So I've been setting here all afternoon heads-down in a project when I finally realize that I'm "uncomfortable" and need to take a walk down the hall to use the facilities.
Like most restrooms, the one's here in my office have an automatic air-freshener that periodically dispenses odor-fighting smell-good stuff.
In the men's room at least, the [...]

Greetings Everyone,
I added a new poll today to gauge interest in CRM 4.0:
When will you install CRM 4.0?

Immediately
3 months
6 months
12 Months
After hotfix rollup 1

 
The poll is located at the bottom of my blog's table of contents.
Thanks, Mitch
 
Note: I am seeing some type of bug with my Poll Control related to IE 7 on Vista, or [...]

Download here.
Thanks to Susan for the heads up.

While in New York a few weeks ago I was trolling through the TV stations when I hit upon a show on E! called, The Girls Next Door.  The show is about some of the Playboy Bunnies that live at the Mansion.
Hugh Hefner makes occasional appearances ( heck it's his house ) and I got [...]

Greetings Folks,
We have plans under way to start a CRM User's Group here in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.
If you would be interested in attending and/or participating, please send me an email:
    mitch at crmaccelerators dot net
and I'll add you to the notification list.
Thanks, Mitch

Well, at some point in your life, you finally start to get old and have to start doing stuff involving medical procedures.  As my friend Bruce R. said once, "You know you're getting old when you start standing around discussing what procedures you've had."  So true.
Anyway, I had my first colonoscopy on December 31st.  "Riding [...]

Kevin Collins, a friend at one of my partner companies, Integrated Data Architects, ran into an issue getting the Outlook client connected to their CRM server which is co-located at a site in Dallas.
CRM 4.0 now has something called an Internet Facing Deployment which is a new way of configuring CRM which came into play [...]

Ross at AdvantageWorks has written a very cool article on using SoundEx and duplicate detection within CRM 4.0.
Check it out.

I have been using the beta of Windows Live Writer since it was released and I noticed last week that they had finally reached a full release version a few weeks ago.
To be quite honest, it has totally changed my blogging habits.  I use the WordPress blogging engine and Windows Live Writer has made me [...]

For the second time, Microsoft has honored me with the Most Valuable Professional ( MVP ) Title for Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
This is still one of the coolest professional accomplishments of my career.