I'm in New York City this week visiting a customer. Evidentially the hotel in which I'm staying has a quota of towels per room or per guest. You're given so many at the beginning of the week and they are removed as you use them. Not to be replaced by new towels at all.
I'm not […]
13 Dec
Posted by: mitch in: Customization, Dynamics CRM
While cleaning up the navigation at a customer installation today, we ran across something rather interesting. If you export the CRM SiteMap and look for any of the Quick Campaign entries, you will find the following:
<SubArea
Id="nav_minicamps"
ResourceId="Menu_Label_Mini_Campaigns"
DescriptionResourceId="Quick_Campaign_Description"
Icon="/_imgs/ico_18_minicamps.gif"
[…]
While on-site at a customer today saw a screen saver that said, "it is, what it is." That reminded me of a joke so old I can only remember part of the punch line:
I am, what I am
It is, what it is
I be, what I be
I think the first line was by Popeye, the Sailor […]
Just upgraded to the final version of Windows Live Writer and wanted to try out the Insert Map feature. Works pretty good.
Defined: to happen automatically, as if by magic.
Should I add this to Wikipedia?
Oops. Too late. Already in Wiktionary…
11 Dec
Posted by: mitch in: Dynamics CRM, Outlook Client
I have run into this several times recently and almost every time, there is a different cause.
The current situation happened at a customer where one user could not promote any emails into CRM, either from customer contacts or other CRM users.
Digging around a bit, I found this newsgroup thread with a mention of the following […]
Last night I was recuperating from a very late and very long business meeting by browsing through the Discovery/Science Channel/History Channel loop I have set as my favorites on my DVR when I ran across a short program on Robert H. Goddard, the father of rocketry.
I find his story fascinating because he actually conceived of the idea […]
Coppell tests the city-wide warning system ( sirens ) the first Wednesday of each month at Noon.
This followed at 12:00:15 by every dog in Coppell howling in reply. It sounded like a hunting-dog convention calling attendance…