VPC Development Environment for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Projects

After collapse of my QA server, I have been searching for various developments environment options for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 projects. As per my findings and discussion with other peer developers, most of them are using Virtual PC images for their development tasks. This is also recommended by Microsoft and a download at Microsoft website [...]

Snap-ins for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0

Snap-in applications enable you and your people to work within the familiar environments of Microsoft Office applications, such as Microsoft Office Outlook, Word, Excel, and SharePoint Server. Microsoft Dynamics Snap is a collection of products for Microsoft Office 2003/2007 users to work with certain Microsoft Dynamics applications. Snap-ins allow Microsoft Office users to interact with [...]

MSCRM – External Connector License

Integrating your CRM system with external world is a tricky business.  For example if you need to gather customer information from your website and populate in your CRM system as leads you need an external connector license. This License is required to view, manipulate and query data by non-CRM user. 
If you want to share Microsoft [...]

Are you ready for daylight saving time changes?

This year, daylight savings time in the U.S. and Canada will start earlier (March 11, 2007) and end later than years past.  
You may face following problems in your MSCRM Server:

When you view appointments or tasks in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web client or in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM client for Microsoft Office Outlook, the appointments [...]

Callouts Vs Workflows?

Following guidelines can help you decide when to use a callout versus a workflow assembly:
Use callouts

 To alter data prior to submission to the platform.
 To take action after an update to an entity. (Workflow does not provide an easy trigger mechanism for the update event.).
When you need a synchronous transaction and an immediate response.
To take action [...]