Microsoft Dynamics CRM UK Blog
CRM news and views from Simon Hutson
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Tidbits - Reporting Architecture
Papa's Got A Brand New Bag... Because CRM 3.0 was an Intranet only application, we could make...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/11/2007
Microsoft CRM 4.0 Beta Available For Partners
Pity The Child... Thanks to everyone who sent me details about the Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 (VPC)...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/10/2007
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Tidbits - Advanced Events
I Walk The Line... With CRM 3.0 we had a pretty robust model for building custom business logic...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/08/2007
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Screencast - Duplicate Detection
Two Minutes To Midnight... Another 2 minutes demo recorded by the CRM guru himself, Philip...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/05/2007
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Screencast - Data Import
Bend And Break... If you want to see what the new data import functionality looks like in CRM 4.0,...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/04/2007
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Developer Training For ISVs
Sweet Talkin' Woman... I just spoke with Michael McClary from our DPE (Developer & Platform...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/04/2007
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Tidbits - Event Architecture
Girls On Film... One of the biggest area of investments in CRM 4.0 is the complete re-design of the...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/02/2007
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Tidbits - Duplicate Record Detection
Bring Back That Leroy Brown... Although not a substitute for full master data management...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/01/2007
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Tidbits - Multi-Lingual UI
Forsaken... It is widely known that Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 supports MUI (Multi-Lingual User...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/01/2007
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Tidbits - Entity Relationships
Long Train Running... It's October 1st, which means the NDA gloves are off for Microsoft Dynamics...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/01/2007
New Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Book
Truckdriver Divorce... Thanks to Jibram Ali in our UK CRM support team for pointing me to details of...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 09/20/2007
New Microsoft CRM 3.0 Service Scheduling Whitepapers
La Villa Strangiato... You may remember Craig Steere's post on a real-world service scheduling...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 09/20/2007
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Partner Readiness Launch
Return Of The Son Of Shoogagoogagunga... OK, so it looks like the cat is out of the bag - the...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 09/20/2007
Deploying Microsoft CRM @ Microsoft
Shine A Little Love... I get into regular discussion with partners and clients about what we doing...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 09/18/2007
More Microsoft CRM Data Validation
Cabo Wabo... After hitting the submit button on my previous post, I just read an e-mail from Ian...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 09/17/2007
Microsoft CRM & Virtualization
La Donna E Mobile... Last week I got into a discussion with one of our partners about one of their...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 09/17/2007
The Ultimate Steal
Stuck In The Middle With You... Although this is not Microsoft CRM related, I just saw today that...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 09/17/2007
Microsoft CRM UK User Group Meeting - 15th October 2007
You Really Got Me... I just got an e-mail from Reuben (Microsoft CRM Partner Tchnology Specialist)...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 08/22/2007
Back Once Again
Return Of The Mack... Firstly let me appologise for my four month absence, I do have some good...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 08/03/2007
Definitive List of Microsoft CRM Blogs
Death On Two Legs... If you are looking for a complete list of bloggers for Microsoft CRM, then look...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 04/08/2007
New Booklet: Working With Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Get It On... A couple of months ago the CRM product team started work on a new 84-page CRM booklet...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 04/04/2007
Microsoft CRM UK User Group
Flight Of Icarus... I just heard from Phil Cross, who manages our IT Professional programmes (such...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 03/28/2007
Interesting Thoughts on SalesForce.com
Back Street Symphony... As a rule I don't go in for badmouthing other software companies, especially...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 03/27/2007
CRM Live At Convergence 2007
Know Your Enemy... I just finished watching Steve Ballmer's keynote speech from Convergence 2007,...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 03/20/2007
Microsoft Dynamics RSS Feed For UK Partners
Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence... OK, no sooner had I posted yesterday about the Global Dynamics...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 03/13/2007
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Instant Update Screensaver
God Put A Smile Upon My Face... I came across this new resource for Microsoft Dynamics partners on...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 03/12/2007
Monitoring Microsoft CRM with Microsoft Operations Manager
In Between Days... I was just working through my backlog of e-mail today, when I can across an...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 03/07/2007
How to Demonstrate Microsoft CRM
You're All I Have... Ever since the release of CRM 3.0 back in December 2005, the UK Microsoft...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 03/07/2007
Microsoft CRM 'Titan" CTP Nominations
Exodus... We recently announced that we are previewing the next major release of Microsoft Dynamics...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 01/25/2007
Architecture In A Multi-Tenant World
Take Your Mamma... As many of you know, the next version of Microsoft CRM (codename Titan) is...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/21/2006
Microsoft CRM 3.0 Client Refresh Released
Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine... Good news always travels fast, and as many of my fellow CRM bloggers...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 12/21/2006
Additional Information Regarding CRM 3.0 Refresh for Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 R2
Pink Bubbles Go Ape... As you have probably read here on the CRM product team blog, a refresh of CRM...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/26/2006
Craig Steere's Guest Spot: Microsoft CRM Real World Service Scheduling
Whole Lotta Love... There appears to be very little information about the capabilities of Microsoft...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/24/2006
Social Networks & CRM
Knowing Me, Knowing You... I just finished watching a great webcast on Channel9 (the Microsoft...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/18/2006
Microsoft CRM 3.0 Client Compatibility Release for Vista & Office 2007
I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor... Back in May, I wrote that our sustained engineering (SE)...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/18/2006
Microsoft CRM 3.0 Adapter for BizTalk Server 2006
Out In The Fields... The news that many of you have been waiting a long time for is now here. You...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 10/02/2006
Phil Rawlinson's Guest Spot: Microsoft Dynamics CRM UK Partner Roadshows
Good Times, Bad Times... This is your chance to come and meet the Partner Technology Specialists and...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 09/26/2006
Microsoft CRM 3.0 Support Lifecycle
Surfing Down The Avalanche... By way of follow up to my December 2005 post Microsoft CRM 1.x Support...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 08/17/2006
Microsoft CRM Support for SQL Server Named Instances
Junior's Gone Wild... Every so often a I get a question regarding CRM support for SQL Server named...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 08/17/2006
Microsoft CRM Live SaaS (Software as a Service)
The Long and Winding Road... I just can't believe it's been 2 months since I last posted an entry....
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 08/17/2006
Microsoft CRM 3.0 Updates and Hotfixes
She's Not There... If, like me, you find it difficult to find a complete list of Hotfixes for...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 06/14/2006
Reuben Krippner's Guest Spot: Greetings from your new Australian CRM connection!
Charlotte The Harlot... As it might have appeared that I am in fact a phantom, I thought it...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 06/08/2006
You Need A Plan! You Need An Architect!
Greasy Kid's Stuff... I just came across a new community site dedicated to I.T. architects, and all...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 05/29/2006
Virtual PC Networking For CRM Images
Highway Star... Prompted by a question I was asked regarding one of my earlier postings, I thought...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 05/26/2006
Large Scale CRM Customer Deployments & Scalability Benchmarks...Continued
It's The End Of The World As We Know It... As a follow up to my previous posting on this subject, we...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 05/17/2006
Upcoming SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Webcasts for May & June
Perhaps Vampires Is A Bit Stron But... I just saw an announcement on Susan's blog of a 6-part series...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 05/08/2006
Microsoft CRM 3.0 Support for Windows Vista & Office 2007
For Those About To Rock, We Salute You... At our Convergence 2006 conference in March, we talked...
Author: Simon Hutson Date: 05/07/2006