Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff
Information surrounding technologies that I work with at Microsoft
CRM Links
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
The role of virtualization on CRM vNext development
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
Linq2Crm
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
WPC 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
N:N (M:M) relationships and reports
Did you know that the built-in reporting wizard actually supports M:M relationships? I was surprised...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 06/16/2008
TechEd Developers 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
My Whereabouts These Days
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
Silverlight Samples
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
CRM++ Customizations
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
CRM online... online :)
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
CRM MVPs rock!
At Microsoft, professionals (non-Microsoft employees) that make a significant impact within a given...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 04/18/2008
Import Export or the Metadata API?
With CRM4, you have two ways of getting customizations into your system: Import/Export of...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 04/15/2008
Seattle's Weather
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
Plug-in or Workflow?
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
Versioning Customizations in CRM 4.0
Philip just released his updated tool to keep track of customization versions in CRM 4.0...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 03/31/2008
Increasing the length of CRM attributes
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
Where did the "share views" functionality go?
I've seen plenty of question regarding the "sharing" of OOB views functionality that is no longer...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 03/12/2008
Wired articles...free and signals
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
CRM 4.0: Platform Validations
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
Metadata Reporting
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
Playing with IFD
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
Managing Offline data filters
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
CRM 4.0 Relationships Explained
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
Plug-in registration tool 2.0
Ajith has just published an enhanced sample plug-in registration tool. It provides a lot more...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 02/01/2008
Export/import customizations from 3.0 to 4.0?
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
How to: Bulk edit CRM 4.0
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
Multi-tenancy explained
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
The Deployment Service
Many of you have been wondering how to programatically create new tenants (organizations) in a...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 01/22/2008
How to: Silverlight Streaming
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
CRM 4.0 "Presence"
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
The Holy Grail of Computing… the “Platform”
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
Never doubt the magic of software... that's right... listen to chuwaka :)
Video presented on BillyG farewell @ CES... hilarious!...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 01/09/2008
Validating CRM 4.0 Customizations Files
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
CRM 4.0: Silverlight Demo Update
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
CRM, "The game"
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
Importing RC0 customizations into RTM
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
CRM 4 RTM!
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
The “Product” Team
Often times you will hear from Microsofties reference the “product team”. That term has different...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 12/17/2007
What I don’t like about Titan (CRM4)
If you are a competitor and are looking for terrible things a Microsoft Employee said against his...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 11/30/2007
Relationships eligibility in Titan (CRM 4)
If you are wondering what entities are eligible for which types of relationships, wonder no more,...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 11/16/2007
New Zunes
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
The social networking Buzz
I wonder, is all the Buzz around social networking justified? Besides tageting the consumer market,...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 11/07/2007
CRM and Silverlight sample update
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
Do you think you have heard all about Titan
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
The first of, hopefully, many to come. Titan Features
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