Greetings Everyone,
Microsoft has finally released an update for CRM 3.0 containing many of the hotfixes produced for CRM 3.0 since it shipped.
For more information, please visit:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922815
 
Thanks, Mitch

This utility is mostly used by organizations that run CRM Professional, since the Exchange email server can be located on a different server than the CRM Server. If you have not installed the SMTP mail service on the CRM Server and you do not wish it to perform outbound email functionality, you would use this […]

Occasionally, I need to stop all of the CRM services ( and web site ) so I can perform some type of update.  I got tired of doing this manually, and as an off-shoot of another project, I created a small utility that will start and stop the following CRM-related services:
The CRM Web Site
MSCRMBulkMailServiceMSCRMDeletionServiceMSCRMWorkflowServiceMSCRMFaxRouterServiceMSCRMExRouterService
 
CRM StartStop […]

I do a lot of server-based development with CRM and as a result, I am constantly turning on ( and off ) CRM diagnostic tracing to see what is happening behind the scenes.
If you would like to more about CRM's tracing feature, please review:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907490
A few months ago, I wrote ( and later rewrote ) a […]

Greetings everyone.
Well, I finally got around to finishing up the update to my company web site: CRM Accelerators
It has been quite an adventure.  As with most web sites, you can't see most of what I did.  I actually find it a bit irritating that I spent so much time on something that is really […]

I had the opportunity to visit with some friends that I hadn't seen in quite a while this evening.
Excerpts from our conversations:
From Ron, who has a new girlfriend:
If I can make it through the next several months alive, I'll probably settle down with this one.

 
From Jerry, after I told the introduction to a story of […]

Greetings Everyone,
I ran into an issue at one of my customers that someone on the CRM Newsgroup mentioned as well so I thought I'd see if anyone else had seen similar patterns.
Situation:
The initial download of CRM information to an Outlook client takes an extremely long time, fails with various errors, or locks up Outlook.
Configuration:
You have […]

I have a little tradition that I celebrate late in the evening of Thanksgiving day that I want to share with you.
Back in 2003, when I was still working at the Empire, I had a Thanksgiving from hell.
After a week from hell, backing up one of my teammates who had a customer with a Critical […]

I was working on a solution on my test system this morning and received the following error while attempting to send an email.

 
So, the question is: Which exactly was invalid?
My Visibility?
My Modification of said Visibility?
Or my access level that would not allow me to Modify my Visibility?
 
Those are all questions that I […]

If you ever run into a situation where the Outlook client is freezing during one of the Synchronization processes, here is a work around that will at least allow you to regain control of Outlook long enough to modify the settings.
If you carefully examine the following Windows Registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSCRMClient
You will find the settings that control […]