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July 05

CRM 5 - Secure Code on the Server from Channel 9

In this video on channel 9  Andy Bybee (Principal Program Manager Lead), Allen Hafezipour (Senior Program Manager) and Nirav Shah (Senior Dev Lead) Andy Bybee (Principal Program Manager Lead), Allen Hafezipour (Senior Program Manager) and Nirav Shah (Senior Dev Lead) are talking with Ben Riga about how the CRM 5 improves the security of code by basiclly implementing the following :
  • 1st layer is .NET code access security
  • then using Windows security: putting code within its own machine and isolating access to databases or machine services
  • and finally for multi-tenant environment preventing one tenant’s code from touching the data or code from another tenant

 

 

Triggering CRM 4.0 workflows using Javascript

While I was reading some articles I came across this article that explains how you can use Javascript for triggering CRM 4.0 workflows, I knew about this feature long time ago but I haven't had the time to write down in an article so here it is
 
 
Enjoy :)

Microsoft CRM 5.0 new features

we waited too long for Microsoft to release some of the info about the new features in CRM 5.0 and finally they did :)
Here's what they planned for CRM 5.0:
  1. Better Office integration – particularly Outlook and Office 14
  2. Ribbon UI – easy to find features
  3. Streamlined UI – less pop-ups and clicks to complete common tasks
  4. Improved personalisation – including views
  5. SharePoint integration for document management
  6. Improved BI – simple data visualisation for everyone
  7. Workload management – for users
  8. Contact/Account management – hierarchy and relationship visualisation
  9. Team-based collaboration – including team selling
  10. Call centre and unified communications enhancement
  11. Improved knowledge management
  12. Extended outbound marketing – including attachments on email templates
  13. Recurring activities
  14. Data auditing
  15. Extended use of Windows Workflow Foundation
  16. Reusable and dynamic picklists
  17. Streamlined management of multi-tenanted environments
  18. Improved virtualisaiton with Server 2008
  19. Improved data management and BI with SQL 2008
  20. Updated BizTalk adapter
  21. Self service portal for the users (it was one of the accelerators launched on www.codeplex.com)

and you can also check them in details from UK CRM Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/ukcrm/archive/2008/11/10/what-s-new-in-crm5.aspx

 

June 18

The word breaker for language 1025 is not installed

if you were upgrading from Microsoft CRM 3.0 to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and while the pre-requisite checks, you recieved the following error:

"The word breaker for language 1025 is not installed"

Reason:
Most probably that is because you don't have the mentioned language installed on your server

Solution:

  1. Run the installation program 
  2. Install Complex Script components – open up Regional Settings, click on the Languages tab, and select Install files for complex script and right to left languages.

 

4. Open SQL Server Management Studio and run the following command in a New Query window on the master DB:

exec sp_fulltext_service 'update_languages';
select * from sys.fulltext_languages
Make sure that your language appears in the result as lcid and name

May 31

Business Intelligence future on top of Business Solutions

Business Solutions and Business Intelligence are both two of the most booming and popular LOBs in the IT Industry and the merge between them is inevitable and expected and of course that happened on different levels and with different tools but there were always the problem of the presentation of the data to the business users and the analysts at the front end but Infusion, Microsoft Golden Partner has created a Data Anlaysis Platform on top of Microsoft Surface and it pulls data from multiple hetrogenous data sources and represent in an easy and visualized way for the audience, check the Video below and you will understand what I mean.

We at LINK Development and specifically at the Business Solutions Team started to investigate in such technology and started to build our own Business Intelligence Platfrom on top of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and customers will be able to deploy easier on top of Microsoft Surface Table  or any other touch Screens to be able to interact with it and also it will be available to normal PCs.

  

May 27

My first CodePlex Project "Microsoft CRM Tools"

I've created my first CodePlex Project named "Microsoft CRM Tools" that contains different tools thier sole purpose is to help CRM developers easily delivering CRM solutions in a timely manner.
 
 
 
February 17

Mobile Express for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Preview version

Microsoft launched Mobile Express for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Preview version, check below…

http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2009/02/16/preview-mobile-express-for-microsoft-dynamics-crm-4-0.aspx

February 12

Converting Microsoft Dynamics CRM Picklist values into XML format

A very big problem encounters us when the business solutions consultant or a developer working on a CRM implementation wants to insert values in a Picklist and this number of values was around two or three that wouldn’t be a problem but when you have a list of values exceed 2000 items it would be a problem to insert them all, so I took a web tool that I found on this blog and I enhanced it and I converted it to an exe application so you can easily download it and the source code and edit in it

Download the converter from here

January 24

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007 (Data Mining Add-ins) allow you take advantage of SQL Server 2005 predictive analytics in Office Excel 2007 and Office Visio 2007. The download includes the following components:

  • Table Analysis Tools for Excel: This add-in provides easy-to-use tasks that leverage SQL Server 2005 Data Mining to perform powerful analytics on your spreadsheet data.
  • Data Mining Client for Excel: This add-in allows you to go through the full data mining model development lifecycle within Excel 2007 using either your spreadsheet data or external data accessible through your SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services instance.
  • Data Mining Templates for Visio: This add-in allows you to render and share your mining models as annotatable Visio 2007 drawings.

 

Download from here

Download Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3

Download Microsoft SQL Server 2005 service pack 3 from here
 
To check what's New in the new Service pack , Read this
 

Karim Moussa

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Working as Business Solutions Technical Consultant at LINK Development, Microsoft Golden Partner in Egypt
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