This morning I released a small utility to update additional birthday information for CRM Contacts.
During the process of creating this utility, I came upon an interesting design decision.
The original solution proposed by Microsoft was to create an Integer Attribute to track the birthday month for a Contact.  I felt that it was a little more [...]

Last year Phil Richardson and Ben Vollmer both posted solutions that would enable us to better track birthdays within CRM.  In May of 2007, the solution was added to the CRM How To series.
To review the situation we find that while Microsoft provided us with a Birthday Attribute on the Contact Entity it's really hard [...]