Archive for May, 2006

You receive a "Cannot connect to the configuration database" error message when you connect to your Windows SharePoint Services Web site
I found something interesting this morning while working with STSADM.EXE to verify the installation of a web part package on Sharepoint Portal using the -enumwppacks command.
Every time I ran stsadm, I received the following error […]

Looking for beta testers

Afternoon Folks,
I have a small utility that allows you to enable or disable diagnostic tracing on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 without mucking around in the Registry. ( basically, it does the mucking for you. )
Through the end of May, I would like to find CRM developers, administrators, etc. that can help me test it. 
If you […]

I ran across a really cool article today when I was researching how redirect people from my domain's main page ( www. infinite-x.net ) to this blog, which is in a sub-site.
http://www.webworkshop.org/frontpage/page_redirect.htm

Mind Mapping Revisited

Since I wrote my last post on Mind Mapping, I decided to switch from Visio to a real mind mapping product, MindJet's MindManager, to see if it would make a difference in the way I planned my week, my work, etc. 
It has.
I found the mind mapping process to be very intuitive because I am a visual […]

Here is a strange little issue that you will run into when you run the Rule Deployment Wizard to place the CRM forwarding rule into each CRM user's mailbox.
At some point it will allow you to select the names of the people to deploy the CRM Rule to. When you click Next, it will do […]

A couple of months ago I installed the CRM 3.0 Outlook client on a Windows 2003 Terminal Server using the using the TS Client Deployment Kit.
As part of the configuration, you need to modify the command script ( terminstall.cmd ) that actually does the work. Here is a segment of the customization area:
REM *** Set below […]

Dynamics CRM Certification

Morning Folks,
Well, I took and passed the three CRM Certification tests over the past week: Applications, Customization, and Installation and Configuration.
Besides working daily with CRM since December, I used the Microsoft CRM Official course materials as study guides and they provided me with fairly ample reference for those CRM topics that I don't know like the […]

Blog comment changes

Greetings Folks,
Well, I had to move to only allowing registered users to leave comments because I was getting upwards of 80+ SPAMs per day.  Even though I get to moderate comments, it was making my administration duties overwhelming and I was worried that I may actually miss real comments and questions.
Have a good week.
Mitch

Microsoft Dynamics Team Blog

[via Freaky]
Today we are launching the Microsoft Dynamics Team Blog. You can find all sorts of articles and posts from the PM Team. Read more on there site and ofcourse add it to your CRM bookmarks.
http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/
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Their first article out of the shoot deals with CRM 3.0 Filtered Views.  Great work.