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Business Intelligence

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• Jul 13 Fri


Advanced Metadata Service Scenarios

crmbest writes "If you want to create real dynamic applications not relying on the WSDL you get at compile time, you have to use both the DynamicEntity class and the metadata service....This gives you a list of the attributes you have to specify....However the above does not include the attributes that are marked as business required. So here’s the same to get a list of attributes that “should” be set:"

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• Jul 11 Wed


Report Localization through Parameters

Brian Welcker writes "As localization is not a built-in feature for Reporting Services, people have tried a a variety of techniques for localizing reports....Here is an relatively easy technique for providing localized reports using hidden parameters....This function will find the translated label within the supplied multi-valued parameter. If the label is not found, the passed in value is returned. This is important as you may have a user language for which you have not created the translations."

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• Jul 10 Tue


Very nice Dashboards built on the Adventure Works CRM

Ben Vollmer writes "While I have seen some VERY nice Dashboards for Microsoft CRM, I thought that Scott over at BridgeBuilder did a killer job with these...."

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• Jul 5 Thu


Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog : An Easy Way to Detect Duplicates in a Given Data Set

crmbest writes "Many a times we end up in lots of duplicate data in our systems like CRM, and when it becomes difficult to detect the duplicates and clean them up. This blog describes a very simple way to detect duplicates in data without any rocket science knowledge. This process of finding duplicates is not only for CRM data, but any data which can be copied/exported in excel sheet. For CRM, you can retrieve all records "

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• May 3 Thu


CRM 4.0 will use Windows Workflow

Chris Auld writes "Sitting in a session at mix and they have confirmed that CRM 4.0 will use Windows Workflow Foundation to manage workflow."

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• Apr 30 Mon


IT Pro Townhall mtg - next generation of Web and you, the IT Pro

Rodney R. Fournier writes "....IT Pro Townhall event. We were not allowed to take pictures, so I don't have any of those, but we could take notes. Here are my random notes and thoughts:"

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Why Silverlight Matters for AX and CRM

Brandon George writes "....Well this part of the future user interface for Dynamics AX and CRM. This is part of the Web / Enterprise 2.0. This gives a user RIA, or Rich Interactive Application experince over the web. So this is a Very important peice for someone who implements Dynamics AX / CRM."

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• Apr 26 Thu


Elements changed between versions of Dynamics AX

writes "...the download links were not functioning on that page. MS has modified the download links. Now you can download the files."

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• Apr 25 Wed


Feedback requested on training content for CRM

Ben Vollmer writes "Now is your chance to voice your opinion on the “What’s New” training content and help us improve your learning experience. The Microsoft Dynamics Global Training team wants to hear your feedback on the delta training between product releases."

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• Apr 24 Tue


How to create transparent forms in Dynamics Ax

Kamal Akannan writes "You can adjust the opacity of a form to make it partially transparent. One good example of such a form is the EventAttentionGrabber."

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Dealing with the double hop in SQL Authentication

Ted Malone writes "For whatever reason, Microsoft® has chosen to not fully integrate Analysis Services and Kerberos out of the box....The steps to configure Analysis Services to utilize Kerberos are detailed in Microsoft KB Article 917409.... a quick overview of the process is:"

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Higher Server Processing Load impacts NUMA Architectures

Ted Malone writes "....how SQL Server 2005 handles Non Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) and how DBAs should really understand NUMA architectures on "high end" systems."

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• Apr 18 Wed


CRM & Bulk-tracking old e-mails

crmbest writes "You can use the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Outlook client to track emails one at a time using the “Track” button.... Users who take advantage of the CRM Exchange router to automatically track received emails should already have a forward rule deployed to their mailbox. This rule, when viewed in Outlook, should look like as follows:"

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Integrating Explorer Files and Folders into CRM Tabs

crmbest writes "A number of CRM developers have developed solutions that integrate SharePoint document stores into CRM. The solution detailed in this article is a twist on that concept that will enable you to integrate Windows Explorer instead of a SharePoint document store in order to view context-sensitive shared folders and files directly within CRM."

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CRM and Allowing Large Attachments

crmbest writes "Large attachments are blocked by default by Microsoft Dynamics CRM for security reasons. To allow large attachments, you need to configure IIS to accept large amounts of streamed data. This allows HTTP connections to remain for longer"

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• Apr 12 Thu


Handy Dynamics AX Excel Import Utility

writes "I had created a small utility in AX for one of the implementations which gave the user the facility to upload data from custom excel templates....The beauty is that before importing the data, it was possible to see the data, see errors and their causes and then import / post a journal in this case. It was really handy."

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• Apr 11 Wed


CRM Security Internals and DBAs

Brian Kelley writes "CRM is an interesting application for DBAs because it does use row-level security. It's a bit more complex than most row-level security models in that there are access checks and privilege checks. Access checks can be overridden but privilege checks cannot."

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• Mar 30 Fri


CRM SDK ver. 3.0.6 Released

crmbest writes "Announcing an update to the Microsoft CRM 3.0 SDK! Download version 3.0.6 of the SDK to get new and updated sample code, topic enhancements, and bug fixes. Here are a few of the changes you’ll find in this version:"

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Make your Mark: The IT Deregulation Act

Gianpaolo Carraro writes "Of course, there is no such thing as the IT Deregulation Act, but when you think about it; it could make a lot of sense....not necessarily interested in booting all enterprise software out, but rather implementing hybrid architectures....The concept of deregulated IT is still very raw in my mind, but what do you think? Would a Deregulated IT Architecture Best Practices white paper make sense? Feel free to jump in and start a discussion, I think this is a very prolific ground for innovation."

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• Mar 23 Fri


How to create custom HTML for CRM

crmbest writes "The following mini-tutorial shows a basic technique to achieve the above in CRM 3.0. Included in this post is a zip file containing the files mentioned here. The sample code is at the"

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