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 [...]

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) [...]

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: [...]

So I get in my truck to run an errand a bit ago and when I looked up at the built-in thermo-meter, it said 116 degrees.
Wow!
Knowing that it couldn't be that hot, I check weather.com when I got home and found that indeed, it was only 101 degrees.
And, since there is only 24% humidity, we [...]

My head hurts - mostly from banging it against the wall for the past three hours as I attempted to get SQLDMO to restore a full SQL backup to a completely new database.
You wouldn't think it was that hard, but unfortunately, everything has to be high on the very correct side in order for the Restore [...]

Some time last year I was out with my Dad trying to find a newborn calf so that we could verify its sex and put a tag in its ear for identification purposes.
When a cow has a calf, they will hide it to keep predators from finding it. This sometimes makes it rather difficult to find [...]

Greetings Folks,
I had what you might call a bit of a setback in both my personal and professional life a couple of weeks ago. My friend and business partner, Will Hadly, unexpectedly passed away on Father's Day from what the doctors called a heart "anomaly" ( which means they don't know what exactly happened ).
It's [...]

I went home to Arkansas 4th of July weekend to spend a little time with the folks.  My Dad, a retired farmer, still has a few cows to keep him entertained and occupied during the Winter months between quail hunting activities.
My 5-year old nephew loves to go see the cows, though he is more than [...]

I ran into a very strange issue last week at one of our local customers.
One of the users was receiving an error when she attempted to access the Workplace Reports group.
It turns out, that for some unknown reason, she was not part of the Active Directory security group ReportingGroup, which is used by CRM to [...]