of the intelligence of corporate types.
The Tom Thumb grocery store here in Coppell, Texas just underwent a slight renovation.
Among other things, they replaced the photo-mat with a Startbucks coffee bar.
That in itself isn't necessarily a bad thing. The only issue is that if I walked out the front door ( the one on the right […]

If you would like to globally change the default View for an entity within CRM, perform the following steps from the CRM Web Client logged on as someone who has at least the System Customizer role:

Select Settings, Customization.
Edit the Entity you wish to change.
Select the Forms and Views page.
Click once on the View you wish […]

Have you ever downloaded an MSI installer package and just wanted to see what was in it or just wanted a single file from inside? Normally, you'd have to install the MSI and do your poking around afterwards. No longer
Scott Willeke has written a utility called Less MSIérables that will allow you to view and extract files from an MSI […]

Timing is everything and it turns out that a couple of the CRM Team have written articles that show two techniques that actually need to utilize on my current CRM gig.. 
Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie shows us how to call CRM web services from JavaScript:
Calling “CRM” Web services using JScript
and Michael Ott shows us how to execute a saved user […]

Update to the article I posted Saturday regarding a utility I released to edit CRM 3.0 Picklist options. 
Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi took me up on my request to create a solution in Excel to edit CRM Picklist options:
Using Excel to generate picklist XML for MSCRM
Excellent work Kjell!

Last week, while setting up a backup solution for a customer, I learned something interesting about the Windows XP Job Scheduler:
It will not run a scheduled job if the user has a blank password.
Yeah, I know, you shouldn't have a blank password anyway, but some people just don't want to fool around with passwords on […]

About a month ago, I had to create a new company and along with it, a new web site.  Since I've used FrontPage for simple web sites for quite a period of time, that is usually my first choice.
My idea was to get the site up and running so that I have a presence, then […]

The Microsoft ASP.NET team has released a new series of videos that show you how to implement various parts of the Atlas framework.
For those of you who are ASP.NET developers and haven't heard of Atlas, it is Microsoft's framework for integrating AJAX into ASP.NET.
Check it out, if you have not already.

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[ So have you ever wondered how many times Microsoft has to create new acronyms?  I bet someone get's paid for every new one they create. :) ]
Anyway, back to the topic at hand:
Managing SQL Server Objects
As I have written about in several articles here on my blog, I have been using SQLDMO to retrieve […]