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I am Sex On the Beach
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It turns out that if I was a drink, I would be the following:
You Are Sex On the Beach 
You really don't like the taste of alcohol – just its effect on you.
So, you're proud to get drunk on fruity, girly drinks.
Because once you're liquored up, the fun begins!As my friend Patrick says, "Yeah, Baby!"
Note: Click on the What Alcoholic Drink Are You? link to see what your own drink is.
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Dynamics CRM 3.0: Adding a user-friendly CRM URL
As you probably know by now, if you instructed the CRM installation application to create a new web site on which to host CRM, it will assign it the port 5555, which requires the users to type in a fairly complicated URL to access CRM: http://myserver:5555.
This exercise will solve that problem by creating a standard URL called CRM.
On the CRM Server, perform the following steps:
1) Open Internet Information Services Manager.
2) Double-click on the Web Server's name.
3) Double-click on Web Sites.
4) Right click on Microsoft CRM v3.0 ( which should be your CRM web site ).
5) Select Properties to display the web site properties dialog:
6) Click the Advanced button to display the Advanced Web Site Identification dialog:
7) Click the Add button to display Add/Edit Web Site Identification dialog.
8) In the TCP Port edit box, enter 80.
9) In the Host Header value edit box, enter crm. The dialog should look like:
10) Click OK, three times, then exit IIS Manager.
11) Launch the DNS Management console.
12) Double-click your main DNS server.
13) Double-click Forward Lookup Zones
14) Right-click your domain's internal address name.
15) Select New Alias (CNAME).
16) In the Alias name edit box, enter crm.
17) In the Fully qualified domain name edit box, enter the full path to your CRM Server, like this:
18) Click Ok.
19) Right-click on your main DNS Server name.
20) Select Clear Cache.
21) Close the DNS Manager.
That is pretty much it.
Final Note: You need to add http://crm to the Local Intranet zone for all CRM workstations. This can be done manually, or though an Active Directory Group policy.
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SQL Server 2000: Moving the default database directory
It came to my attention last week while planning a CRM SBE installation that we needed to place the CRM databases on a on the D: drive, instead of the current SQL configuration of C:.
After a bit of Googling, I discovered this is actually fairly easy, using the following procedure:
1) Start SQL Server Enterprise Manager.
2) Right-click on the SQL Server name.
3) Select Properties
4) When the SQL Server properties dialog displays, click on the Database Settings tab, as shown below:
5) Change the Default data directory and Default log directory to the new location on the new drive.
6) Click ok.
7) This information is stored in the Windows Registry and just to make sure that everything was set correctly, I stopped and restarted the SQL Server service.
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Dynamics CRM 3.0: Exchange Server Setup
The Microsoft Dynamics CRM team had a good article on the proper setup of Outgoing CRM email.
One additional step that needs to be performed if your Exchange Server is not on the same physical computer as CRM is to instruct the Exchange SMTP service to allow the CRM server to Relay outbound email through it.
Note: These steps mostly apply to CRM Professional installations where you are have decided to use a different server other than the CRM server to send outbound email.
A CRM SBE will have everything on one server so for normal SBE installations, this will not be an issue.
Background:As a security measure, Exchange 2003 does not allow other servers to relay SMTP email though its SMTP server unless specifically instructed to do so. This prevents unauthorized email traffic that can turn your Exchange server into a SPAM host.
The Procedure:
From the Exchange Sever, start the Exchange System Manager application and follow these steps:
1) Double-click on Servers
2) Double-click on the Exchange Server
3) Double-click Protocols
4) Double-click SMTP
5) Right-click on Default SMTP Virtual Server
6) Select Properties
7) Click the Access Tab
8) Click the Relay button
9) The Only the list below radio button should be checked, as shown below:
10) Add your CRM server's TCP/IP address to the list of Computers that are Granted Access.
11) Click OK.
12) Test by sending an email from the CRM web client to one of your test contacts.If you don't follow this procedure, the Exchange Server will simply ignore any outbound SMTP email from the CRM Server and no one will be notified.
Final Note:
If email is still not flowing, make sure your Exchange Server ( the computer account, itself ) is part of the PrivUserGroup that CRM created within Active Directory.
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