTM frequent request that I've seen around is the ability to manage data...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 02/10/2008
Relationships in CRM 4.0 are quite powerful but hard to understand at first. There are so many...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 02/06/2008
Ajith has just published an enhanced sample plug-in registration tool. It provides a lot more...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 02/01/2008
Quite a few people have asked us if it is possible to export customization from CRM 3.0 and import...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 01/29/2008
For CRM 4.0, our Data Management Team introduced several APIs that allow you to bulk edit records in...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 01/28/2008
I’ve seen plenty of people, some of them IT pros, that still have unclear what multi-tenancy is...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 01/24/2008
Many of you have been wondering how to programatically create new tenants (organizations) in a...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 01/22/2008
I’ve received a fair amount of inquiries about how to do a Silverlight Screencast so I decided that...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 01/11/2008
For those of you that are wondering about UC “presence” on CRM 4.0 · Presence did make it to RTM...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 01/10/2008
I was recently reading a blog post about Amazon's Web Services and I must say I was surprised with...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 01/09/2008
Video presented on BillyG farewell @ CES... hilarious!...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 01/09/2008
When you try to upload a customizations file (xml or zipped) into CRM 4.0 RTM and get the message:...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 01/04/2008
Well, with CRM 4.0 out the door and a couple of days off I had a chance to update my old...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 01/03/2008
I've recently became a video game fan (yet again since I spent numerous hours playing Street Fighter...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 12/23/2007
Have those of you with access to CRM4 RC0 tried to import customizations into RTM? Give it a try......
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 12/19/2007
Most of you should already know by now but we RTM last Friday! We proudly got CRM4, formerly...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 12/17/2007
Often times you will hear from Microsofties reference the “product team”. That term has different...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 12/17/2007
If you are a competitor and are looking for terrible things a Microsoft Employee said against his...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 11/30/2007
If you are wondering what entities are eligible for which types of relationships, wonder no more,...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 11/16/2007
You got to admit that these devices are so much better (than the previous version of course he he)....
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 11/15/2007
I wonder, is all the Buzz around social networking justified? Besides tageting the consumer market,...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 11/07/2007
I posted a couple of month back a sample that illustrates integration between dynamics CRM (3.0) and...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 10/31/2007
I've seen an extraordinay amount of news and posts about our next CRM release. Lots of buzz around...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 10/25/2007
In my first post in this blog I want to show a screencast of a small, not so discoverable, yet...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 10/23/2007