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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 will only support 64-bit architecture. What is your CRM 4.0 server(s) architecture?

Vladislav Osmanov — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:51:22 +0000

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 – Feature Videos

Vladislav Osmanov — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:38:16 +0000

Microsoft has already introduced a documentation pack and videos for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.

And then partners come up - since today Sonoma Partners will publish one new video each day for 2 weeks.

The video highlights will include:

Dashboards
Charts
Ribbon UI
Conditional Formatting in Outlook
Form Enhancements part 1 (Embedded Grids, SharePoint Integration)
Form Enhancements part 2 (Role-based forms, Form Navigation)
Filters/Views
Dialogs
Auditing
Connections

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Beta is now available for download

Vladislav Osmanov — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:58:07 +0000

Well, as soon as I have gone on vacation, as Microsoft released a beta-version of the CRM 2011.

At the same time was launched a promo site with video presentations: http://crm2011beta.com/.

Download the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Beta

Do you plan to upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011?

Vladislav Osmanov — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:17:24 +0000

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 - Taking the Covers Off of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 5 - keynotes from WPC 2010

Vladislav Osmanov — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:13:13 +0000

I have already written about the features of the next version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM and now you can learn more about it - Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 Microsoft officially took the covers off of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 5. The keynotes were disclosed in Dynamics section.

"CRM5" is now officially Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.

10+ ways to create reports in Microsoft Dynamics CRM - Summary

Vladislav Osmanov — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:59:50 +0000

Comparison matrix of the most common ways to create reports in Microsoft Dynamics CRM considered earlier. Approaches are grouped for convenience. Move the cursor on results to view the description.

	Ease of use	Capabilities	Costs
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Advanced Find / Microsoft Office Excel static sheets	***	*	*
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Report Wizard	***	*	*
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)	*	***	**
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Report Builder	**	**	**
Microsoft Office Excel PivotTable	***	**	*
Custom report engine / Microsoft Office Snap-in	*	***	***
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services	*	***	***

Important to say that in «ease of use» in the table above I mean using a particular approach for creating a report (ie, efforts to create a new report), but not using it result.

10+ ways to create reports in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Vladislav Osmanov — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:24:14 +0000

There are many ways to get data for analysis in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. For all occasions. But needs, as known, can vary. In this article I'll try to describe the most common approaches for creating reports in CRM, and then give a comparative description of them (most likely there will be a separate post).

For convenience, the main approaches are grouped as follows:

Reports within Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports
Reports by Microsoft Office
Developing custom reports platform
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services reports

Solution Management in CRM5

Vladislav Osmanov — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:11:13 +0000

I keep on describing the innovations that are expected in the next version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Every company engaged in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM projects implementation, sooner or later faces the problem of different components and settings compatibility. There are many questions while migrating customization (system settings and components) from the test server to production environment.

Here are the most common issues:

«Swordfish» – Secure password storing in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Vladislav Osmanov — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:30:09 +0000

In response to the post "Password field" describing the script that hides user's password in the CRM record.

The current version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM does not support the so-called field level security - access rights management at the field-level. Security roles configured access to the entire entity. There are often situations where you want to protect or hide some fields from certain groups of users in CRM. For such cases, the best way is to add separated entity (it will keep the secret values), link it to the main entity, and grant permissions for privileged users in security roles.

The Revolutionary Five

Vladislav Osmanov — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:38:47 +0000

Two years have passed since Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 was released. This version replaced the previous 3.0, and has got wide prevalence and gained general acceptance. In 2010, Microsoft plans to release the next version of Dynamics CRM.

New releases of Microsoft products informally divided into the evolutionary and revolutionary. Evolutionary realeases fix functionality deficiencies, user interface, optimizes performance, while revolutionary releases include a significantly revised architecture of the product, changes in the API, and new features. Typically, evolutionary and revolutionary releases follow each other:

CRM 3.0 – revolutionary release for the previous version 1.2 (significant changes both in functionality and architecture of the product);
CRM 4.0 – evolutionary release (plug-ins model which have replaced the old callout approach does not count);
«CRM 5» – revolutionary release?

Rumours are about possibilities of «CRM 5» (the next version of CRM) have spreaded since early October 2008. Here is a list referred to innovations: