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Microsoft CRM 4 Rollup 9 Released
Check out the details here of what this rollup contains including files update here: http://ow.ly/16ouK Download the update here: http://ow.ly/16otX As with all updates, I highly recommend waiting a week or so before trying it in case of a recall and...
Posted: Feb 11 2010, 04:04 PM by Ross | with no comments
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Microsoft Releases Updated Implementation Guide 4.5.0
A new version of the IG has been released and can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1ceb5e01-de9f-48c0-8ce2-51633ebf4714 Here is the change summary: Summary of Documentation Revisions and Additions...
Posted: Oct 23 2009, 01:38 PM by Ross | with no comments
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Microsoft Releases Social Networking Accelerator
Microsoft has just released the social networking accelerator for CRM 4!  This highly anticipated accelerator was demoed at WPC earlier this year.  For more details about the accelerator, I recommend checking out Menno te Koppele’s blog about...
Posted: Oct 19 2009, 07:58 PM by Ross | with no comments
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CRM 4 Update Rollup 6 is now available
Microsoft released Update Rollup 6 yesterday. As always, I recommend waiting a few weeks for the dust to settle before deploying to your environments. Rollup 6 includes 971874 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971874/ ) Mobile Express for Microsoft Dynamics...
Posted: Aug 28 2009, 12:21 PM by Ross | with no comments
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Update Rollup 1 now available for CRM 4
Microsoft has released Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Server, Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Microsoft Office Outlook, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 E-mail Router. For more information about this release, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article...
Posted: Nov 25 2008, 04:33 AM by Ross | with no comments
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CRM Plugins in a 64-bit Environment
With the latest release of the CRM 4 Sdk ( 4.0.5 ) Microsoft has added 64-bit versions of the reference assemblies (Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.dll and Microsoft.Crm.SdkTypeProxy.dll) used in plugins. This has raised an issue for us because many of our clients...
Posted: Aug 07 2008, 10:44 AM by Ross | with 1 comment(s)
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Microsoft CRM 4.0 User Guide Now Available
Microsoft has released the user guide for CRM 4.0. The guide is editable allowing you to customize it on a client by client basis. You can download it in docx and pdf format here . Below are details pulled from the CRM team's blog . The Microsoft Dynamics...
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Implementation Guide (IG) 4.2.0 Available
Microsoft released an update to the IG yesterday. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1ceb5e01-de9f-48c0-8ce2-51633ebf4714&DisplayLang=en With this release they have added 3 new topics; Install Microsoft...
CRM 4 Data Migration Manager Readme
Microsoft posted an updated document on the Data Migration Manager ( DMM ).  I highly recommend reading this doc if you plan to use DMM.  It outlines many issues that DMM currently has and workarounds for those issues.  You can download...
Posted: May 03 2008, 04:04 PM by Ross | with no comments
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CRM 3 to 4 Upgrade Steps
Over at the CRM Team Blog, they posted a very detailed list of upgrade steps from CRM 3 to CRM 4.  The steps outline a lot of gotchas along the way.  You can view the post here 1. Upgrade SQL databases to SQL 2005 SP2 (if not already done) 2...
CRM 3 Rollup 3 Re-release Available
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 For those of you that don't know, the CRM 3 rollup 3 was pulled a short time ago. It has been re-released and is available for download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...
Posted: Apr 28 2008, 05:10 PM by Ross | with no comments
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CRM 3 to CRM 4 Metadata Privileges
Michael Höhne posted a very interesting article about CRM 3 not checking permissions on metadata calls and now checking in CRM 4. CRM 3.0 simply ignores the metadata privileges and all users can access the metadata, which I think is the correct approach...
Posted: Mar 06 2008, 03:06 PM by Ross | with no comments
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How to Change the Port on an Installed CRM
Recently I had to change the port on a CRM 4 install from 5555 to 80 and it wasn’t as easy as I expected it to be. Here’s the list of steps to follow to change over the port. Update the port in IIS Update the following Registry Keys ServerUrl LocalSdkPort...
Posted: Mar 01 2008, 12:08 AM by Ross | with no comments
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CRM 4 and Deploying Custom Code Follow-up
Back in January, I wrote a post about deploying code in a supported fashion in CRM4. You can check out that article here . From that post I received a question from Regan asking for more details on the proper way to do this. So today I'm going to follow...
Posted: Feb 29 2008, 11:28 PM by Ross | with no comments
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CRM 4 and Deploying Custom Code
I’ve had this question come up quite a few times since the release. So for anyone wondering how to deploy custom code in CRM 4 in a supported fashion , here it is taken directly from the Sdk documentation: Where Should You Put Custom Code? You should...
Posted: Jan 11 2008, 01:12 PM by Ross | with 2 comment(s)
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